Donald Trump: The Making of a World View

'The unthinkable has happened: Donald Trump is now President of the United States. This short book uses his lifeworld and his own language to do so, and offers an insightful and compelling account of his world view, and especially his view of foreign affairs. - Alex Callinicos, Socialist Worker, 'The most comprehensive account yet of Trump's thinking over the years.' - Paul D. But it makes more sense to understand him. It is highly critical of the dominant US global strategy since 1945 of building and maintaining a liberal capitalist international order'. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Trump presidency and what it means for the rest of us.' - Sir Christopher Clark, author of Sl

"Very interesting!" according to A. M. Yeater. I loved reading it. Lots of good stuff.. Instant and powerful illumination AdamT Highly recommend this study of the "development" of Trump's foreign policy world view by Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms (both at Cambridge). I put "development" in scare quotes because a key part of their argument is to show that Trump's vision has NOT essentially changed since the 1980s. Indeed, in an interesting but surely key move, they argue that his most basic vision originates in his childhood in the solipsistic "who. Ionut Popescu said Very insightful and entertaining read!. An excellent book all-around. Both critics and supporters of Trump have a lot to learn from this extensive examination of his pronouncements over the decades. The authors, both respected scholars, provide an objective view of the origins of Trump's worldview, and summarized it in this short, very readable book.

It has been claimed that Trump's foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent and that they were improvised on the campaign trail. Now that Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth, Americans and non-Americans alike have been left wondering what this will mean for the world. It shows how that world view was formed, what might result if it is applied in policy terms and the potential consequences for the rest of the world.. Yet, after decades of dismissing America's leaders as fools and denouncing their diplomacy, Trump must now prove that he can do better. For the new President, almost every international problem that has confronted the United States c

Brendan Simms is Professor in the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Armenia, Humanitarian Intervention and the Search for an Anglo-America Alliance.. He is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat