Comparative Analysis of US Presidents' Barak Obama and Donald Trump Foreign Policies
The policies formed by US leadership play a vital role in establishing US hegemony all over the world. The foreign policy of a state made according to the national interest. A rational decision of a leader plays a vital role in the effectiveness of the foreign policy. The challenges faced by Barack Obama in 2008 were somehow different from the challenges faced by Trump in 2016. The comparative analysis of both foreign policies would make it easy to determine the right and wrong decision taken by both leaders. The changing circumstances of the world would be identified through this research paper. The world is moving towards multipolarity, and somehow the decisions taken by Trump after his incumbent of office had the worst impact on US foreign policy because Trump was trying to isolate the US from world affairs, including trade and security.
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Comparison, US, Foreign Policy, Barak Obama, Donald Trump
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(1) Sadia Fayaz
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Nasrullah Khan
Assistant Professor, Poonch University Kahuta Campus, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
Populism in the United States: Binary Constructions by Donald Trump in the Domestic and Foreign Policies
This study intends to explore the rise of Donald Trump to the White House. Why was Donald Trump considered a populist leader, and how did his populist rhetoric and actions impact the contours of American domestic and foreign policies? The study adopted qualitative exploratory and explanatory research techniques. Specific methods utilised to conduct the study remained political personality profiling. It finds that the populist leaders construct the binaries in the society by dividing the nation into two groups: 'us' the people, against 'them' the corrupt elite or other groups presented as a threat to the lives and livelihood of the nation. Though populism as a unique brand of politics remained active through most of the US history, yet these were only two occasions that populists were successful in winning the American presidential elections -Andrew Jackson in 1828 and Donald Trump in 2016. Structural and historical reasons became the biggest cause behind the election of Donald Trump, who successfully brought a revolution in American domestic and foreign policies. And if structural issues in the United States are not addressed, there is a clear chance that Trump - who is not withering away- will come back to contest and challenge any competitors in the 2024 presidential elections.
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Populism, Jacksonianism, Donald Trump, American First, the US Versus them, Free Riders
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(1) Muhammad Nadeem Mirza
Faculty Member, School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Lubna Abid Ali
Dean, Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defence University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Irfan Hasnain Qaisrani
Faculty Member, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan.