Socio-Economic Foundations of Trump’s Domestic Policy and The Globalist Project in The United States (2016-2020)

Dmitry  Kolomyts; Firdaus  Vagapova; Renat  Vagapov; Segei  Ustinkin; Irina  Kuvakova; Natalia  Morozova

doi:10.46398/cuestpol.3969.42

Dmitry Kolomyts Institute of International Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Firdaus Vagapova Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Renat Vagapov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
Segei Ustinkin Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
Irina Kuvakova Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
Natalia Morozova Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3969.42

Keywords: U.S. policy, socio-economic, relations, globalism, regionalization, multipolar world

Abstract

The article considers the socio-economic dimension of former President Donald John Trump’s domestic policy concept in the United States during his presidency from 2016 to 2020. The contradictions between D. Trump’s policies and the concept of globalism stand out. During his domestic policy course, D. Trump sought to regain the ability of U.S. leadership to rebuild the country’s big industry to achieve the independence of transnational financial capital. His policies had been partially successful and had created the conditions for a redefinition of the concept of globalism. Methodologically, the research, in reviewing Trump’s globalist strategy and economic strategy, adopted a socio-economic approach to politics that simultaneously explored geoeconomics and geopolitical issues in their dialectical interactions, including on the socio-economic dimension itself. It concludes that the U.S. elite faced the need to accommodate the interests of the American population, whether Republican or Democrat. Moreover, as asocial phenomenon, Trumpism has shown that the politics of globalism has entered a period of conceptual and resource crisis characterized by its inability to consider the interests of the American population.

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Author Biographies

Dmitry Kolomyts, Institute of International Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9891-6337

Ph.D. of Political Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Eurasian Studies, Institute of International Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia.

Firdaus Vagapova, Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6876-7353

Ph.D. of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, World Politics and Diplomacy, Institute of International Relations, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan,Russia.

Renat Vagapov, Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5303-1682

Ph.D. of Political Sciences, Advisor, Department for the Prevention of Extremism at Religious Grounds, Office for Monitoring Interethnic and Interfaith Relations of the Federal Agency for Nationalities (FADN) of Russia, Moscow, Senior Research Officer of International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory "Study of World and Regional Socio-Political Processes" Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Segei Ustinkin, Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1481-3208

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of Laboratory, International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory "Study of World and Regional Socio-Political Processes", Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Nizhny Novgorod, Director of Volga branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology Academy of Sciences Russia.

Irina Kuvakova, Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0932-3573

Ph.D. of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Department of International Relations and Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, Moscow; Research Assistant of International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory "Study of World and Regional Socio-Political Processes" Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Natalia Morozova, Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1335-8496

Ph.D. of Political Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and World Political Processes, Research Assistant of International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory "Study of World and Regional Socio-Political Processes" Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Nizhny Novgorod, Deputy Director of Volga branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology Academy of Sciences Russia.

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