The Rise of Trump and Its Global Implications - Trump’s Middle East: Back to the Future

• Main Author: Dorsey, James Michael
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Conflict and Stability; Country and Region Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84830; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41988
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s clearest indication yet of his policy approach towards the Middle East and North Africa was tucked into a recent thank-you speech in Cincinnati. It is a transaction-based return to support of autocracy that is likely to tie him into knots and reinforce drivers of mi...