Insights
On tariffs and security
During his election campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump has touted tariffs as a way of protecting American jobs. But the has also announced that once in office he will impose tariffs on products coming from Mexico, Canada and China unless those countries assist him on two entirely separate policy points, assistance in stopping illegal...
The contours of a ceasefire in Ukraine?
Irrespective of what it would look like, a cease-fire in Ukraine would help to take down international tensions, and as such should be welcome. Both sides in the Ukraine war are busy lobbying the incoming Trump administration while trying to position themselves in an optimal way in the battlefield. We have also entered a period where everybody is...
Trump’s apparent policy preferences
A few days after Trump’s election victory in 2016, Russian-American Journalist Masha Gessen’s 2016 published a neawly presicent article in the New York Review of Books. It contains warnings to america about the person just elected as president,. Gessen clearly considered Trump as a would-be autocrat and issued a series of advice to deal with the...