Abstract
Trump’s foreign policy outlook and his rhetorical predispositions suggest that the American foreign policy is about to undergo drastic changes in terms of substance matter of policy. The arrival of Trump at the helm of affairs has built a conventional perception of gradual American retreat from the Obama’s rebalancing policy and its pacific-centric outlook. Any abrupt change in this policy of rebalancing will have serious repercussions for the regional economic, political and security architecture designed by America since world-war II. In this context, Offensive Realism, that takes system level variables as the primary determinants of foreign policy of great powers, offers a valuable framework to understand and explain the future course of Obama’s policy of rebalancing under the incumbent administration. To this end, this article is aimed at delving into the theoretical and historical reservoirs related to the US foreign policy along with the current practices of Trump administration to test the claims of continuity or transformation in the US foreign policy of rebalancing in the Asia Pacific region. This article asserts that Obama’s rebalancing policy would continue in the future with certain tactical adjustments related to the implementation of policy.
Highlights
America is considered to be a Pacific nation and besides this, contemporary regional realities have made this region (Asia Pacific) more important to America
This article is aimed at delving into the theoretical and historical reservoirs related to the US foreign policy along with the current practices of Trump administration to test the claims of continuity or transformation in the US foreign policy of rebalancing in the Asia Pacific region
Future of Rebalancing Policy Under Trump: A Case for Continuity become accustomed to principled and mostly predictable US leadership”.1. This uncertainty regarding the future of US-Asia Pacific policy, the Obama’s rebalancing policy, spurred interest in investigating and examining the US foreign policy in terms of theoretical and more practical grounds to explain the nature of US foreign policy choices and to provide new insights into the kind of foreign policy Trump administration may take in the future
Summary
America is considered to be a Pacific nation and besides this, contemporary regional realities have made this region (Asia Pacific) more important to America. Skepticism about the Trump Administration’s policy in the Asia Pacific is fuelled, in part, by rhetoric projecting American retreat from its commitments beyond the American continent, in the Asia Pacific region. A Case for Continuity become accustomed to principled and mostly predictable US leadership”.1. This uncertainty regarding the future of US-Asia Pacific policy, the Obama’s rebalancing policy, spurred interest in investigating and examining the US foreign policy in terms of theoretical and more practical (in the face of rhetoric and individual choices) grounds to explain the nature of US foreign policy choices and to provide new insights into the kind of foreign policy Trump administration may take in the future. It strives to substantiate the argument by giving a brief analysis of incumbent administration’s engagement with the Asia Pacific region
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