US President Donald Trump's foreign policy doctrine is the subject
of vast debate. Analysts and practitioners routinely disagree as to
what ideology and thinking informed his foreign policy approach -
and even whether Trump was politically capable of formulating a
doctrine at all. This book explores one specific line of analysis,
which deals with the concept of what has been termed the 'doctrine
of unpredictability'. Trump has repeatedly declared that being
unpredictable comprises the ideal approach to foreign policy for a
state leader. Never be predictable; never let others know what you
will do next. The contributors to this volume consider whether a
conception of unpredictability did inform Trump's foreign policy as
a coherent doctrine. Yet this book also takes the issue further to
problematize what the very concept of unpredictability means in
respect to International Relations. What is unpredictability - and
how does the concept apply in respect to Trump especially? What
impact does unpredictability have on international relationships?
How far does unpredictability deviate from previous approaches to
foreign policy, not least Madman Theory? And is it even possible to
understand the idea of unpredictability fully within a discipline
that is more typically committed to comprehending certainty in
respect to international politics? The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Cambridge Review of
International Affairs.
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