The Trump and Harris Doctrines
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The 2024 U.S. presidential election will hinge on two very different basic approaches to domestic and foreign policy, two very different sets of underlying premises, and two very different types of presidential and high-level official personalities at the administrative helm putting them into effect. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is campaigning on a nationalist conservative preservation platform. It is a direct antithesis of the Biden-Harris- Waltz progressive transformation agenda. This volume comparatively analyzes the choices of presidential doctrine that are likely to define the principles, beliefs, and nature of U.S. foreign policy in the years following the election of either candidate and their vastly different agendas.
"Renshon, Suedfeld, and contributors do an excellent job of analyzing the different foreign policy assumptions and implications associated with the Trump and Biden presidencies at a time of deepening international crisis."
Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London
"I can think of no better book to objectively compare and contrast President Biden's foreign policy with that of the Trump administration. A very useful and fair-minded collection of essays containing a range of perspectives."
Colin Dueck, George Mason University
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"Renshon, Suedfeld, and contributors do an excellent job of analyzing the different foreign policy assumptions and implications associated with the Trump and Biden presidencies at a time of deepening international crisis."Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London
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I can think of no better book to objectively compare and contrast President Biden's foreign policy with that of the Trump administration. A very useful and fair-minded collection of essays containing a range of perspectives."
Colin Dueck, George Mason University
"Renshon and Suedfeld have produced an unmatched comparative study of the Trump and Biden national security doctrines and their underlying belief systems, personalities, leadership styles, advisory systems, and decision-making processes."
Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University
"The rich diverse list of the book's chapters covers comparatively and rigorously a robust range of foreign policy themes and geographic regions through the minds eyes of Presidents Biden and Trump."
Yaacov Vertzberger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Stanley Renshon is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School and University Center, USA, and a certified psychoanalyst. He is the author of over 100 professional articles and 18 books in the areas of presidential psychology and leadership, immigration and American national identity, and American foreign policy.
Peter Suedfeld is Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on resilience, decision-making and other psychological processes of people under stress in political and military leadership positions, extreme and unusual environments such as polar and space stations, and experiencing persecution and genocide. He is the co-editor with Stanley Renshon of two previous books, on the foreign policy doctrines of Presidents G.W. Bush and D.J. Trump.
Content
Part I. Comparing the Trump and Biden Doctrines: Frameworks of Analysis.- Chapter 1. Conservative American Nationalism vs. Progressive Internationalism: The Trump-Biden Foreign Policy Doctrines Compared (Stanley A. Renshon).- Chapter 2. The Trump and Biden Doctrines in Comparative Perspective (Robert S. Singh).- Chapter 3. Is the Biden Doctrine Obama Redux? (Henry R. Nau).- Section II. Comparing the Trump and Biden Doctrines: Historical and International Foundations.- Chapter 4. Explaining the Changing Biden Doctrine: From Defense Liberalism to Offensive realism (Benjamin Miller).- Chapter 5. International Organizations, Great Power Competition, and the U.S. Presidency: The Dilemma of China (James Jay Carafano).- Section III. Allies, Rivals and Enemies.- Chapter 6. International Relationships: How Presidents Trump and Biden Think and Feel About Other Countries (Peter Suedfeld).- Chapter 7. One Objective, Two Approaches: ComparingTrump's and Biden's China Policy (Zhiqu Zhu).- Chapter 8. Evolving Great Power Tensions Between the United States and Russia (James Goldgeier).- Chapter 9. An Offer They Can Refuse: Winning Friends and Fighting Enemies in Iran (Ze'ev Maghen).- Chapter 10. Still a Special Relationship? The Effect of the Administration Change on the U.S.-Israel Relationship (Amnon Cavari).- Section IV. Comparing Trump and Biden in Practice.- Chapter 11. Beneath the Public Persona: The Real Psychology of the Biden Presidency (Stanley A. Renshon).- Chapter 12. The Biden and Trump Foreign Policies: Comparing Differing Approaches to the Use of Force and Diplomacy (Thomas Preston).- Chapter 13. Facing a Dangerous World: A Comparison of the Trump and Biden Doctrines (Lawrence A. Kuznar).- Chapter 14. The Inward Turn: Public Opinion, Internationalism, and The Biden Doctrine (Douglas C. Foyle).- Chapter 15. Open Borders and National Sovereignty: The Trump and Biden Immigration Doctrines in Comparative Perspective (Jessica Vaughan).