American Exceptionalism in the Age of Trump’s America First Foreign Policy: Is Donald Trump the First Anti-exceptionalist POTUS?

Abstract

This paper examines American exceptionalism from both a theoretical perspective and from its resonance in contemporary US foreign policy. Thus, it reviews the key conceptual aspects of American exceptionalism, analyzing its different interpretations within a framework of the main US foreign policy currents. Using this theoretical basis, it explores the practical influence of exceptionalism in the foreign policy of Donald Trump, who has been considered by some critics as the first anti-exceptionalist POTUS.

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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Politics, Power, and Institutions

KEYWORDS

US Foreign Policy

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