President Donald Trump´s Foreign Policy after two years – Analysis, Assesment and Implications - Einzelansicht

The Course will be taken in english Language and as a Block-Seminar.

Scope of this Course is a thorough analysis and assessment of President Donald Trump’s  foreign policy for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world after his second year in the White House. What are the implications for the Transatlantic-Relationship and especially for the German-American partnership? What’s behind Trump’s ”trade-war” against China? And why is the American President so ambivalent towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin? Furthermore this Seminar will compare Trump’s with Obama’s policy towards Syria, will  examine the new ”honeymoon” between Washington and Pyongyang and Washington and Riyadh, and will analyze the delicate new US unilateral initiative towards Israel and Palestine. Finally the question arises whether President Trump’s doctrine of ”America First”and ”America Alone” means the end of Washington’s ”global leadership”-role and whether Beijing is about to replace Washington as a ”global power”.

Richard Haass: A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, New York 2017,

Stephen E. Ambrose / Douglas Brinkley: Rise to Globalism. American Foreign Policy since 1938, New York 2010

oral presentation and paper