EPISODE · Dec 12, 2025 · 57 MIN
Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy Blueprint
from The World Unpacked · host Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is the clearest and boldest statement of President Donald Trump’s global vision. It reveals U.S. plans to dominate Latin America, transform politics in Europe, and seize commercial opportunities in Asia. Leaders around the world are closely studying this document.Find the episode transcript and streaming audio, and get the show direct to your inbox, here: https://carnegieendowment.org/podcasts/the-world-unpacked/decoding-trumps-foreign-policy-blueprint?Follow Jon on X: https://x.com/JonKBateman
What this episode covers
Stephen Wertheim is a historian, strategist, and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy. He joins Jon Bateman, host of The World Unpacked, to assess what this historic document can tell us. Will Trump follow it? Which GOP factions were behind it? And how will it shape the battle of ideas in 2028 and beyond? A historian, Wertheim has published scholarly research on a range of subjects and concepts in U.S. foreign policy since the late nineteenth century.
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