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Frictions welcomes contributions discussing the current disruptive, unpredictable role of the US in world politics today and its impact on other regions of the world. At the same time, we encourage reflections on other periods of regional and global upheaval that generated phenomena that are gaining resonance today.
Trump’s foreign policy fuels Putin’s agenda, blaming Ukraine for its own invasion while excusing Russian aggression. His admiration for strongmen and disregard for democratic alliances threaten global stability. This isn’t diplomacy, it’s a roadmap to authoritarian dominance via cowboy diplomacy, argues Chris Kostov.
In a hot take on the second Trump presidency, Ulf Brunnbauer sees a fundamental ideological shift in US foreign policy, away from democratic values and towards fascism combined with a Putin-style vision of the world.
Discover Ruth Ferrero-Turrión’s insights on the EU’s response to migration, legitimacy, and geopolitical challenges. Can the Union overcome its “polycrisis” and embrace a unified future?
Mélanie Sadozaï examines how the 2024 LISER conference on “disruptive borderlands” highlighted borders as sites of both crisis and resilience, openness and restriction, urging a shift towards inclusive, cross-border cooperation in policy.
UR historian Timothy Nunan reflects on a month in Ann Arbor and how it enriched his research on Shi’a Islamist transformations of the world in the late 1970s.
Ulf Brunnbauer takes us on a journey from the Adriatic to the Pacific, tracing the interconnections of human, environmental and animal actors who shape the global history of capitalism on multiple scales
How are radical high school protests, environmental extractivism and indigenous identities entangled in Chile? Igor Stipić offers insights based on his ethnographic research
How did participatory remembrance of the Great Terror, from family memory to civil society endeavours, fit in Moscow’s urban and mnemonic landscape shortly before the war against Ukraine? This photo essay offers moving insights
How did the attractiveness of the Mormon embodiment of US utopian, spiritual and material ideals shift in the turbulent realities of post-Soviet Russia? U Georgia historian Joseph Kellner investigates
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