BISA 2021 conference - Forget International Studies?

Winning and Losing in US Foreign Policy

23 Jun 2021, 11:00

1h 30m

Room 4

US Foreign Policy Working Group

Description

Donald Trump's foreign policy narrative focused on questions of 'winning' vs 'losing', and regularly invoked tropes of national humiliation. This panel examines those narratives, and asks how we should understand Trump's and Biden's foreign policy approaches.

Subcontributions

• President Biden's Burden: Undoing Trumpism in an Age of Uncertainty
• Trump, the Realist
• Populism and the Affective Politics of Humiliation Narratives
• Challenges of Legitimation: Winnability in the American Way of War and the War on Terror