Abstract
This chapter analyzes foreign policy decision making in the Trump administration through the lens of political psychology. Using applications of the Big Five, Leader Trait Analysis, and Image Theory, the chapter explores Trump’s foreign policy predispositions, his interactions with advisers, and his information processing and decision making. It argues that Trump has been and will continue to be predisposed to take risks and to bargain aggressively while having no experience in foreign policy. Trump lacks the cognitive complexity to learn the subtleties of foreign policy, while being heavily reliant upon advisers to whom he has little loyalty or trust and whose advice he is resistant to when it conflicts with his own predispositions.
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