A Populist Foreign Policy? The Impact of the Trump Presidency on the Transatlantic Relation. (January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bustinduy, Pablo
• Is Part Of: International studies. Volume 59:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 28
• Page End: 42
• Publication Date: 2022-01
• Subjects: Transatlantic relations -- foreign policy -- Trump -- populism -- globalization; International relations -- Periodicals; World politics -- Periodicals; National security -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; India -- Foreign relations -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1177/00208817221085423
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-8817

Abstract

In recent years, a considerable attention has been paid to changes introduced by the Trump administration in the general orientation of the US foreign policy. Using the transatlantic relation as a prism for analysis, this article assesses different interpretations of rupture and continuity in Trump's foreign policy. It does so by distinguishing two main theories of populism, as a political style and as a political logic, from which derive very different implications for the analysis of Trump's foreign policy legacy, the future of the transatlantic relation and the plausibility of a 'return to normalcy' at a time of deep crisis of globalization.