THE TRUMP/DONROE DOCTRINE AND US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES (2017–2025): THE WORLD AT A TURNING POINT
Summit Book Publishing has released a monograph by Pavlo Hai-Nizhnyk, Doctor of Historical Sciences and leading researcher at the Institute’s Department of Political Culture and Ideology, entitled «The Trump/Donro Doctrine and US National Security Strategy (2017–2025): The World at a Crossroads.”
Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk
The Trump/Donroe Doctrine and US National Security Strategies (2017–2025): The World at a Turning Point / Monograph / Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk. – Kyiv: Summit-Book, 2026. – 232 p., ill.
ISBN 978-966-986-804-6
The monograph analyses the editions of the National Security Strategy (2017 and 2025) developed by the administration of US President Donald Trump during his two terms in office at the White House and their transformation into the Trump Doctrine (the so-called Donroe Doctrine).
In particular, the 2017 National Security Strategy defined the geopolitical priorities of the United States in terms of the spread of Islamic terrorism, the strengthening of the role of Russia and China in the global world, changes in the regional balance of power, the intensification of transnational and migration processes, etc. and for the first time, it was stated that the world had entered an era of strategic competition.
The dominant approach of the United States to ‘preserving peace’ was emphasised as ‘projection of power,’ including through expanding its presence in global cyberspace. Consequently, in 2018, the National Defence Strategy and National Cyber Strategy of the United States were developed. In addition, in 2020 and 2021, the Solarium Commission on Cyberspace released its findings.
Despite the fact that Trump’s first term as president ended in January 2021, it was also studied in order to understand the consistency or fluidity of US foreign policy priorities and the key principles of the Strategy. Trump ended in January 2021, it was also studied in order to understand the consistency or fluidity of US foreign policy priorities and the key principles of the US National Security Strategy under President Biden, in particular in the Interim National Security Strategy Guidance (2021), the National Security Strategy (2022) and the Final Report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Position of the United States (2023), in which the concept of a ‘grey zone’ was used for the first time in high-level American official documents, the definition of a new world order and the possibility of a Third World War were discussed.
The main political groups (factions) surrounding the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, in 2025, which influence the implementation of the geopolitics and geostrategy of official Washington, have been analysed and identified. In November 2025, President Trump signed a new National Security Strategy, which became the official explanation of the Trump administration’s foreign policy worldview and was closely intertwined with his personal vision of the world order and America’s place and role in the international security system. An analysis of the strategy points to a grandiose and radical transformation of the White House’s geostrategic narratives, which influenced global geopolitics and changed the balance of civilisational influences on the world stage.
The main principles of the Trump Doctrine (Donroe Doctrine), its impact on the global security system, the prospects for the transformation of international relations and the establishment of a new world order are analysed.
The author’s vision of two directions of formation of the newest global model of the future world order is proposed: the imperocentric/imperopolar world or the dignuscentric/dignuspolar world (imperacentric world vs dignuscentric world). It is noted that the new world order can prevail not only as a result of a destructive war or the triumph of total chaos, but also as a consequence of a post-conflict compromise or agreement of positions and concessions in taming controlled chaos in order to prevent world ruin.
CONTENTS
Foreword. National Security Strategy as one of the main documents and a “road map” for the state on defense and foreign policy issues: from a formal document to a strategy for preventing new and future threats
Chapter 1. US National Security Strategy – 2017
Chapter 2. US National Defense Strategy and Cyber Strategy – 2018
Chapter 3. US National Security Strategy – 2021/2022
Chapter 4. Old ideologemes of Trump’s new team: the geopolitical grounding of pro-Russian mega-narratives
Chapter 5. US National Security Strategy – 2025 – Trump/Donro Doctrine
Afterword. Donro Doctrine and World Order: Impera-Polarity vs. Dignus-Polarity