This paper seeks to advance the study of the nexus of populism and foreign policy by showing the connection between the personality traits of the leader and the foreign policy behavior of the state that they represent. It focuses on the political personality profiles of two populist leaders who can be characterized as antiplural, Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump, as a way to empirically further substantiate the recent research agenda on populism in world politics. The paper builds the two populist leaders’ political profiles through the use of the leader trait analysis approach. It contends that there are patterns in populist leaders’ personalities that can act as key drivers of their noncooperative and conflict-inducing behavior in foreign policy. The results show the characteristics that appear as the strongest predictors of their behavior in the international arena are their low task orientation and high focus on relationships.

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民粹主义领导人的人格特征及其外交政策：雨果·查韦斯和唐纳德·特朗普

本文旨在通过展示领导人的人格特质与其所代表的国家的外交政策行为之间的联系来推进对民粹主义与外交政策关系的研究。它侧重于两位可被描述为反复数的民粹主义领导人雨果·查韦斯和唐纳德·特朗普的政治人格概况，以此作为实证进一步证实最近关于世界政治中民粹主义研究议程的一种方式。本文通过使用领导人特质分析方法，构建了两位民粹主义领导人的政治形象。它认为，民粹主义领导人的性格模式可以成为他们在外交政策中不合作和引发冲突的行为的关键驱动因素。