Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?

A lot of labels have been applied to Trump’s foreign policy approach. America First, Isolationist, transactional, imperialist, protectionist. “I’m a nationalist and a globalist” he told the Wall Street Journal during his first term.

In his inaugural address last month, Trump made comments suggesting his foreign policy will be characterized by restraint, saying, in part, success should be defined by the “wars we never get into.”

Yet in the same address, he also said, the United States will take back the Panama Canal.

In his first campaign, Trump ran on the idea that the cycle of the United States intervening in the Middle East should come to an end.

And on Tuesday of this week, he said that the U.S. will “take over” the Gaza Strip, after relocating the Palestinians, who live there.

Trump has promised a new approach to American foreign policy. Is there a Trump Doctrine? And what is it?

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