... light” coalition in the Federal Republic of Germany) and December (the European Commission now made up of 27 Commissioners setting to work, early parliamentary elections ruled in Germany). However, it was January 2025 that proved most crucial, with Donald Trump returning to the White House and Brussels presenting the “Strategic Compass,” prepared based off Mario Draghi’s report. The designated period marked the beginning of a new cycle of strategic confrontation between the two key actors ...
... famously observed by Chinese President Xi Jinping when he
said
, “Our world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century.”
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
On April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump
unveiled
an early 20
th
-century type of economic policy, increasing tariffs on countries unseen since the
Great Depression of 1929
. From a
baseline
of 10 percent to a maximum of 46 percent, tariffs are now imposed on state allies and ...
Trump’s tariff hammer and the Mar-a-Lago Accord form a strategic triad—protectionism, fiscal relief, and geopolitical leverage—to reboot U.S. hegemony
Introduction
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a bold escalation in U.S. trade policy, imposing a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a specific 20% tariff on goods from the European Union (EU), up from the previous average tariff rate of 3.5%. [
1
] Framed as a countermeasure ...
... caused by the emerging transatlantic rift. In that case, it also has to consider potential mid- and long-term economic losses linked to numerous disruptions within the global economic system. On top of that, one should not forget that U.S. President Donald Trump continuously threatens to impose further restrictive economic measures, such as new tariffs on Russian oil consumers, on Moscow if Russia does not properly engage in U.S.-mediated Ukraine ceasefire negotiations.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Future ...
... Moscow should have had not only anxieties, but also serious concerns about its possible outcomes. The pathway to the White House was carefully paved for Zelensky by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer; both visited Donald Trump prior to their Ukrainian colleague and both tried hard to convince the US leader to extend maximum support to Kyiv despite earlier Trump’s statements about his intention to cut a “deal” with Vladimir Putin. So, what if Zelensky, being ...
The current discussion surrounding the potential occupation of Gaza raises concerns about a similarly protracted engagement, with significant repercussions for both regional and global stability
Introduction
The United States, under President Donald Trump, has consistently followed a foreign policy that challenges traditional diplomatic practices and questions the settled conventions of international law. With a more aggressive and fierce approach anticipated by the Trump administration in ...
Still, the Trump plan in its current form is only half-baked
Finally, after many leaks, hints, intimations and procrastinations, US President Donald Trump might have come up with something a bit more specific than his initial general promises to put an end to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 24 hours. For the first time a draft of his peace plan is on the table. The plan was revealed by various ...
... respite and will not systematically resolve the contradictions that gave rise to the crisis
The new White House administration in the US has given rise to speculation about negotiations with Russia on the Ukrainian conflict. Newly elected US President Donald Trump has stated that the settlement of the conflict is
a high priority task for the new authorities.
Russia has voiced its openness to negotiations based on the
Istanbul agreements of 2022.
After the inauguration of Trump in January 2025, a ...
... longer.
The US foreign policy shifts will, in their turn, inevitably affect, albeit in uneven and sometimes even not yet predictable ways, all the nations on our planet. Personality differences between still acting President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump could hardly be any sharper. Biden spent most of his adult life as a professional politician who matured during the Cold War and is used to look for diverse foreign challenges and outside threats rising around the United States.
Trump made ...
... Russia continue its “business as usual” aimed at maintaining the existing status-quo or will it be forced to review and to revise its positions towards Israel, Palestinians, Iran and its main partners in the Arab world?
The spectacular comeback of Donald Trump to the White House will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the US overall international positioning, as well as on specific dimensions of the US approaches to various regions of the world. Of course, the US foreign policy has a bipartisan ...
