Blessing America First - Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

Drawing on first-hand experience in the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administration's populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Religion and Foreign Policy: Statecraft and Populist Governance
1. What Does Populism Have to Do with Religion and Foreign Policy?
2. The Blob Gets Religion: RGA and the Prepopulist Equilibrium
Part II. The Populist Difference
3. "The Faith of the Administration": Populist Ideology, Religion, and Foreign Policy
4. Who Needs an Office? Populist Personalism and Religion in the Bureaucracy
Part III. Preexisting Conditions and Populist Constraint
5. Faith in a Deep State? Bureaucratic Preservation in a Populist Transition
6. Salvation in Institutions? American Secularism, Executive Power, and Populist Change
7. A Faithful Audience? Public Opinion and Trump's Religious Foreign Policy
Part IV. Effects Beyond the Populist
8. Faithful Partners: Religious Populism and International Ties
Conclusion: Religion and Foreign Policy After Populism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David T. Buckley is the Paul Weber Endowed Chair of Politics, Science, and Religion in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville, where he also directs the Center for Asian Democracy. He is the author of Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Columbia, 2017).

Summary

Drawing on first-hand experience in the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administration’s populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy.

Product details

• Authors: David Buckley, Buckley David
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231207553
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20755-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, Political Science, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religion and Politics, Constitution: government & the state, Central / national / federal government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Central government, Constitution: government and the state