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    The document summarizes criticisms of President Trump's foreign policy record from scholars of international relations and foreign policy. They argue that his administration has weakened American alliances, emboldened rivals like China and Russia, and mishandled crises around the world. As a result, the US is seen as less influential and unstable, undermining global security and prosperity. New leadership is needed to restore US credibility and leadership on the global stage.

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    The document summarizes criticisms of President Trump's foreign policy record from scholars of international relations and foreign policy. They argue that his administration has weakened American alliances, emboldened rivals like China and Russia, and mishandled crises around the world. As a result, the US is seen as less influential and unstable, undermining global security and prosperity. New leadership is needed to restore US credibility and leadership on the global stage.

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    The document summarizes criticisms of President Trump's foreign policy record from scholars of international relations and foreign policy. They argue that his administration has weakened American alliances, emboldened rivals like China and Russia, and mishandled crises around the world. As a result, the US is seen as less influential and unstable, undermining global security and prosperity. New leadership is needed to restore US credibility and leadership on the global stage.

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    The document summarizes criticisms of President Trump's foreign policy record from scholars of international relations and foreign policy. They argue that his administration has weakened American alliances, emboldened rivals like China and Russia, and mishandled crises around the world. As a result, the US is seen as less influential and unstable, undermining global security and prosperity. New leadership is needed to restore US credibility and leadership on the global stage.

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    The document criticizes Trump's foreign policy record and argues it has emboldened rivals, alienated allies, and mishandled various crises.

    The document argues that Trump's foreign policy record has failed on many fronts including the trade war with China hurting farmers, Russia continuing to meddle in elections, North Korea continuing nuclear programs, and Iran attacking the US and having a more robust nuclear program.

    The document gives examples such as the US relationship with NATO allies weakening, closing the embassy in Iraq illustrating the weakening of the State Department, and racist policies weakening the US's ability to promote democratic rights internationally.

    We the undersigned scholars of international relations and foreign policy view the Trump foreign

    policy record largely as a failure. This administration has emboldened US rivals and alienated
    many vital US allies. Crises at every level have been mishandled, from the global Covid19
    pandemic and climate change to slowing or containing national nuclear programs in Iran and
    North Korea. The United States, once a world leader, is seen as weak and disengaged by many
    leaders and in many populations across the world. The result is greater instability, insecurity,
    and human suffering. We need new leadership.

