Key takeaways • Two political scientists have proposed “neoroyalism” as a new framework to understand Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The idea is that the administration often behaves more like a royal family in medieval Europe than a modern nation-state • Signs of neoroyalism are the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy, Trump’s habit of handling negotiations through family members and old business partners rather than the traditional bureaucracy, and his habit of enforcing global hierarchy by undermining the sovereignty of weaker nations. • Trump isn’t the first modern leader to act this way, but given the importance of the United States system, he has the power to shape the global system and turn this type of politics into the norm.

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