Keylor Publishes Op-Ed on Macron-Trump Relationship
William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent article on the developing relationship between United States President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Keylor was interviewed for a February 5, 2018 article in The Globe Post entitled “For Ambitious Macron, Trump’s America First is Welcome Step.”
From the text of the article:
President Donald J. Trump will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron sometime this spring for the first state dinner of his presidency. Both men were elected president as outsiders with minimal governmental experience.
The two leaders have not had a warm relationship in their few encounters since their presidential elections. When Mr. Trump announced plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord to which Mr. Macron mocked the American president’s pledge to “make America great again” by inviting American scientists that are studying climate change to come to France and help “make our planet great again.”
Before a NATO summit in Brussels, the French ambassador to Washington warned Mr. Macron that the U.S. president was a “domineering hand-shaker” intent on showing who is boss in a mano a mano encounter. Forewarned, the French president grasped his American counterpart’s hand in such a white-knuckle grip that Mr. Trump had to wrestle to get free.
Keylor served four consecutive terms as Chairman of the Department of History at Boston University (1988-2000) and has been Director of the International History Institute since 1999. At Boston University, he has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award.