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%. [
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] Framed as a countermeasure to persistent trade imbalances, this protectionist...
... non-traditional global threats including climate change, cyberattacks, and illicit trafficking. Notwithstanding, conventional power struggles remain deeply ingrained, mainly in the maritime domain where geopolitical competition is continuously reshaping the world order. To explain these complex dynamics, the VUCA framework (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) has long been a benchmark for understanding the global security environment. However, this framework now seems inadequate in capturing ...
What kind of order is it, if it is so easy to disrupt?
The Trump administration's recent announcement of "reciprocal tariffs" has made almost all countries victims of its protectionism. As Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said, the sweeping new tariffs plunged the global trade system into a highly challenging situation. Although the tariffs have had a negative influence on Russia, it has not been directly affected by them. The reason for this is that numerous...
... can outline the most significant accomplishments of that period as well as the most important yet unaccomplished missions that Russia’s leadership will have to work on in the years and even decades to come.
Major Accomplishments
Aleksandr Dynkin:
World Order Transformation: Economy, Ideology, Technology
One of the most significant of Russia’s accomplishments over the last three and a half decades has been its ability to preserve strategic nuclear parity with the United States. In the early 1990s,...
... years. When examining the pulse of world affairs, the first striking feature is the demoralizing state of moral bankruptcy within the current international political order, which was established after World War II and then restructured into a unipolar world order following the Soviet Union’s demise. Indeed, this is not a new thread in the fabric of human existence. Once again, crude survival has overridden higher values and aspirations. In this sense, little has changed over the past years. It has ...
The presidential elections in the United States will determine the future of international relations and become a prologue for a post-Westphalian system of inter-civilizational dialogue
Russia, Europe, and America: Towards a Post-Westphalian World Order
The transformation of the current world order, frequently discussed by numerous experts and scholars as a “global restructuring,” is largely driven by a crisis in nation-states and the underlying cultural code of modern civilization. For ...
.... Adopting this logic, the fading global liberal order (GLO) may be defined similarly; it is neither global, nor liberal, nor orderly. The GLO is not global, as it protects the interests of the few by assisting in the rise of a hegemony and unipolar world order. The order exploits weak but resource-rich nations by colonizing them, providing certain states with opportunities to impose an ideology and values on others. It is not liberal, as it does not allow weak countries to choose their own paths ...
... activities engaging BRICS parliaments, universities and think tanks, civil society institutions and public movements of all kinds.
Timofey Bordachev:
BRICS Before the Kazan Summit: The Dialectic of Creation and Destruction Against the Backdrop of a New World Order
The fundamental challenge for BRICS summits is to gradually shift the focus from rather general political statements to specific proposals and solutions that reflect the fundamental interests of developing nations, which have long been underrepresented ...
... position of a narrow group of states, will be reduced to a minimum.
In these conditions, the international community and especially its leading states are constantly faced with the problem of choosing between two forms of interaction with the outgoing world order: destruction and creation. Both of these forms are in dialectical interaction with each other and it would be strange to think that there is an opportunity to pave a clear and simple path to a new, more just global order. Moreover, the opponents ...
... interaction with the ASEAN states.
Xu Changzhi
The report is in line with the highly changing global context and accurately reflects how Russian and Chinese experts view the new realities and prospects for Russian-Chinese co-operation in building a new world order.
We pay much attention to BRICS and the upcoming summit in Kazan, which is a very important international event at a time of geopolitical instability. China supports Russia's efforts during its chairmanship. BRICS has moved to a new stage ...
