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Interest over Ideology: The Trump Shift Toward Interest-Based Policy
Paperback
Series: Political Reviews, Book 1
General Political ScienceInternational Relations
Publisher: Biteback Press
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Interest over Ideology: The Trump Shift Toward Interest-Based Policy is the inaugural volume in Political Reviews series published by BiteBack Press under its flagship mission; Deep-Dive into Emerging Policy Orientations and Political Directions.
Interest over Ideology: The Trump Shift Toward Interest-Based Policy offers a rigorous, nonpartisan analysis of one of the most consequential transformations in modern American statecraft: the strategic pivot from liberal internationalism to an explicitly interest-centered foreign policy. Far from a fleeting political aberration, this shift, most visibly crystallized during the Trump presidency, reflects a deeper structural reckoning with the limits of U.S. power, the erosion of domestic consensus, and the rise of a more contested, multipolar world.
This book argues that the turn toward America First realism was not merely rhetorical or idiosyncratic, but a rational response to decades of military overextension, economic dislocation, and strategic miscalculation. It traces how pressures ranging from the 2008 financial crisis and China's systemic ascent to domestic political fragmentation created fertile ground for a doctrine that prioritizes sovereignty, reciprocity, and tangible national returns over moral universalism and institutional stewardship.
Moving beyond partisan caricature, the volume situates this shift within the broader arc of American grand strategy, revealing its historical antecedents, operational logic, and enduring legacy. It examines how interest-based principles reshaped U.S. approaches to alliances, trade, military engagement, immigration, and great-power competition, and why core elements of this framework have persisted across administrations.
Ultimately, this book contends that interest over ideology is not a temporary rupture but a durable recalibration, one that will define the contours of American power in an age of constraint, competition, and strategic realism.
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