The following article assesses the changes and continuities of US foreign policy under the (apparent) leadership of the president elected in 2016, Donald Trump. It first shows the huge discrepancies ...between Trump’s campaign rhetoric and his actual decisions in power. It then asks the question of who formulates foreign policy and argues that Trump, lacking the necessary skills to do it himself, is open to a multiplicity of influences. The articles then discusses the areas in which Trumpism is not really challenged by authentic opponents and tackles the issue of Russiagate, which can be seen as more a domestic construction engineered by a democratic Party which refuses to analyze its role in the loss of support that led to its defeat than a bona fide international relations issue. The conclusion argues that Trump is indeed the face of US decline but not the cause of it, for this decline, linked to imperial overstretch, started a long time before his election.
This paper analyses Orwell’s stance as far as the use of foreign words in English is concerned and relates it to his larger political and philosophical views. It deconstructs the perception of Orwell ...as a linguistic chauvinist and focuses on the affinities between Orwell, Russell and Chomsky to make a point about the fight between post-modernists and so-called rationalists.
This article reviews the forms of US militarism as they have evolved since Eisenhower’s famous 1961 speech and presents the deleterious effects military spending has on the social and economic ...well-being of the United States. In particular it shows that military Keynesianism is a blind alley which does not benefit the larger economy. This article will show that militarism impacts the minds of citizens and the contents of political debates and adversely affects the image of the US abroad. It can also be argued that it fosters economic and political decline for the only superpower which is today in competition with emerging rivals.
Bien avant l’arrivée de Donald Trump sur la scène politique, en 2014, un universitaire, Michael Glennon avait publié un ouvrage intitulé National Security and Double Government. La thèse centrale de ...cet ouvrage, inspiré par les théories du penseur britannique Walter Bagehot, est que les États-Unis ont un double système de gouvernement, l’un dit « Madisonien », qui comprend les institutions politiques élues, Président, Congrès et tribunaux, l’autre dit « Trumanite » (ou « trumanien), composé d...
A Tale of Two Anti-Americanisms Guerlain, Pierre
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There is, of course no single American tradition or single American set of values. There are, and always have been, many Americas. We each of us remember and appeal to the Americas we prefer. ...Immanuel Wallerstein What does the term mean? That you’re anti-jazz? Or that you’re opposed to free speech? That you don’t delight in Toni Morrison or John Updike? That you have a quarrel with giant sequoias? Does it mean that you don’t admire the hundreds of thousands of American citizens who marched ag...
Michael Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor who is now active in Canadian politics, represents a school of thought which may be called humanitarian imperialism or liberal imperialism whose most ...famous representative in Europe is Bernard Kouchner. He argues for US interventions in the world (Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq) on account of UN weakness and unwillingness to stop massacres or genocides. In his calls for the US to assume this new burden, Ignatieff mentions all the arguments usually invoked against empires and imperialism only to reject them in a rhetorical twist. He is one of the most articulate advocates of military intervention with a clear conscience. Though he often ends up in agreement with neoconservative or neoliberal imperialists his justifications are more intellectual and convoluted and therefore address a different audience.
This article reviews the foreign policy of the Obama administration with a special focus on the Middle East. It shows the gap between the lofty rhetoric of the President, a great orator, and the ...decisions taken by the Administration. This gap is the inevitable result of the normal play of forces in the decision-making process involving many actors and the interplay of domestic policies and foreign policy. The author argues that if Obama’s foreign policy is analyzed in electoral and domestic terms then it is quite wrong to argue, as some have done, that it is dumb. Smart in electoral terms, however, does not necessarily mean smart on the international stage.
This article is an analysis of the new rhetoric of imperialism developed by Robert Kagan and the wrongly named "neo-conservatives" who have shaped the foreign policy of the Bush Administration. Kagan ...resorts to a gendered view of international relations which idealizes the use of force and reinvigorates the concepts and mental categories of Theodore Roosevelt. Kagan’s dismissal of and scorn for the Europeans critical of the Bush Administration take a pseudo philosophical form but boil down to shopworn biological conceptions. Rather than being typical of American views of Europe, Kagan’s neo-imperialist musings are those of a clearly identified ideological group that now exerts enormous influence over the White House, and are strongly opposed by other Americans.
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