Speaker: Leonard Schuette, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program
This seminar explores the implications of the rise of the New Right for the future of U.S. grand strategy.
President Trump has broken the post–Cold War consensus on U.S. grand strategy but not provided a coherent alternative to liberal hegemony. As a result, the future of U.S. grand strategy is wide open.
Trump’s election victories have also transformed the political right in the United States and enabled the rise of a new intellectual elite opposed to traditional fusionist conservatism: the New Right. As Trump approaches the end of his political career, this group is increasingly emancipating itself from the U.S. president and busy crafting a post-Trump policy agenda, including on foreign policy.
Drawing on interviews with members of the New Right’s foreign policy community, Leonard Schuette identifies the contours of their emerging world view, places it into the wider context of U.S. foreign policy traditions, examines what, if anything, makes it distinct, and offers some tentative predictions what U.S. foreign policy could look like in the post-Trump era.
Admittance is on a first come–first served basis. Tea and Coffee Provided.
