From tariffs, to foreign aid, to Greenland, and many other issues, the world looks different than under earlier presidential administrations. What is less clear is what this means for the United States today and the world going forward. This discussion was led by Political Science Professor John Dietrich.
President Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda
Donald Trump's Positions- Council on Foreign Relations
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions- Council on Foreign Relations
Donald Trump: Foreign Affairs- Miller Center
The Foreign Policy-First President? US external action under Trump 2.0 – in data- EU Institute for Security Studies
Transactional Leadership
Trump says US received over 80M barrels of oil from Venezuela- News Nation Now
Centralizing Power in Executive Branch
How checks and balances are factoring into Trump's second term- CBS News
Reshaping World Order
Is Trump reshaping the world order?- Brookings Institute
Here’s Why the U.S. Is No Longer the World’s Only Superpower- Washington Institute
Changing Republican Party
How Trump Has Changed The Republican Party- NPR
President Trump again is remaking the Republican Party- NPR
The New GOP Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA- Manhattan Institute
Iran Nuclear
Trump keeps world waiting on his plans for Iran after State of the Union- BBC
Trump Should Take the U.S. Military’s Warning on Iran Seriously- CFR
Definition of War
Merriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war
Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/law-of-war/Legally-defining-war
UN Charterhttps://www.undrr.org/understanding-disaster-risk/terminology/hips/so0101
Intermestic Policy Initiative
About the Intermestic Policy Initiative- Foreign Policy For America
Immigration
Net Negative Immigration-Census Bureau
Tourism Implications Low Immigration- Brookings Institute
White South African Farmer Genocide- 60 Minutes
Tariffs
What are tariffs?- Council on Foreign Relations
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Origins, Evolution, and Use (IEEPA)
Supreme Court Decision regarding tariffs- SCOTUS Blog
The Supreme Court Clipped Trump’s Tariff Powers—and Opened New Trade Battlefronts- CFR
Trump trims some tariffs after Supreme Court loss but keeps trade fight alive- Fox News
Israel/Board of Peace
Trump heads to Georgia after securing Board of Peace pledges for Gaza relief funds- AP News
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and the multilateral order- Brookings Institute
Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner presents her medal to Trump- BBC News
Trump 2.0 Appointments and Advisors
Tracking President Trump’s second-term Cabinet and appointees- Brookings Institute
How Rubio became Trump's minister of many hats- Axios
The Key Foreign-Policy Players of Trump 2.0- Foreign Policy
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