Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, meets with U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego in March 2023 as part of AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between three countries.
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Srdjan Vucetic, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
AUKUS faces political challenges right now, and the next year may bring even deeper problems. Big-picture geopolitical realities suggest AUKUS will survive.
Cargo containers are seen on the Maersk Stockholm ship while docked at port in Vancouver in April 2023.
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Contemporary conservatives have largely been pro-free trade. That’s no longer the case. What’s fuelling the change?
Donald Trump, left, and Harry Truman: Two former presidents who had different ideas about nationalism and patriotism.
The Conversation, with images from Wikimedia Commons
A scholar of extremism attended the CPAC meeting in March, in part to try to understand political polarization, and only saw signs of a worsening divide.
The Unfolding is fiction: a made-up story of American politics. But just like in the real United States, the lines between truth and fantasy in this novel are perilously thin.
In a post-Trump era, the GOP must decide which of the former president’s policies to keep – and which to scrap.
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African evangelism is born from – and often funded by – American evangelism, and with it comes a damaging cocktail of rightwing ideologies, especially during the Donald Trump years.
Biden’s is entrusting Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken to set U.S. foreign policy on a different course.
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Four years of ‘America First’ has seen the US retreat from the world. But as a scholar of international relations explains, Biden could return Washington to the role of a more moral global leader.
Biden says his Cabinet picks will help him restore American leadership in the world.
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Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party will try to undermine union leaders by playing to the economic nationalist fears some have been stoking for years.
As president, Trump has cultivated close relations with autocratic leaders while distancing the U.S. from its traditional allies in Europe and Asia.
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Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
In this June 2019 photo, U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, western Japan.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government seems helpless and confused on how to manage the tensions between the United States and China after being caught in the conflict’s crosshairs.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Most Americans don’t want the United States to be the world’s policeman. Do the experts agree?
Is there really a strong division between folks like Brexit leader Farage and global citizens Bill Gates and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau?
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam