No previous fascism made it past its youth. This one is a late-stage fascism. It necessarily takes some styles and structures from late-stage Soviet Communism.
Ira Straus
Ira Straus is the Chair, Center for War/Peace Studies and U.S. Coordinator, Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO.
Donald Trump: King of Global Trade?
With Canada and Mexico in the bag, Europe and the Pacific are the next places for Trump to take his trade show.
Remembering the Start of Globalization
The train of globalization left the station when Columbus reached the Americas. It will never go back.
Trump and the Minimum Wage: How to Trade with Mexico
The Trump trade deal with Mexico is, in a smaller way for now, another of those rare Nixon in China moments. It has the potential to alter the arc of contemporary history.
A Preview of Donald Trump’s Next Speech on Erdogan’s Turkey
Reflections on how to Make Turkey Great Again.
Is Erdogan a Leninist?
The devious art of categorizing all political enemies as “terrorists”
Turkey’s Totalitarian Democracy
Reflections on the emerging totalitarian form of Islamic democracy.
Why the United States and the West Can’t Win With Turkey
Examining the perfectly closed loops of circular Islamist thinking.
The Optical Illusion of Western Decline (Part II)
Why is the false narrative of Western decline so persistent?
Toward a Pacific-Oriented America? (Part I)
Is the United States really shifting from an Atlantic to an Asia-Pacific orientation?
Stephan Richter discusses Brexit on Germany's ARD-Presseclub (April 14, 2019)
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