Author profile: Chris Featherstone

Chris Featherstone is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York. His work specialises on US and UK foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, and foreign policy making. He is a regular contributor to The Conversation, and has published several pieces on Donald Trump’s leadership style. His publications include: Featherstone, C. (2024) America’s Back? US foreign policy under Biden. Political Insight; Featherstone, C. (2023). The Iraq War: Lessons Learned? Political Insight, 14(2), 36–39; Siniver, A., Featherstone, C. (2020). The Plutocrat President: Low-Conceptual Complexity and Trump’s Foreign Policy. Global Affairs. Volume 6, Issue 1; Hassan, O. Featherstone, C. (2020). Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership style and the vanishing ‘Unpredictability Doctrine’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Opinion – In a Knife-edge Election, Two Different Portrayals of America

Chris Featherstone • Nov 26 2024 • Articles

The 2024 election period and the campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris presented two very different images of American foreign policy, yet Trump’s eventual win showcased what the American electorate was looking for.

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