... work is properly cited. How did the US foreign policy establishment react to Trump's populism? Employing the concept of political trauma, this article highlights the emotional aspects of anti-populism. Biden's uneven process of foreign policy normalization illustrates the elites' struggle to ‘wash away...

... ambiguous foreign policies. This interplay is tested through an empirical analysis of US foreign policy and chemical warfare in Ukraine. Abstract This article revisits the concept of strategic ambiguity to identify and critically assess the overlooked role of international norms. Addressing a significant...

...Stefan Borg The extent to which the US foreign policy elite influences the making of foreign policy has become central to International Relations (IR) scholarship as it has grappled with the Trump administration. Traditionally, as Elizabeth Saunders has pointed out, IR theories have had a hard time...

...M L R Smith foreign policy analysis war US foreign policy military intervention grand strategy armed conflict Are western states on the brink of a third world war? The continuing Russia–Ukraine conflict; the Israel–Hamas war; instability in the Gulf and the wider Middle East; the possibility...

...Stéfanie von Hlatky; Émile Lambert-Deslandes Nuclear NATO WMD US foreign policy regional security EU defence policy The fourth variable we analyse is the public support (or lack thereof) for nuclear sharing within a host country. Like elite consensus, public support is a domestic-level...

... pouvoirs artificiel, et l'apparition de l'hégémonie américaine après la Seconde Guerre mondiale qui a engendré la pratique de contrepoids idéologique. balance-of-power hegemony international order balancing repertoires practices eighteenth-century Britain early Cold War US foreign policy equilibrio...

... Trump policy. It argues that assumptions about foreign policy and the methods for researching it need to be rethought when administration practices fall so far outside US foreign policy-making norms, particularly in an era when changes in United States domestic politics mean that the Trump...

... counterfactual methods for assessing the importance of individual differences between leaders and emphasizing their impact on international affairs. European security foreign policy international security Russia US foreign policy leader personality The united response by NATO allies to the February 2022...

... the United States should pursue thus help to establish organizing principles for evaluating the merits of specific foreign policy decisions ( Silove 2018 , 39–42). For example, the concept of containment anchored US foreign policy decision-making throughout most of the Cold War. Though leaders frequently...

... and the counterproductive limitation of options. As crisis unfolds, awareness of how gender can operate as a preemptive deterrent can serve to keep more options and negotiable details on the table. gender nuclear US foreign policy Cuba Cold War Over 40 years ago, the former US presidential adviser William Bundy...

...’. ¹⁷ Generally speaking, the grand strategy of deep engagement does not require the construction of new forms of international cooperation or attempts to promote global political change. Deep engagement thus excludes many of the most significant and most controversial US foreign policies...

... of international agreements have the potential to affect domestic ratification and vice versa. The making and execution of US foreign policy, in contrast to domestic policies, is also oftentimes less driven by direct legislation ( Chaudoin, Milner, and Tingley 2010 ). Looking at bipartisanship rates easily...

..., researchers and practitioners in security and intelligence, and scholars of American foreign relations. United States US foreign policy Biden CIA intelligence On 20 January 2021, Joe Biden became president of the United States, assuming responsibility for the largest and most well-financed intelligence...

... Woods past: a break that does not simply call for ‘leadership’ or ‘offshore balancing’ but addresses the psycho-social needs of the individual in liberal modernity. Classical realism liberal international order US foreign policy This article is situated in two debates: first, in the growing body...

... is the necessary first step in any process of repair towards a more just and viable politics. US foreign policy British foreign policy Arab Spring colonialism democracy promotion Orientalism Is there an academic–policy divide, and if so, does that gap need to be bridged? For decades, International Relations...

...Leonard August Schuette This article focuses on the often overlooked role of Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in explaining how NATO negotiated Donald Trump's presidency. It contributes to our understanding of US foreign policy and European security, provides theoretical insight into the agency...

... potential challenger to current threat. The smaller and more centralized fields in Australia and Britain feature fewer and less intense China-sceptical voices; responses have thereby remained largely pragmatic, despite worsening diplomatic relations in each case. US foreign policy British foreign policy...

... a latent capacity to balance. We probe our argument by examining US balancing strategy against China in the Asia–Pacific. Asia Great Powers International Relations theory international security Sino-American relations US foreign policy Throughout history, Great Powers have devised balancing strategies...

..., while Trump has arguably preserved the overall balance of strategic ambiguity, he has introduced greater volatility into cross-strait relations. US foreign policy China–Taiwan relations East Asia America has played a pivotal role in cross-strait relations since 1950, when President Truman sent the US...

... the Schuman Plan was a signature artifact. The paper explores the implications of this historical case for the further development of relational meso-level theories of hegemony. hegemony US foreign policy Schuman Plan The U.S. contribution to the origins of the Schuman Plan was vital. ( Gillingham 1991a...