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Donald Trump: The Making of a World View Paperback – September 26, 2017

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On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. 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 has been claimed that Trump's foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent and that they were improvised on the campaign trail. However, drawing on interviews from as far back as 1980, Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms show that this assumption is dangerously false. They reveal that Trump has had a consistent position on international trade and America's alliances since he first considered running for president in the late 1980s. Furthermore, his foreign policy views have deep roots in American history. For the new President, almost every international problem that has confronted the United States can be explained by the mistakes of its leaders. Yet, after decades of dismissing America's leaders as fools and denouncing their diplomacy, Trump must now prove that he can do better.Over the past three decades, he has been laying out in interviews, articles, books and tweets what amounts to a foreign policy philosophy.
This book reveals the world view that Trump brings to the Oval Office. 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.

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"Donald Trump: The Making of a World View is a must read for anyone who wants to understand what this president is driving."

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"…a scholarly work that lives up to its title. Donald Trump: The Making of a World View is neither pro-Trump nor anti-Trump; rather, it presents a balanced, serious-minded analysis of how Trump views international trade […] Highly recommended."

(Andy Jordan, The Midwest Book Review, August 2017)

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Charlie Laderman is Lecturer in International History at King's College London and a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Armenia, Humanitarian Intervention and the Search for an Anglo-America Alliance.Brendan Simms is Professor in the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, and Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ I.B. Tauris (September 26, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1788310489
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1788310482
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.58 x 0.57 x 8.01 inches

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IlanaWD

Learning more about the current US politics

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2017

This book helps to get the background information about the roots of the foreign policy opinions of pres. Trump, based on his earlier public positions and the international context he grew up in. Particularly relevant is his position on Iran, possibly an echo on the US hostages crisis in Iran and the further oil crisis. It is based on interviews and media coverage going back into the 1980s. A good read for anyone interesting to better understand current US politics and the possible evolutions during Trump presidency.
Disclaimer: Book offered by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

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Anne Y

Very interesting!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2017

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I loved reading it. Lots of good stuff.

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AdamT

Instant and powerful illumination

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2017

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 lost China" discourse of the 1950s:

"As Brogan noted, many Americans held to “the illusion that any situation which distresses or endangers the United States only exists because some Americans have been fools or knaves.”[ 2] Donald Trump was a child of the 1950’ s and, just as his domestic agenda is a nod to that era’s vision of the American Dream, his worldview reflects the mentality that Brogan identified. For Trump, almost every international problem that besets the United States is explained by the idiocy of its leaders."

They then go on to show how Trump's basic framework was elaborated in the 1980s in conventional critiques of the period of European and Japanese free riding. From the early 2000s he then substituted China for Japan as the Asian boogey man.

The book is also extremely useful in pinpointing how late in the day, from 2010 onwards, Trump began to assemble some of his other opinions i.e. hostility to Obama, politicized hostility towards migrants (as opposed to common or garden racism), fondness for Putin.

Seeing Trump as basically locked in an endless replay of the 1980s I think is an important key to understanding his domestic policy as well. He never got over the first traumatic impact of globalization. Or that era's backlash politics.

Simms and Laderman are well known as exponents of a grand strategic approach to history and if you like this you may also like the short essay by Hal Brands and Colin Kahl. Brands at least shares with Laderman a Yale connection.

Trump’s Grand Strategic Train Wreck
As to Charlie and Brendan's book I should admit that they are old friends. But their book really is an impressive demonstration of how valuable it can be to perform the basic operation of reading everything someone said in chronological order. Instant and powerful illumination!

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Ionut Popescu

Very insightful and entertaining read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2017

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.

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C.D. Ewing

I highly recommend this short book for anyone who wants to understand ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2017

I highly recommend this short book for anyone who wants to understand Donald Trump on his own terms and in his own words. Written by two respected young historians, this book is an accessible and thorough investigation into his thinking over the last thirty years--indispensable and important read.

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Timely and unsettling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2017

Timely and unsettling...highly recommend to anyone trying to understand today's political climate.

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Well worth reading on a Sunday afternoon

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2017

What a wonderfully insightful and thoughtful work - thank you . Bravo to you both.

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Lorraine

It only reinforces the questionable sanity of the American Confederates ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 14, 2017

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It only reinforces the questionable sanity of the American Confederates who elected him as President. Being Canadiank, I had never paid much attention to his rantings prior to the electoral race but I'm certain the majority of U.S. Citizens were - and I guess they got what they deserved. Unfortunately for the rest of the world which will also suffer the consequences.

Margaret Petrie

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 4, 2017

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Really don't know yet bought as a Christmas present..I know the subject matter will be interesting!!

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 25, 2018

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David Webb

Bumpy ride ahead ... best read this book to work out what's going on!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 2, 2017

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This is an excellent short book by the two historians. It's not for those who love Donald Trump, or for those who hate him ... it's for those who wish to understand where he's coming from, and the potential implications for geopolitical relations across the world. Behind the bluster of the 2016 campaign, and the fireworks of the first 10 days of his presidency, there is - the book shows - a remarkable consistency of view going back 30 years and more. And as the authors point out, someone of 70 who's held those views for 30 years is unlikely to change them much now (especially someone with such supreme confidence in his own ability).

These are dangerous times (always have been of course), and the Trump era brings risks of new conflicts, and escalation of existing ones. This book is an essential guide for those from other nations who need to engage with the US administration, or assess its likely position.

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Luffdog

A real insight into Trump and what's next....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 30, 2017

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An amazing read, wasn't sure when I brought it but now fully understand some of the key themes and why Trump has, and is making, interesting national and international decisions. Such as the 'CNN effect' and 'global superintendent'. An excellent read for all interested in polictics to really understand why Trump views the world as he does and what he might do next. Get yourself a copy! You won't regret it

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