Donald Trump

Trump’s Dream and Tocqueville’s Nightmare

MJ Fox • Oct 12 2017 • Articles

The current erosion of agency amongst citizens in the U.S. is bringing us closer than ever to Tocqueville’s cautions of the path to despotism

Review Feature – The Experts are Dead, Long Live the Experts!

Antonio Calcara • Oct 7 2017 • Features

Two new books, The Ideas Industry and The Death of Expertise, consider the role of experts in the current US political landscape but reach quite different conclusions.

Pop-Culture & Trump: Interviewing R. Sikoryak, Creator of the Unquotable Trump

Robert A. Saunders • Oct 1 2017 • Articles

Comics – and particularly some of the more epic battles between superheroes and super-villains – present an attractive medium for satirizing Trump.

European Defense: Back to Tervuren?

Gabriela Marin Thornton and Tobias J. Oder • Aug 26 2017 • Articles

The EU has an opportunity to relaunch its military coordination and work towards the Tervuren Summit’s goals: more coordinated and integrated military defense in Europe.

Can the Liberal International Order Survive the ‘Age of Trump’?

Alan S Alexandroff • Aug 25 2017 • Articles

Now is the time to find out if the liberal international order can indeed operate multilaterally with coalitions and importantly with and without the United States.

Pop-culture & Trump, Part I: Five Sci-Fi Films to Watch during the Trumpocalypse

Robert A. Saunders • Aug 24 2017 • Articles

Five speculative/science fiction movies can help us reflect on Donald Trump, his times, and his presidency.

Interview – Julian Go

E-International Relations • Aug 10 2017 • Features

Prof. Go discusses social theory, the need for a ‘third wave’ of postcolonial thought, the dangers of American exceptionalism and identifies the patterns of empire.

EU Security Policy in the Era of Trump: A Radical Account

Michael Merlingen • Aug 1 2017 • Articles

The Trump administration is a reminder to EU governments and elites of the risks of their weakened discursive hegemony over large parts of the population.

Trump’s “Muslim Ban”: A Symptom of White Nationalism in US Politics

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Suzanne van Geuns • Aug 1 2017 • Articles

The democratic challenge of the US in the mediatized world of the 21st century may be to figure out how to govern by problem solving, rather than nation building.

Is Trump the New Multicultural Internationalist?

Patricia Sohn • Jul 21 2017 • Articles

It is time for the Democrats to look at themselves in the mirror. Vanity, thy name is corruption. 

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