    1) The US trade war with China increased tariffs, additional taxes paid by US
    consumers for imported Chinese goods. Meanwhile, the US trade agreement with China
    has fallen far short in raising US exports to China. China has not met the targets agreed
    to with the Trump administration. The trade war badly hurt US farmers, with the Trump
    government then spending tens of billions of dollars to subsidize them. When the United
    States badly needed PPE to fight Covid19, Trump’s trade restrictions hindered its
    acquisition.
    2) Authoritarian Russia continues to meddle in and undermine the legitimacy of US
    democratic elections while President Donald J. Trump denies it is a problem. The Trump
    administration seems to feel closer to Putin’s Russia than our NATO allies.
    3) North Korea has continued its nuclear weapons program despite the exchange of
    fawning letters between Trump and Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean leader.
    4) In response to Trump’s policy, Iran now attacks the United States in Iraq with
    greater frequency and has a more robust nuclear program. In addition, the United States
    is talking about closing its embassy in Baghdad as a result. This embassy closure – in
    Iraq of all places – would be an apt illustration of the weakening of the Department of
    State under this president.
    5) US policy toward Venezuela has overpromised and underdelivered, leaving
    Venezuelans even more desperate, the opposition divided, the Maduro government
    emboldened, and US credibility weakened.
    6) The US Director of National Intelligence has dangerously limited bipartisan
    intelligence sharing. This latest example of frequent partisan manipulation of intelligence
    leaves fewer US officials to evaluate potential crisis and threats, damages relations
    between the Executive Branch agencies and Congress, and could create dangerous
    gaps for US rivals to exploit.
    7) Rather than focusing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on meeting
    external threats to US national security and on rising domestic white supremacist
    terrorism, the Trump administration has used DHS as a hyper-partisan weapon against
    immigrants and US antiracism protestors. This diversion of resources could well leave
    the United States ill-prepared should a foreign adversary seek to do harm to the United
    States and its citizens.
    8) As deadly wildfires and hurricanes tragically remind the United States of the climate
    crisis and the increasing number and intensity of extreme weather events, the Trump
    administration pulled out of the major international climate agreement (the Paris
    Accords), often questions the scientific consensus that the crisis is human-induced, and
    offers no substantive alternative remedy.
    9) In the midst of a global pandemic, the United States announced it was pulling out of
    the World Health Organization and failed to provide almost any global leadership to meet
    Covid19. The US domestic failure to get Covid19 under control is a model of what not to
    do but sadly one consistent with several other countries with authoritarian-style leaders.
    10) The administration has separated thousands of children from their parents, detaining
    or deporting them and often failing to reunite them with their parent(s). They have been
    held in inhumane conditions lacking adequate medical care; this abuse and trauma is
    detrimental to child development. More generally, the Trump administration has
    physically prevented hundreds of thousands of people from making asylum claims on
    the southern US border in violation of international law. The administration deported
    individuals with positive Covid19 diagnoses, further spreading the disease. Meanwhile,
    the administration has nearly eliminated the US refugee resettlement program, a symbol
    of US humanitarianism and a welcome pathway for oppressed people to start a new life
    and enrich US society.
    11) Racist and discriminatory policies at home, anti-democratic crackdowns on US
    protestors, and direct insults of Latin American and African countries embolden racists in
    other countries and further weaken the US ability to persuade other countries to respect
    democratic rights, such as China’s brutal detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
    12) In two key battles, the Trump administration has done no better than its
    predecessors. The forces of the Islamic State are rebuilding. Nineteen years later,
    despite diplomatic talks, the War in Afghanistan continues.
    13) While the administration has some policies that did not fail, their impact was greatly
    exaggerated. The new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico was more an updating
    of the North American Free Trade Agreement than a whole new policy. The Bahrain-
    Israel-United Arab Emirates agreements were a modest diplomatic achievement but
    completely failed to address Trump’s promise to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
    may deepen a regional arms race.

    President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy has already caused major harm. The United States
    can rebuild in positive ways, but a second Trump term would do even deeper damage to US
    institutions, diplomacy, leadership, and international norms. Countries such as China would
    continue to fill the vacuum. Instead, to increase US security and reduce human suffering, we
    need new leadership now.

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    Karen J. Alter Northwestern University


    Ivan Michael Arreguín-Toft Brown University
    Robert J. Art Brandeis University (Emeritus)
    Victor Asal University at Albany, SUNY
    Severine Autesserre Barnard College, Columbia University
    Deborah Avant University of Denver
    Alexander D. Barder Florida International University
    Naazneen H. Barma University of Denver
    Michael Barnett George Washington University
    Marie E. Berry University of Denver
    Mia Bloom Georgia State University
    Joshua Busby University of Texas-Austin
    Charli Carpenter University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    Erica Chenoweth Harvard University
    Anjali Dayal Fordham University
    V. Page Fortna Columbia University
    M. Taylor Fravel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Charles Glaser George Washington University
    James Goldgeier American University
    Elizabeth Hanson University of Connecticut
    Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Northwestern University
    Ian Hurd Northwestern University
    Patrick Thaddeus Jackson School of International Service, American University
    Bruce W. Jentleson Duke University
    Robert Jervis Columbia University
    Sabrina Karim Cornell University
    Sean Kay Ohio Wesleyan University
    Jonathan Kirshner Boston College
    Gregory D. Koblentz Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
    Raymond Kuo Independent political scientist
    Brett Ashley Leeds Rice University
    Sarah K. Lischer Wake Forest University
    Jeremy Menchik Boston University
    Barak Mendelsohn Haverford College
    Nicholas Miller Dartmouth College
    Jennifer Mitzen
    Sara Bjerg Moller Seton Hall University
    T. Clifton Morgan Rice University
    Vipin Narang Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jeremy Pressman University of Connecticut
    Brian Rathbun University of Southern California
    Elizabeth N. Saunders Georgetown University
    Paul Staniland University of Chicago
    Jelena Subotic Georgia State University
    Caitlin Talmadge Georgetown University
    Zak Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology
    Monica Duffy Toft Fletcher School, Tufts University
    Dov Waxman University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Sharon K. Weiner American University

    Institutions are mentioned above for the purpose of identification only.


    No institution listed above has endorsed this statement.

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