Blessing America First
Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2024
320 pages
978-0-231-55701-6 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on first-hand experience in the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administration's populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
7 b&w illustrations
7 b&w illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-231-55701-6 (9780231557016)
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Blessing America First
Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
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09/2024
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Blessing America First
Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
Book
09/2024
Columbia University Press
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Person
David T. Buckley is the Paul Weber Endowed Chair of Politics, Science, and Religion in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville, where he also directs the Center for Asian Democracy. He is the author of Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Columbia, 2017).
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Religion and Foreign Policy: Statecraft and Populist Governance
1. What Does Populism Have to Do with Religion and Foreign Policy?
2. The Blob Gets Religion: RGA and the Prepopulist Equilibrium
Part II. The Populist Difference
3. "The Faith of the Administration": Populist Ideology, Religion, and Foreign Policy
4. Who Needs an Office? Populist Personalism and Religion in the Bureaucracy
Part III. Preexisting Conditions and Populist Constraint
5. Faith in a Deep State? Bureaucratic Preservation in a Populist Transition
6. Salvation in Institutions? American Secularism, Executive Power, and Populist Change
7. A Faithful Audience? Public Opinion and Trump's Religious Foreign Policy
Part IV. Effects Beyond the Populist
8. Faithful Partners: Religious Populism and International Ties
Conclusion: Religion and Foreign Policy After Populism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part I. Religion and Foreign Policy: Statecraft and Populist Governance
1. What Does Populism Have to Do with Religion and Foreign Policy?
2. The Blob Gets Religion: RGA and the Prepopulist Equilibrium
Part II. The Populist Difference
3. "The Faith of the Administration": Populist Ideology, Religion, and Foreign Policy
4. Who Needs an Office? Populist Personalism and Religion in the Bureaucracy
Part III. Preexisting Conditions and Populist Constraint
5. Faith in a Deep State? Bureaucratic Preservation in a Populist Transition
6. Salvation in Institutions? American Secularism, Executive Power, and Populist Change
7. A Faithful Audience? Public Opinion and Trump's Religious Foreign Policy
Part IV. Effects Beyond the Populist
8. Faithful Partners: Religious Populism and International Ties
Conclusion: Religion and Foreign Policy After Populism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
