# The MAGA International: Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy as an ideological manifesto
**Date de l'événement :** 17/12/2025
* Publié le 17/12/2025

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On December 4, 2025, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy. Far from being a dry technocratic document, it reads like a blistering broadside against Europe, a reaffirmation of American exceptionalism, and a self-portrait of the president as a heroic defender of Western civilization against mortal threats. It is less a set of policy guidelines than a full-blown ideological proclamation.  
  
In theory, the National Security Strategy (NSS) is a technocratic, non-binding document that every US president must submit to Congress during their time in office to provide an overall framework for the country’s foreign policy.  
  
The version published by the Trump administration in 2025, however, looks far less like a “state paper” than a MAGA (Make America Great Again) manifesto. It panders to Trump’s political base as much as the rest of the world – beginning with Washington’s European allies, accused of betraying “true” democracy. For the first time, compared with the 2017 NSS, national security is framed almost entirely through Trumpian obsessions: immigration, culture wars, and nationalism.  
  
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## Auteur(s)
Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy

### Date
17/12/2025

### Type(s) de ressource
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### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Diplomatie` `#Etat / nation / société` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Amérique du Nord` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

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Lucas Parker / Shutterstock

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### Partenaire(s)
**[The Conversation](https://sources.sciencespo.fr/structure/the-conversation_QdYqgYnzKVyePLgMp3g8)** 


### Hébergeur(s)
`#The Conversation` 

## Autres crédits
**Topic of the picture**: President Donald Trump meets with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on 21 November 2025, to discuss the political challenges facing New York City.

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