Donald Trump won the presidency by presenting himself to the electorate as someone who “could get things done” and by promising to upend policy making in Washington. However, the first year of the Trump presidency has been characterized as disorganized and chaotic. The president’s policy detachment and his penchant for improvisation and proclivity for heeding nontraditional sources of information have contributed to this generalized perception. This article assesses Trump’s management style and identifies the main dynamics involved in the administration’s foreign policy–making process in its first year in office by analyzing how the advisory system functioned in the decisions to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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A perspective on sustainable environment Changes in mainland Portuguese forest areas since the last decade of the XXth century Changements des zones forestières portugaises depuis la dernière décennie du e siècle

Post-communist land use changes related to urban sprawl in the Romanian metropolitan areas Abstract & Full text | doi: 10.5719/hgeo.2012.61.35 Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrișor Land cover and land use analysis of urban growth in Romania Abstract & Full text |

The Carter Administration came to Office seeking to continue a policy of détente. However, the Administration’s policy vis-à-vis the Soviets became more assertive throughout the Presidency, culminating in the Carter Doctrine. The current paper applies a conceptual framework for “issue selling” to argue that a more assertive foreign policy was being promoted by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and his NSC staff since the early days of the Carter Presidency. By applying an assortment of issue selling strategies, Zbigniew Brzezinski and the NSC staff were able to exploit the communicative interactions amongst the political leadership to continuously promote a more forceful US policy towards the Soviets. By being able to interpret and define the problem representation facing the Administration, the APNSA was able initiate and continuously promote a wholesale policy transformation leading to the development of the Carter Doctrine.