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Foreign Policy Live

How to Navigate Trump’s Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

Politics, News Commentary, News

4601 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is moving rapidly to nominate loyalists to key administration positions. How much do these choices matter? And what do his personnel choices mean for our assessments of his foreign policy? Conservative scholar Kori Schake sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share what we might expect from a second Trump term. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Transcript: How Much Do Trump’s Personnel Choices Matter? FP Staff: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers Stephen M. Walt: The 10 Foreign-Policy Implications of the 2024 U.S. Election Kori Schake: North Korea Joining Russia’s War Is a Sign of Weakness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief. This is FP Live.

0:41.7

Welcome to the show.

0:43.6

We've had a few days now to digest the results of the U.S. election.

0:48.6

At FP, we're already turning our attention to what a second Trump term could mean for the world.

0:55.8

On Monday, Trump named Tom Homan as the new Borders'ar, ostensibly to carry out a mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

1:03.3

And he named Elise Stefaniq as his ambassador to the United Nations.

1:07.9

Stefanik, of course, is a New York representative who's been a staunch Trump loyalist

1:12.7

for years and made headlines for her interrogation of the presidents of elite colleges about

1:18.8

allegations of anti-Semitism on their campuses. Meanwhile, Trump ruled out two other names that had been

1:26.7

on our watch list, former CIA director

1:29.6

and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as well as his former UN ambassador, Nikki Haley.

1:36.4

The reason why we're looking at all of these names as closely as we are is that it might

1:42.1

give us a clue about the specifics of Trump's foreign

1:45.4

policy priorities in a second term. But beyond the names, there's also still a battle of

1:52.0

ideas, with scholars putting out visions for what a conservative foreign policy could or

1:58.2

should look like. My guest today is a former policymaker who's been making the case for what she calls

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