Trump’s nationalism contradicted US multilateral hegemony strategy but kept its coercive core.
Evidence
Trump abandoned the project of superintending global capitalism through multilateral institutions and alliances for a project of US nationalism. This meant abandoning some, but certainly not all, multilateral deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. To maintain hegemony in the MENA region, Trump supported Israel and Saudi Arabia as counterweights to Iran and gave a green light to the use of military means to shore up their interests. He escalated Obama’s drone war and Special Forces operations as the principal means for neutralizing non-state threats like al-Qaeda and ISIS. He took this several steps further by carrying out extrajudicial assassinations of state leaders such as Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine operations. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 518
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- Trump kept US hegemony aims while ditching multilateral institutions for nationalism (similarity 0.93)
- Trump’s foreign policy abandoned the bipartisan liberal-hegemony consensus for unilateral nationalist imperialism. (similarity 0.82)
- US foreign policy pivots were derailed by Middle East crises. (similarity 0.81)
- Trump’s foreign policy swapped liberal for illiberal hegemony while keeping empire (similarity 0.80)
- Post-Cold War US imperial consensus traded liberal veneer for white nationalism under Trump. (similarity 0.80)
- Trump’s America First foreign policy was illiberal hegemony, not isolationism. (similarity 0.79)
- Clash-of-civilizations ideology animated the Trump administration’s core policies (similarity 0.78)
- Trump continued rather than ended the war on terror in three countries (similarity 0.78)