The Center Cannot Hold: Continuity and Change in Donald Trump's Foreign Policy

As we look towards the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's election, something momentous is happening to America's relationship with the world. Or is it? Are we in a moment of continuity or change in American foreign policy? The administration's politics and policies inflame an impassioned debate on this question — scholars, pundits, and wonks remain divided. One broad camp argues that Trump has set U.S. foreign policy on a radically different, even revisionist, course that is likely to rock the foundations of the postwar liberal international system. The other calls foul, contending that despite its boisterous disorganization, the administration's playbook and agenda are largely traditionalist. Notably, the continuity-change debate is not political partisanship as usual. Conservatives seem to disagree with themselves about Trump at least as much as with liberals....