Trump is forging ahead with a new era of imperialism not seen since McKinley
Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale
Complacent liberals were too slow to see Trump coming
Worldview: Outsiders can see Europe’s problems more clearly than Europeans can
Trump is shattering the European diplomatic and political landscape
Worldview: Europe can respond by developing links with China, Africa and the middle powers now asserting their role
Ireland and the EU need to forge a relationship with the Global South
Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First
How will the contradictions in Trump’s policies play out?
Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success
The world is no longer multipolar - it is ‘multiplex’
Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements
Local politicians are overworked, underpaid and unrepresentative
Worldview: Improving local democracy should be a priority in talks on the formation of the next government
You can’t make America great again if wealth inequalities continue to double and tariffs push up prices
There are deep contradictions between Trump’s policies which empower the super-rich and the interests of left behind communities he pretends to represent
Netanyahu’s strategy of calculated risks and provocative escalation distracts from his low politics
Worldview: Taking on Hizbullah and Iran and showcasing Israel’s mastery of intelligence boosted his popularity, forestalling an early election and political reckoning
Rules-based international order is a poor substitute for the vision of the UN’s founders
Worldview: The United Nations, marginalised in the competition between the US, China and Russia and their emerging blocs, needs a radical overhaul
There are good reasons for Irish people to pay close attention to what’s happening in Scotland
Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland
Ukraine incursion into Russia could make it easier to talk about peace negotiations
Worldview: Public opinion is changing in Ukraine, with 44 per cent support for peace talks
JD Vance is part of a new generation of aristopopulists seeking regime change
Worldview: Vance’s thinking draws on a serious body of conservative political, policy and intellectual ideas from recent years
History suggests democracy will not be saved by further disconnection of economy from society
There are significant parallels - and differences - between countermovements that gripped Europe and the US about 100 years ago and forces shaping politics today
Englishness and Britishness are not the same. That matters as nationalism resurges in the UK
Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?