Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Murnane, John R

Titel

Let's Not Get Distracted by "Shiny Objects," President Trump's "America First" Foreign Policy is Out of Sync with the Problems of the 21st Century

Ist Teil von

• American diplomacy, 2017-03, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill: American Diplomacy Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During his first 10 days in office, he cancelled the Trans-Pacific Partnership; issued a ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries; engaged in a blustery exchange on Twitter with Mexico's president over the construction of the wall (the new American president even threatened to slap a 20% tariff on Mexican goods in order to pay for a wall likely to cost billions of dollars); and sent out a twitter message aimed at Iran, saying Iran was "formally PUT ON NOTICE for firing a ballistic missile."vi Trump's isolationist impulses along with his blatant disregard for international cooperation is certainly at odds with the American approach to world affairs over the last 70 years. Since the Great Depression and World War Two, American foreign relations and trade policies have been based on the acknowledgment that the U.S. has too much at stake in the world to turn inward. Since 1945 Americans have diligently worked for "free trade" and a reduction of trade barriers and tariffs, believing that a rising tide lifts all boats when it comes to economic growth.