Blessing America First by David Buckley - 9780231207553

Blessing America FirstReligion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration\nAuthor(s): David Buckley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231207553, 978-0231207553\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\n\nHow did the Trump administration change the place of religion in [url] foreign policy? How did the guardrails of Americas foreign policy bureaucracy respond to a populist president? Drawing on firsthand experience in the State Departments Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administrations populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy, with significant implications for [url] domestic and international politics.\n\nBlessing America First argues that under Trump, religion in [url] foreign policy shifted from an implement of statecraft to a tool of populist political strategy. Populism constr.