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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In a country where ‘political allegiance’ often seems like an end in itself, it should have to take extraordinary circumstances to shake up one’s political allegiances.
Yet recent history seems to point in a different direction. Limits to party loyalty do exist, but they are often rooted in matters of the heart: issues that may be unrelated to ‘politics’ in the narrower sense; and which may even appear trivial to anyone who doesn’t share such emotional bonds.
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