Matthew Alan Hill is the International Relations and Politics Lead at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. His current research interests are in US foreign policy, in particular, democracy promotion, and dystopian world predictions. His most recent publication is The Rise and Fall of US Democracy Promotion: From Carter to Biden (Routledge, 2022).Steven Hurst is Reader in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests are US foreign policy toward the Middle East and aspects of Foreign Policy Analysis. He is the author most recently of The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme (2018).

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• Introduction: The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy 1. The Trump foreign policy record and the concept of transformational change 2. What makes America great? Donald Trump, national identity, and U.S. foreign policy 3. When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy 4. Security and polarization in Trump’s America: securitization and the domestic politics of threatening others 5. Low- conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy 6. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism 7. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Trump administration’s policy on democratic practices in Russia and the challenge to US identity 8. Crisis, narratives, and the construction of US- Middle East relations: continuity and change in world history and Trump’s America First 9. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy

Matthew Alan Hill is the International Relations and Politics Lead at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. His current research interests are in US foreign policy, in particular, democracy promotion, and dystopian world predictions. His most recent publication is The Rise and Fall of US Democracy Promotion: From Carter to Biden (Routledge, 2022).Steven Hurst is Reader in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests are US foreign policy toward the Middle East and aspects of Foreign Policy Analysis. He is the author most recently of The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme (2018).

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• Introduction: The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy 1. The Trump foreign policy record and the concept of transformational change 2. What makes America great? Donald Trump, national identity, and U.S. foreign policy 3. When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy 4. Security and polarization in Trump’s America: securitization and the domestic politics of threatening others 5. Low- conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy 6. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism 7. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Trump administration’s policy on democratic practices in Russia and the challenge to US identity 8. Crisis, narratives, and the construction of US- Middle East relations: continuity and change in world history and Trump’s America First 9. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy

Matthew Alan Hill is the International Relations and Politics Lead at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. His current research interests are in US foreign policy, in particular, democracy promotion, and dystopian world predictions. His most recent publication is The Rise and Fall of US Democracy Promotion: From Carter to Biden (Routledge, 2022).Steven Hurst is Reader in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests are US foreign policy toward the Middle East and aspects of Foreign Policy Analysis. He is the author most recently of The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme (2018).

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• Introduction: The Trump presidency: continuity and change in US foreign policy 1. The Trump foreign policy record and the concept of transformational change 2. What makes America great? Donald Trump, national identity, and U.S. foreign policy 3. When ends Trump means: continuity versus change in US counterterrorism policy 4. Security and polarization in Trump’s America: securitization and the domestic politics of threatening others 5. Low- conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy 6. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism 7. “You think our country’s so innocent?” The Trump administration’s policy on democratic practices in Russia and the challenge to US identity 8. Crisis, narratives, and the construction of US- Middle East relations: continuity and change in world history and Trump’s America First 9. The Trump administration: continuity and change in US foreign policy