Strategic Implications of Donald Trump’s Election"

This paper offers a general outline of Trump’s approach to foreign policy looking at his core beliefs regarding US military posture and interventions, alliances and free trade arrangements and at his “transactional” approach to international politics. It then assesses the potential trajectory of Trump’s foreign policy toward Russia and NATO, in the Middle East and in East Asia. How the United States, under Trump’s presidency, will respond to the security challenges in these regions, and will shape the patterns of cooperation and competition therein, is likely to shape the future prospects of American primacy in world politics.