Francisco Rodríguez Jiménez is Professor at the University of Extremadura. He was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University; a Fulbright Scholar twice, at George Washington University and American University; and a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Americas Institute, the Instituto de Ciências Sociais in Lisbon, Johns Hopkins University–Bologna, etc. Francisco has edited several books, among the latest: Franquismo, Autarquía y Relaciones Internacionales en los «años del hambre»; US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America during the Sixties; Estados Unidos y América Latina: entre Modernización y Contrainsurgencia; US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain. Rodríguez-Jiménez's media appearances include, among others, Georgetown podcast Y Esto No es Todo; Fair Observer; NTN24; RTVE; RTP2-Portugal; ENJAKE-ETB; Cadena Cope; the Spanish podcast of the Washington Post; D-Max; Canal Sur. Rodríguez-Jiménez serves (or has acted) as an international reviewer for the European Commission’s Research Agency (Horizon 2020 and Marie Curie Actions) and the Fulbright Screening Committees.

Trump did not invent “America First.” That idea is almost as old as the United States itself. The two “souls” of US foreign policy have been taking shape since the late eighteenth century. On the one hand is the propensity of the United States to intervene in places far from its own borders; on the other, its tendency toward introspection and isolationism. Will the United States return to the path of multilateral foreign policy, or will the shadow of “international Trumpism” loom large, lasting even longer than Trump’s current term?