By Islam Farag, Cairo / Egypt Despite his departure from the White House in 2021, Gulf states’ ties to US President Donald Trump have not been severed. The Trump Organization has struck business deals with a number of his allies in the region, notably the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has maintained close ties to Gulf ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist In his first term, Trump was described as an “unpredictable leader” both within the US and internationally: He did not speak the international diplomatic language, did not use the readings of analysts, and pursued an unorthodox strategic approach rather than the maneuvers of experienced politicians. Trump is neither Bill Clinton, a graduate of Yale University, ...
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 the significance of the election extends way beyond these ...
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 not have great expectations, but rather great fears from Donald Trump, the new occupant of the White House, ...
By Yunus Soner 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 report for Donald Trump. As such, the ...
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 will surely be the items ...
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 US begins to lose its global dominance, it will abandon the traditional rhetoric ...
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. He advocated for collaboration with Russia in the fight against ISIS in ...