Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump

Abstract In this article, we propose the category of “foreign policy performance” in order to argue that a recognition foreign policy's theatricality can illuminate its contribution generative processes social construction and world-making. We focus on practice summit diplomacy, which operates according “theatrical rationality” blurs boundary between substantive symbolic politics. Noting Donald Trump's presidency called into question many international relations’ prevailing assumptions regarding formulation execution, suggest performance-oriented analytic facilitate critical reckoning both with Trump himself “statesmanlike” norms he eschewed. read performances at summits reference professional wrestling, for all melodramatic absurdity is venerable complex theatrical tradition highly developed language. Guided by four pieces wrestling argot (“heat,” “heel,” “kayfabe,” “cutting promo”), use process-tracing techniques develop wrestling-oriented reading 2018 Kim Jong-Un Singapore. using Kim's deviation from conventional repertoires performance enables assessment stakes play their reconstruction re-establishment.