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The contributors to this volume consider whether a conception of unpredictability did inform Trump's foreign policy as a coherent doctrine. This book also takes the issue further to problematize what the very concept of unpredictability means in respect to International Relations.
Introduction: Trump and unpredictability in international relations 1. Theorizing unpredictability in international politics: a new approach to Trump and the Trump Doctrine 2. Unpredictability as doctrine: Reconceptualising foreign policy strategy in the Trump era 3. Trump's low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing 'unpredictability doctrine' 4. The unpredictability factor: Nixon, Trump and the application of the Madman Theory in US grand strategy 5. Predictably unpredictable: Trump's personality and approach towards China