Confronting the International Order: Changes in US Foreign Policy from the Perspective of American Power Elites

Andrzej Mania; Tomasz Pugacewicz

doi:10.18778/1641-4233.23.02

Authors

Andrzej Mania Jagiellonian University, Institute of Political Science and International Relations
Tomasz Pugacewicz Jagiellonian University, Institute of Political Science and International Relations

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1641-4233.23.02

Keywords:

United States, international order, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, US power elite, international relations theories, ideological rivalry, Russia, China

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the most important voices on the role of the US in the international order during Donald Trump’s presidency in the debate held in the Foreign Affairs. The authors assume that Foreign Affairs expresses the opinions of the most crucial organisation bringing together the elites of American foreign affairs – the Council on Foreign Relations. The paper proposes a hypothesis according to which there is a difference of opinion due to the adopted theoretical perspective regarding Trump’s role in the destruction of the liberal international order among the American power elites, even though they agree that the ideological conflict between democratic and authoritarian countries around the world is escalating.

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Author Biographies

Andrzej Mania, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Political Science and International Relations

Andrzej Mania - Professor title awarded by the President of Poland in 1993. Since 1997, Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations and head of the Chair of Diplomatic History and International Politics. Simultaneously, since 1994, head of the Chair of American Studies. Between 2008 and 2016, Vice- Rector for Educational Affairs of the Jagiellonian University. Member of the Steering Committee of the International Research University Network (2008–2012). Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund of the Tokyo Foundation at the Jagiellonian University. Fellow or visiting professor in more than ten foreign institutions, including Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies in Washington and the University of Rochester. Authored or co-authored ten books, including The Department of State 1789–1939 (Jagiellonian University Press, Krakow 2011). Editor of another six books. Member of the Lions Club International (Krakow Stare Miasto).

Tomasz Pugacewicz, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Political Science and International Relations

Tomasz Pugacewicz - PhD, Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The theoretical aspects of his PhD dissertation were published in the monograph Teorie polityki zagranicznej. Perspektywa amerykańskiej analizy polityki zagranicznej [Theories of Foreign Policy. American FPA Perspective] (Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2017). During his internships abroad, he was a visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins University, the State University of New York, and the Heidelberg University. In 2018, he received a grant from the Polish National Science Centre for the project titled “Between Center and Periphery: A Comparison of Ludwik Ehrlich’s Theoretical Concepts with American-British International Relations in the First Half of the Twenty Century”. Holder of several scholarships, e.g. the scholarship of the Copernicus Society in America. In 2015, he participated in the Ideas Lab – the Young Professionals Programme at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.

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