Abstract:
Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, entered the White House with
a very different agenda and sought to redefine the pattern of US action and engagement in
the international sphere. While rejection of Obama's policies, Trump has sought to
alteration the US foreign policy and security strategy at almost all levels, and in this
pathway has sought to change the strategic mechanisms of the United States. The present
paper, through a brief review of the US National Security Strategy during Barack Obama's
presidency, discusses the most significant signs of a possible transformation in the US
National Security Strategy in the coming years. This survey is based on reports, documents
and white House new president and decision makers speech. The main question of the
present article is what features of the Trump National Security Strategy in the coming years
differentiate from Obama's strategy in 2008-2016, And its initial hypothesis focuses on the
formulation of a national security strategy in a different framework than Obama's
multilateralism, mainly as a form of moderate unilateralism, and based on ambiguous
politics and, in particular, the Madman theory of Henry Kissinger as the main difference
between Obama's declared strategy.
Machine summary:
Trump and the Perspective of the US National Security Strategy; the Transition from Multilateralism to Unilateralism Soheil Goodarzi - PhD Student of International Relations, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Ahmad Soltaninejad- Assistant Professor of International Relations, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Mostafa Zahrani- Associate Professor of International Relations, School of International Relations, Tehran, Iran Mohsen Eslami- Assistant Professor of International Relations, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Received: 02/03/2017 Accepted: 17/10/2017 Abstract Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, entered the White House with a very different agenda and sought to redefine the pattern of US action and engagement in the international sphere.
For example, Bush's failure to achieve the goals sought by unilateral measures, the crisis in the global economy, and the need to rebuild the 212 Geopolitics Quarterly, Volume: 13, No 4, Winter 2018 United States in the world, and specifically in the Muslim world, have contributed to the transformation of Obama's strategy of national security and multilateralism with The supremacy of the deterrence and political processes replaced the unilateralism of neoconservative hegemonic actions(Mahmoudi, 2010).
Moreover, the examination of the national security strategy and even beyond the security perspective governing the decision making of the new US government is more difficult than its predecessors; the denial of the conventional structure and mechanisms of politics in the United States by Trump is probably the main factor that has made his foreign and security policy unclear, and the observers can’t talk about them 218 Geopolitics Quarterly, Volume: 13, No 4, Winter 2018 confidently(McAdams, 2016).