Jefferson and Jackson in the front seats: US foreign policies under Trump
Journal: Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Year: 2017

Donald Trumpâs foreign policy agenda has been characterized as unpredictable, unprecedented and â after a telling neologism of the president himself â unpresidented. In this blog post I will argue that the constituent parts of Trumpâs foreign policy are all but new. What is new is their combination. Moreover, while Trumpâs Jeffersonianism-Jacksonianism stands in stark contrast to the Wilsonianism-Hamiltonianism that Hillary Clinton embraced during her election campaign, it is only a pa