Does the Republican Party Have a Foreign-Policy Vision?

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Republican Party is clearly divided on Ukraine, as recent votes in Congress have underscored. But beyond that, is it more united on foreign policy than we imagine? A new book argues just that. Matthew Kroenig is an FP columnist and a co-author of We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War. He joins FP Live to discuss what a Trump 2.0 foreign policy might look like and who would be at its helm. Suggested reading: Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea: Republicans Are More United on Foreign Policy Than it Seems Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig: Are Both U.S. Parties Divided on Foreign Policy? Stephen M. Walt: Another Trump Presidency Won’t Much Change U.S. Foreign Policy Ravi Agrawal: Does Trump Have a Foreign-Policy Vision? For more podcasts, check out the latest episode of Disorder, 'How Small States Can Save the World,' featuring Former President of Armenia Dr Armen Sarkissian: https://linktr.ee/disorderpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	So last weekend and back-to-back votes in Congress,
0:45.9	the House finally approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
0:53.5	As it happened, a majority of Republicans voted against
0:57.4	aid to Ukraine, but it wasn't enough to prevent the first major tranche of assistance to Kiev since
1:03.4	2022 when the Republican Party won back control of the House. It is clear for all to see that the GOP is divided on Ukraine. But if you
1:14.7	would leave that one issue aside for just a minute, is there a broader Republican foreign policy
1:21.8	today? And if Donald Trump wins the presidency this November thought that we really must contend with,
1:28.7	which advisors will have his ear on foreign policy issues? My guest today has spent a lot of time
1:34.5	thinking about the GOP's foreign policy. Matthew Kronig is the co-author of a new book,
1:40.0	We Win, They Lose, Republican foreign policy and the New Cold War.
1:45.6	In that book, he and Dan Negra make the case that outside of Ukraine,
1:50.0	there is actually a lot of unity within the Republican Party on foreign policy.
1:55.6	They're trying to lay claim to interpreting the foreign policy legacy of Trump 1.0 and to propose what a 2.0 policy
2:05.3	should look like. Where they've landed broadly is what they're calling a Trump-Ragan fusion.
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