Christopher Schaefer

Christopher Schaefer is writing a biography of longtime New Yorker and International Herald Tribune correspondent William Pfaff. A passionate advocate for world literature, he recently translated the first Burundian novel ever to be published in English, Roland Rugeroâs Baho!

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When populism overruns its borders

Making sense of Donald Trump's foreign policy

Hawk or dove? Donald Trump’s synthesis of populist isolationism and nationalist triumphalism produces an erratic and unpredictable stance on America’s international role. The foreign policies of populist precedents provide clues as to how Trump thinks about the rest of the world, according to Christopher Schaefer.

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