... party systems and reactive policies dominating the landscape. Governments struggle to address crises while clinging to outdated ideologies, creating contradictory strategies.
This instability is compounded by growing American interference in Western Europe’s internal affairs. Trump’s administration appears even more reckless in its willingness to meddle, while Musk’s unpredictable influence adds a new dimension to transatlantic relations. European NATO and EU member states, torn between reacting to immediate challenges ...
... would win a second term, but the pandemic messed up everything and cost him the White House. We must assume that Trump and his strategists have not forgotten this experience, and won’t relax. But objectively, the conditions are now favorable.
The EU is at a loss. In the Old World, Trump has been demonized to the maximum extent possible. With the exception of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, no one in the Western European
nomenklatura
can boast productive contacts with the likely future American
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. Macron ...
... two superpowers — the Soviet Union and the United States. Today world politics, the structure of which is not any more bipolar but polycentric, increasingly is revolving around interaction between China and the US.
In spite of the ordeal for the US-European bonds of the Trump years, the traditional part of the Euro-Atlantic establishment, the Atlanticists, have preserved strong positions. They adhere to a vision of international affairs as defined by the West, understood as an alliance of (neo)liberal democracies led ...
