The strategic trinity of the United States, Russia, and China has adopted rhetoric founded in Realism, a theory of politics based around hard power and spheres of influence. THINK’s Jonathan Firbank examines this ‘Performative Realism’, and what it means for a European Union that is increasingly in the trinity’s crosshairs.
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Post-truth populism has secured a powerful mandate in the United States of America. This reflects a trend that extends through the world’s liberal democracies and will invite global imitation. In this opinion piece, Jonathan Firbank describes how post-truth populism works, why it works, and why the American election might show us how to fight it.
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