Dr Garren Mulloy4, Dr Brendon O'Connor2, Dr Lloyd Cox6, Dr Gorana Grgić5, Dr Alexandra Homolar1, Dr Timothy J. Lynch3
1University Of Warwick, United Kingdom, 2University of Sydney, Australia, 3University of Melbourne, Australia, 4Daito Bunka University, Japan, 5ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 6Macquarie University, Australia
Biography:
Brendon O’Connor is Professor of US Politics and US Foreign Relations at the University of Sydney. He is the author and editor of several books, including A Political History of the American Welfare System (Routledge, 2020).
Lloyd Cox is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. His recent research has focused on the US-Australia Alliance, and on nationalism and emotions in international politics.
Gorana Grgić is a Senior Researcher at the ETH Zürich’s Centre for Security Studies, with research interests in US and EU foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Her publications include Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations (Routledge, 2017).
Alexandra Homolar is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on US security politics, including The Uncertainty Doctrine (Cambridge, 2023).
Timothy J. Lynch is Professor of American Politics at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on US foreign policy, including most recently In the Shadow of the Cold War (Cambridge, 2020).
Abstract:
To many pundits, the re-election of Donald J. Trump in November 2024 to serve another term in the White House after the one-term Biden presidency came as a shock. This roundtable brings together leading experts from across the globe for early assessments of Trump’s foreign and security policy agenda, ideology, and actions. Offering a serious analysis of Trump 2.0 by drawing on theoretical and conceptual models from their previous research, the roundtable will discuss the key characteristics of Trump’s first six months in office as the 47th US President and reflect upon where Trump’s foreign and security policy is at, and where it is likely to head in the future. In particular, participants will consider President Trump’s rhetoric, leadership style, and policy preferences. Placing his second term in the context of both his first term and the Obama and Biden presidencies, they will offer divergent views on the degree of change and continuity between the foreign and security policy across recent Democratic and Republican administrations.