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Title American Exceptionalism During Donald Trump Administration: Prospects and Challenges

Author(s) Sadaquat Hussain

Abstract American exceptionalism is a notion, ideology, theory and national creed that are adhered to by the American nationals and play a key role in informing their world view. This study highlights the nuances between different conceptions of American exceptionalism and its role in shaping of American foreign policy and discusses the impact of Donald Trump’s ideology and actions on the liberal internationalist conception of exceptionalism before delving into the nature of exceptional foreign policy and discussing the prospects and challenges facing American exceptionalism.. American Exceptionalism stands for the idea that the United States because of its unique history, culture, religious roots and nationality formation process is exceptionally unique and morally superior to other nations. This special place is understood to be demanding of a special leadership role that the American Nation should play in order to provide others with the benefits of their supreme socioeconomic and political systems by ensuring their adoption worldwide. Donald Trump with his unique view on American exceptionalism contested the popularly held liberal exceptional view and promised change in both domestic and foreign policies. This study delves into the nature and consequences of Trumpian foreign policy in order to gauge its impact on exceptionalism and its liberal internationalist variant. The study found that American Exceptionalism plays a major role in shaping of American foreign policy and that the American foreign policy is most likely to retain its nature in the future although its liberal internationalist facet faces many endogenous as well as some exogenous challenges like the rise of China and the prevalence of global nationalist populism and Donald Trump is more of an indicator of the endogenous challenges stemming from currents within the American society, than the architect of these challenges.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department International Relations

Language English

Publication Date 2024-08-28

Subject International Relations

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