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Is America Becoming Isolationist?

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ annual survey of American voters shows that for the first time in nearly 50 years, a majority of Republicans prefer an isolationist approach to foreign policy. Before the Trump presidency, the Republican Party was more likely to support an active U.S. presence in the world. Former U.S. ambassador to NATO and the CEO of the Chicago Council Ivo Daalder joins Ravi Agrawal to discuss the survey and what it could mean for the 2024 election. You can listen to Daalder’s podcast, “World Review,” here. Suggested reading: Survey: Majority of Trump Republicans Prefer the United States Stay Out of World Affairs Edward Alden: A Self-Absorbed America Means Disorder for the World Doug Klain: How Europe Can Prepare for a Second Trump Term—Now Anna Merlan: Trump’s International Fan Club Descends on Maryland For more podcasts, check out: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrual, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

0:40.2

Welcome to the show.

0:42.1

A recent survey of U.S. foreign policy reveals a startling change.

0:46.9

For the first time, in nearly five decades, a majority of Republicans say the United States

0:53.7

should stay out of world affairs rather than play an active role in it.

0:59.0

The Chicago Council survey conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that the shift was led primarily by so-called Trump Republicans,

1:08.9

the 47% of Republicans who hold a very favorable view of Donald Trump.

1:15.2

Now, debates about America's role in the world are hardly new, nor is the argument that Washington

1:21.6

would be better off focusing on domestic issues. What seems new, however, is the concentration of people who hold those views

1:31.3

not only in one party, but specifically within the pro-Trump wing of the GOP. I wanted to explore

1:39.4

this week how that change has taken place, and with that, what impact it's already had and will have

1:46.5

on U.S. foreign policy? Well, my guest this week is Evo Dahlder. He's the CEO of the Chicago

1:53.1

Council on Global Affairs, which conducted the survey. He's also a former U.S. ambassador to NATO.

2:00.0

So we also spent some time looking at the state of the war

2:03.0

in Ukraine. Evo's really one of the best analysts to read and listen to on this topic. As always,

2:10.3

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