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Home / Burden sharing / Analyzing Trump’s foreign policy and its international implications
Burden sharing, Grand strategy

May 13, 2026

Analyzing Trump’s foreign policy and its international implications

By Benjamin Friedman

In 2016, Ben Friedman wrote, “The Trump Administration Will be Hawkish,” where he argued that despite Trump’s non-interventionist campaign rhetoric, structural forces, hawkish appointees, and an entrenched foreign policy bureaucracy would push him closer toward conventional military interventionism. Ten years later, we asked Ben to revisit his arguments.

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