Presidential Leadership and Foreign Policy: Comparing the Trump and Biden Doctrines

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is likely to hinge on two very different basic approaches to domestic and foreign policy, two very different sets of underlying premises, and two very different types of presidential and high-level official personalities at the administrative helm putting them into effect. This volume comparatively analyzes the choices of presidential doctrine that are likely to foreshadow alternatives concerning the principles, beliefs, and nature of U.S. foreign policy in the years following the election.

Stanley Renshon is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate School and University Center, USA, and a certified psychoanalyst. He is the author of over 100 professional articles and 18 books in the areas of presidential psychology and leadership, immigration and American national identity, and American foreign policy.
Peter Suedfeld is Dean Emeritus of Graduate Studies and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author (with Stanley Renshon) of Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism (2007).