Abstract
Trump’s foreign policy outlook and his rhetorical predispositions suggest that the
American foreign policy is about to undergo drastic changes in terms of substance matter
of policy. The arrival of Trump at the helm of affairs has built a conventional perception
of gradual American retreat from the Obama’s rebalancing policy and its pacific-centric
outlook. Any abrupt change in this policy of rebalancing will have serious repercussions
for the regional economic, political and security architecture designed by America since
world-war II. In this context, Offensive Realism, that takes system level variables as the
primary determinants of foreign policy of great powers, offers a valuable framework to
understand and explain the future course of Obama’s policy of rebalancing under the
incumbent administration. To this end, this article is aimed at delving into the theoretical
and historical reservoirs related to the US foreign policy along with the current practices
of Trump administration to test the claims of continuity or transformation in the US
foreign policy of rebalancing in the Asia Pacific region. This article asserts that Obama’s
rebalancing policy would continue in the future with certain tactical adjustments related
to the implementation of policy.
Younis Chughtai, Khurram Iqbal. (2018) FUTURE OF REBALANCING POLICY UNDER TRUMP: A CASE FOR CONTINUITY, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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