What would a second Trump term mean for U.S. foreign policy? Who has the former president’s ear on world affairs?
FP columnist Matthew Kroenig has given these questions a lot of thought in his new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War, co-written with Dan Negrea and with a foreword from former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Kroenig joined FP Live to elaborate on the book’s thesis while opening up his notebook to discuss which policymakers currently animate former President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy thinking.
Foreign Policy columnist Matthew Kroenig tells FP’s Ravi Agrawal that the U.S. Republican Party’s foreign policy is united under a “Trump-Reagan fusion.”
Kroenig rejects the idea that former U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is isolationist, contending that in his first term, he actually strengthened U.S. alliances.
Kroenig argues that the United States can constrain China’s ability to “threaten America’s vital interests” without risking economic engagement.
Kroenig explains what Trump’s foreign-policy agenda would be if he were to be elected to a second term.
A Trump 2.0 presidency would take place in “the most dangerous international security environment … since the end of the Cold War.” Kroenig tells Agrawal what his potential concerns would be.
Matthew Kroenig
Columnist, Foreign Policy
Matthew Kroenig is a columnist at Foreign Policy, vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and a professor in the government department and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His latest book is We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War.
Host of FP Live
Ravi Agrawal
Editor in chief, Foreign Policy
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the host of FP Live, and a regular world affairs analyst on TV and radio. Before joining FP in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He is the author of India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.
