Taming the President: Trump, the Advisory System, and the Mechanisms of Us Foreign Policy Decision-Making

During his first term in office, Donald Trump failed to implement his revolutionary foreign policy agenda. To provide a plausible explanation for the multifaceted nature of Trump’s foreign policy achievements and shortcomings, this book brings together leadership trait analysis and bureaucratic politics to develop a model that frames their interactions and mutual influence.

Andrea Carati is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, where he teaches International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis. He has a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in their NATO and transatlantic relations programme. His research has been published in several journals including International Peacekeeping, Global Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, Global Change, Peace & Security.

Andrea Locatelli is Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he teaches Political Science and Strategic Studies. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence, Italy. Prior to joining Università Cattolica, he was a scholar-in-residence at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and was a post-doc fellow at the University of Bologna. He has also been Visiting Professor at Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary), the University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana) and SciencesPo (Menton campus, France). His research has been published in several journals including Global Policy, Political Science Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Security Policy and European Security.