The Perilous Context of Trumps Policy

The Perilous Context of Trumps Policy

Blent Gkay and Vassilis K. FouskasDownload PDFApr 18 20251viewsPhil Mistry/ShutterstockOver the last twenty years or so, using a wide range of empirical data and drawing from the works of Andre Gunder Frank, Peter Gowan and world system theorists, we have produced a trilogy whose key tenet is that the American system of global imperial governance established in the 1940s has, since the end o

Tariffs, deportations, territorial annexations, bet on fossil fuels, histrionic messages on social networks, corporate presence in government... The policies of the Trump administration cannot be understood separately, as they form a coherent whole that is far from being the improvisation of a madman. This text fills them under the umbrella of the struggle for global hegemony.

The Perilous Context of Trump’s Policy

Trump isn't an outlier; he embodies the genuine interests of a waning superpower, whose policies mirror the conflicting and shifting global reality he navigates.