The neocon “Greater Middle East Project” is at stake. By Fikret Akfırat Francis Fukuyama, a former neocon but popular neoliberal ideologue, sees Trump’s election victory as “the end of neoliberalism.” He writes that “the blowout victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday night will lead to major changes in important policy areas, from immigration to Ukraine. But ...
Whoever in our region bets on the occupant of the White House must prepare for a new disappointment. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt While criticism of American policy is increasing in the Arab world, and some like to raise expectations from the new American president, on the other hand, we see that the majority of Arab public opinion does ...
Journalists from Egypt, Iran, and Türkiye commented on its possibilities. Anti-Trump protests after his election took place in front of her, an indication of the influence of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative tink tank founded in 1973. Since 1981 it has published the Mandate to Leadership, a programmatic text for the president-elect. In 2023, it released its latest nearly 900-page ...
A view from Latin America. By Prof Dr Fernando Esteche, Buenos Aires / Argentina The non-consecutive re-election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States of America invites us to reflect on what Latin America and the Caribbean should expect in its historical relationship of dependence and colonialism with the decadent imperial metropolis. Trade, migration, and hemispheric security ...
The US is reluctantly abandoning its attempt to maintain a unipolar world order. By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China Trump’s re-election highlights the weakening of current US hegemony, while also exposing a radical fracture in the US-led international order. Over the last two decades, US global hegemony has been seriously shaken by political, economic, and military crises and defeats. As the ...
Ukraine War, cracks in NATO, trade war and the support for Israel. By Ali Rıza Taşdelen Donald Trump has been reelected, sparking concerns across Europe. The Atlanticist media are recalling the tensions that marked US-Europe relations from 2017 to 2021 during Trump’s first term as president. Before the 2016 election, Trump’s rhetoric notably diverged from that of aggressive globalist neoconservatives. ...