An Open Letter on Donald Trump’s Vision of U.S. Foreign Policy

Ali Wyne
3 min readJul 26, 2016

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The American Interest has generously published an open letter I wrote that critiques Donald Trump’s vision of U.S. foreign policy. There are over 260 signatories (listed below), including historians, political scientists, members of the think tank community, and former government officials.

If you happen to agree with the thrust of the letter, I’d appreciate your sharing it with family, friends, and colleagues. And if you’d like to add your name to the list of signatories, just e-mail me at awyne@alum.mit.edu.

Susan A. Aaronson
Gordon Adams
Tripp Adams
David Anderson
Phil Arena
Terry Babcock-Lumish
Jieun Baek
David A. Baldwin
Hussein Banai
Alexander D. Barder
Elmira Bayrasli
Omar S. Bashir
Michael Beckley
Nora Bensahel
Gregory M. Bernstein
Benedetta Berti
Richard K. Betts
Jonathan Beutler
Stephen D. Biddle
Stephen Blank
Philipp C. Bleek
Andrea Blinkhorn
Mia M. Bloom
David Bosco
Erik Brattberg
Harold Brown
Robert L. Brown
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
John A. Burgess
Joshua W. Busby
Richard C. Bush
Sarah Bush
David Callaway
Albert M. Camarillo
Pam Campos
James C. Carli
Asha Castleberry
Andrew Cedar
Welton Chang
Michael S. Chase
Shamila Chaudhary
Scott Cheney-Peters
Erica Chenoweth
Andrei Cherny
Joshua Claybourn
Cathryn Clüver
Roberta Cohen
Steven Colley
Michael Connolly
Russell Crandall
Jesse Crane-Seeber
Audrey K. Cronin
Patrick M. Cronin

J. Furman Daniel, III
Richard J. Danzig
Stephen Deets
Jacques deLisle
John Delury
I. M. Destler
Daniel H. Deudney
Rush Doshi
Michael W. Doyle
Darcie Draudt
Daniel W. Drezner
Laurie K. Dundon
Martin S. Edwards
Lars Elinderson
Jeffrey A. Engel
Jennifer L. Erickson
Shermineh Esmati
Matthew Fay
Tanisha M. Fazal
James D. Fearon
Niall Ferguson
Stefanie Fishel
Rosemary Foot
Brian Forst
Harry Franqui-Rivera
Lawrence D. Freedman
Ellen L. Frost
Dan J. Futrell
Saul Garlick
Laurie Garrett
Rebecca D. Gibbons
Rachel M. Gisselquist
Stacie E. Goddard
David Gold
Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith
Peter Gourevitch
Ryan D. Grauer
William W. Grimes
Andrew D. Grossman
Mustafa Özen Güner
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Peter M. Haas
Samar Hafida
Stephan Haggard
Sherry Hakimi
Kristen R. Hajduk
Amir Handjani
Lauren Harrison
Roger G. Harrison
Lukas Haynes
William I. Hitchcock
Sarah Holewinski
Russell Hsiao
Roselyn Hsueh
G. John Ikenberry
Richard H. Immerman
Lasha Kasradze
Rose Jackson
Robert Jervis
Anthony Johnson
Juliet Johnson
Miles Kahler
Robert A. Kapp
Jacob D. Kathman
Sean Kay
Michael Kazin
Marla B. Keenan
Kathy Kemper
Joshua D. Kertzer
J. Christian Kessler
Helen M. Kinsella
Jonathan D. Kirshner
Rachel Kleinfeld
Alan M. Kraut
Raymond Kuo
Courtney La Bau
Klaus W. Larres
Stephen Lassiter
Frank Lavin
Mark A. Lawrence
Anka Lee
Melvyn P. Leffler
Robert Legvold
Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Jeffrey Lewis
Peter Liebert
Helen Lindberg
Lach R. Litwer
Fredrik Logevall
Yonatan Lupu
Sumantra Maitra
Hansen Mak
Ryan C. Maness
Robert A. Manning
Giovanni Mantilla
Vic Marsh
Crystal Martin-Nelson
Michael Masserman
M. Brendan McCord
Alexander B. McCoy
Michael A. McDevitt
J. Sherwood McGinnis
Erin C. McGrath
Brendan McKinnon
Robert J. McMahon
Jesse C. Medlong
Rajan Menon
Stephanie C. Merkel
Andrew C. Mertha
James N. Miller
Helen V. Milner
Michelle Moghtader
Brian H. Moore
Theodore H. Moran
Andrew Moravcsik
James A. Morrison
James D. Morrow
Layna Mosley
Adam Mount
Aroop Mukharji
Gautam Mukunda
Jeppe Mulich
Paul Musgrave
John A. Nagl
Nadia Naviwala
Dani K. Nedal
Carl H. Nelson
Daniel H. Nexon
William G. Nomikos
Michael J. O’Halloran
Johna Ohtagaki
Kathryn M. Olesko
Sidney Olinyk
Derek J. Oliver
Lindsey A. O’Rourke
John M. Owen, IV
Won Palisoul
Megan J. Palmer
Ankit Panda
Adam L. Parga
Diane W. Paul
T. J. Pempel
Tom Pepinsky
Aki Peritz
M. J. Peterson
Daniel W. Piccuta
Peter Pizano
Samuel Plapinger
Michael Poznansky
Stephen L. Quackenbush
Mira Rapp-Hooper
Ari Ratner
Iskander Rehman
Robert B. Reich
Cheryl Rofer
Heather M. Roff
Barnett R. Rubin
Vicki Lynn Ruiz
Stephen M. Saideman
Richard J. Samuels
Gregory Sanders
David Santoro
Brent E. Sasley
Cathy L. Schneider
Ali G. Scotten
Maggie Seymour
Shiza Shahid
Martin J. Sherwin
Erin M. Simpson
JP Singh
Randolph M. Siverson
Branislav L. Slantchev
Stan Sloan
Walter B. Slocombe
Cassie Smith-Christmas
Paul Staniland
Jessica Stern
Megan A. Stewart
Devin T. Stewart
Mark Stoler
Sebastian Strauss
Tracy B. Strong
Alexander H. Sullivan
Jeremi Suri
Ariane M. Tabatabai
Justin Talbot-Zorn
Stephen Tankel
Mark Zachary Taylor
Philip E. Tetlock
Shannon Tiezzi
John Tirman
Ann Towns
Peter Trubowitz
Matthew Tyler
Katelyn van Dam
Nicolas van de Walle
Brandon Valeriano
Shawn VanDiver
Linda M. Vincent
Steven K. Vogel
Joshua W. Walker
James Walsh
Barbara Walter
Michael Walzer
Michael Weintraub
Jessica Chen Weiss
David A. Welch
Ralph V. Wilhelm
Celia C. Winkler
Edward Wittenstein
William C. Wohlforth
Michele M. Wucker
Ali Wyne
Michael Yahuda
Andrew I. Yeo
Joseph K. Young
Wendi X. Zhang

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Ali Wyne

Nonresident Fellow, Atlantic Council; Security Fellow, Truman National Security Project