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Too much (therefore superficial and mechanical) political realism often leads to the assertion that a statesman should only work within the limits of ‘effective reality’; that he should not interest himself in what ‘ought to be’ but only in what ‘is.’ This would mean that he should not look farther
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1. The US is a declining hegemon. Trump’s MAGA project is designed to reassert the power of a declining hegemon. It is an attempt to make the world ‘great again’ for the US ruling class. It is a pivot away from an ‘international order’ Washington regards as no longer
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One yardstick of the magnitude of crises engulfing our planet is the increased difficulty in writing any sort of end-of-year reviews. Genocide, war, famine, social explosion – what a decade ago would have been year-defining events now jostle for adequate coverage. In 2025, history’s ghosts have come