ERKEK, DEVLET VE HİPERERKEKSİLİK: TRUMP’IN ULUSAL GÜVENLİK STRATEJİSİ’NDE ULUSLARARASI DÜZENİN TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYETLİ YENİDEN DÜZENLENİŞİ

ALTERNATIF POLITIKA, cilt.18, sa.2, ss.246-278, 2026 (TRDizin)

This article examines how Donald Trump’s hypermasculine

presidential leadership reshaped the U.S.-led international

order by centering hypermasculinity as a constitutive

dimension of international order. While mainstream IR

accounts explain transformations in U.S. foreign policy

through shifts in power distribution, grand strategy, or

leadership preferences, this article argues that such approaches

neglect the gendered foundations through which U.S. primacy

and hierarchical masculinities are constructed. Drawing on the

concepts of gendered multilevel games, gendered leadership,

and state hypermasculinity, it conceptualizes hypermasculinity

as an interlocking governing rationality operating across

multiple levels of analysis and across diplomatic, structural,

spatial, and virtual dimensions of state power through

presidential leadership. Focusing on Trump’s leadership and a

feminist reading of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy,

it demonstrates how hypermasculine governing rationalitiesreorganize international politics through differentiated

masculinities, particularly via diplomatic hypermasculinity

operationalized through feminization, infantilization,

coercive transactionalism, and demands for gratitude. The

article concludes that presidential hypermasculinity under

conditions of U.S. primacy tends to reproduce security

dilemmas as masculinity dilemmas rather than generating

durable stability.