Trump’s short-lived foreign policy successes
For
about two weeks, the world thought the US president was a man of action. David
McDonough explains why we should have seen failure coming over the North Korea
and Iran files.
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Research fellow, Centre for the Study of Security and Development, Dalhousie University
David McDonough is deputy editor at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Security and Development, Dalhousie University. He previously was research manager and senior editor at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. He received a PhD in Political Science from Dalhousie University in 2011. He has published and edited widely on Canadian strategic policy and international security, including as editor of Canada’s National Security in the Post-9/11 World: Strategy, Interests, and Threats (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
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