Pundits love calling President-elect Trump’s leadership “transactional.” But is that true? FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal shares his take in this audio essay from the upcoming print issue of Foreign Policy’s magazine. Take a listen.

Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):

Kori Schake: Why Biden’s Foreign Policy Fell Short

Raghuram Rajan: Isolationism Won’t Make Anyone Great Again

Adam Tooze: America Is Locked in a New Class War

Daniel W. Drezner: Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?

Ravi Agrawal: Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World

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