POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Protection Racket, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Paper Tiger
29 Mar 2017
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The impact of the rise of trump must be looked at in relation to the rise of china. The grand narrative does not cope well with surprises such as the cold war and now the. Trump administration can be seen as both ceding global hegemony and also global leadership. This is an accepted hegemony that is being ceded much the like the accepted hegemony of imperial china. Ceding the power that comes with the international system believing that as leaders. The trump cession and relations with the three main actors of the world"s russia, europe, and china . Russia: trump has never denounced russia even with ukraine and the direct threat to the balkans along with desire to dominate in the middle east. Others in the western alliance overtly criticise putin willingness to engage in violent power assertion. By trump taking the position that he has, he cedes to the russian federation something other governments have not wanted to do.
