RSIS Seminar Series on Understanding the Contemporary United States by Dr Adam Garfinkle

Contrary to most opinion in the Western world and in U.S. academia, the problem with the Trump foreign policy is not its rejection of multilateralism and the so-called international community.  It is rather its failure to use diplomacy and, above all, its consistent signaling of policy incoherence and  irresolution to use U.S. power in reliable and constructive ways.