A Comparative Study on the Obama and Trump Administrations’ Foreign Policy Approaches

The present article is written using a descriptive-analytical method, the data having been compiled using library resources, and it tries to explain the foreign policy of the Obama and Trump administrations. This study seeks to answer the question that how the Obama and Trump administrations' foreign policy approaches differed. Therefore, it first considers and compares the discourse and orientation of US foreign policy during the presidencies of Obama and Trump, and then goes on to examine the case-by-case policies of each US president towards NATO, terrorism, East Asia, Iran‟s and North Korea‟s nuclear program, as well as world trade. Finally, the research findings show that the policies of Obama and Trump are fundamentally different because the announced and applied policies of the Obama administration have emphasized a multilateralist approach and the issue of security, while the Trump administration has adopted a unilateral approach with the slogan "America First" and has put an emphasis on the economy in its foreign policy agenda.