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This book investigates the drivers, tactics and strategy that propel the Trump administration's foreign policy. The key objective of this book is to look beyond the 'noise' of the Trump Presidency in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US foreign policy. It examines the long-standing convictions of the president and the brutal worldview that he applies to US foreign policy; and his hard-line negotiation tactics and employment of unpredictability to keep America's major foreign interlocutors off-guard, such as NATO members, China, Mexico, Canada, North Korea and Iran - each of which are considered here. In strategy terms, the book explains that the president is responding to a new multipolar structure of power by engaging a Kissingerian strategy that eschews liberal values and seeks to adjust great power relations in Washington's favour. By drawing upon a range of evidence and case studies, this book makes a number of compelling and provocative points to offer a new vector for debate about the workings, successes and failures, and ultimately the long-term implications for the world, of the Trump presidency.

Article 8 of the Lisbon Treaty stipulates that the EU should develop 'a special relationship with its neighbouring countries', which also includes the politically, economically, socially and culturally fragmented regions on the southern and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean that are fraught with tension. In the light of the aforementioned primary legislation, this anthology addresses the multifaceted question of whether or to what extent, based on the EU's values, it would be in the EU's interests to have a calming and stabilising effect on North Africa and the Middle East and how this could be achieved. In doing so, it analyses the upheaval in Arab states from a political and sociopolitical perspective, on the one hand, and discusses the EU's effects, its potential to influence treaties, economies, politics and society, and the role of Turkey, on the other.

"Iranian-born Shahram Chubin narrates the recent history of Iran's nuclear program and diplomacy, and argues that the central problem is not nuclear technology but rather Iran's behavior as a revolutionary state with ambitions that collide with the interests of its neighbors and the West"--Provided by publisher