Anti-populism and the Trump trauma in US foreign policy

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ID3694473
AutoresRubrick Biegon (0000-0003-4337-809X), Soraya Hamdaoui (0000-0003-0316-787X)
Año2024
Volumen100
Número5
Páginas1857-1875
Fecha de publicación2024-09-09
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiae174
OpenAlexW4402379652
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

In challenging normal patterns of foreign policy legitimation and undermining the internationalist consensus in favour of liberal hegemony, Donald Trump's populism constituted a political trauma for the foreign policy establishment (FPE) of the United States. How did the FPE respond? Based on a discursive approach and using the methodology of qualitative frame analysis, we examine the anti-populist response to the Trump trauma on the part of the FPE. The findings show how the FPE framed Trumpian populism as a political anomaly through interlocking frames of authoritarianism, irresponsibility and immaturity. This could only be rectified through a process of foreign policy normalization, carried through the first two years of the Joe Biden administration, which aimed to stabilize US leadership and restore the consensus that existed prior to the populist disruption. Highlighting the emotional dimensions of anti-populism, the article contends that to fully understand the effects of global populism, we must examine elite responses to populist 'ruptures' of the kind Trump represented. By extending the concept of anti-populism to debates on foreign policy, the article addresses existing gaps in the literatures on anti-populism and the effects of populist foreign policy

Economics · Foreign policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Global Political and Economic Relations · International Relations and Foreign Policy · International Relations in Latin America · Law

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