Book contents
- The Time of Global Politics
- The Time of Global Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Theorizing with the Present
- 2 The Temporal Imaginary of International Relations
- 3 A Presentist Approach to International Relations
- 4 The Temporality of IR Theories
- 5 The Time of War
- 6 Making America Great Again, Again, and Again
- 7 Beyond Disciplinary Prediction
- 8 Theorizing Responsibly
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
6 - Making America Great Again, Again, and Again
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2023
- The Time of Global Politics
- The Time of Global Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Theorizing with the Present
- 2 The Temporal Imaginary of International Relations
- 3 A Presentist Approach to International Relations
- 4 The Temporality of IR Theories
- 5 The Time of War
- 6 Making America Great Again, Again, and Again
- 7 Beyond Disciplinary Prediction
- 8 Theorizing Responsibly
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Making America Great Again, Again and Again focuses on a recent example of state behavior—US foreign policy during the Trump administration—to illustrate how these tools and concepts can enrich our understanding of the present moment. The Trump administration was viewed by many as historically novel and one whose actions might radically reorder the world, while others saw it as merely an extension of deep historical processes. How one positioned this present largely turned on their conception of past and future. By placing emergence and change as ontological constants, and centering this heterotemporality and discontinuity, we can better identify the temporal dynamics that characterized the Trump administration’s—and thus American—foreign policy. This chapter identifies four temporal dynamics that characterized the Trump administration—temporal othering, the production of simultaneity in a heterotemporal political environment, the accelerated pace and tempo of political action, and the (re)production of an indefinite present.
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- The Time of Global PoliticsInternational Relations as Study of the Present, pp. 168 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023