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focaal_admin , April 21st, 2022
It is now becoming overly clear that this cruel and unjustifiable war in and on Ukraine is not going to last ten days – as the strategists in…
focaal_admin , March 11th, 2022
After nearly two weeks of violent conflict in Ukraine, it is increasingly difficult to stand back and see the bigger picture. The West has lined up behind the…
focaal_admin , March 3rd, 2022
The invasion of Ukraine has been a shock not just to Eastern Europe, but to the post World War II international order. While the fundamental tenets of postwar…
focaal_admin , March 1st, 2022
Image 1: Czar Vladimir, by BakeNecko. I like the tone and the global historical perspective of David Harvey’s FocaalBlog article. Harvey’s socialist internationalism versus competitive nation-…
Maurus Reinkowski , January 30th, 2022
Der Westen ist in Afghanistan kläglich gescheitert. Seine vielen Interventionen, selbst noch die gutgemeinten, haben das Land verfehlt – und letztlich zerstört. Für die Bevölkerung und für die…
Maximilian C. Forte , April 29th, 2020
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with generations of its leaders and thinkers…
Maximilian C. Forte , November 28th, 2019
Review of Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips (Introduction by William I. Robinson). New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. LCCN 2018017493; ISBN 9781609808716 (pbk.); ISBN 9781609808723…
Maximilian C. Forte , March 5th, 2019
At the turn of the millennium a trilogy of disasters gained a high profile in the international media. First, in July of 2000 the fiery crash of Air…
Maximilian C. Forte , December 22nd, 2018
JULY June was a month so heavily saturated with key turning point events, that it seemed like the longest month of the year—but then July came. Already, on…
M. Jamil Hanifi , September 28th, 2018
Review of: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories. Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248. The colonial and postcoloni…
Maximilian C. Forte , July 17th, 2018
Finally, on Monday, July 16, 2018, the Helsinki Summit bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump took place, despite shrill demands that it be…
Maximilian C. Forte , June 1st, 2018
“These tariffs are totally unacceptable. For 150 years, Canada has been America’s most steadfast ally. Canadians have served alongside Americans in two world wars and in Korea. From…
Maximilian C. Forte , January 11th, 2018
Has anything out of the ordinary happened to the US as an imperialist power since the ascent of Trump to office? While the continuities between Trump and his…
Maximilian C. Forte , May 8th, 2017
“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,” Donald Trump recently declared, “I’m both”. The only way in which the two (seemingly contradictory) positions can be reconciled is by…
Maximilian C. Forte , October 22nd, 2016
One thing I did not predict is that, even five years later, what happened to Libya and to Muammar Gaddafi would still cast a long shadow across the…
Maximilian C. Forte , October 7th, 2016
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations of the world while its own…
Maximilian Forte , June 24th, 2016
The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance to have a say on one…
Maximilian Forte , March 24th, 2016
Among the dense clouds of speculation from mainstream journalists and the many supposed national security experts whose expertise lies in repeating nothing (“I have been briefed, but I…
Maximilian Forte , February 24th, 2016
Just as the pace of subjecting Libya to a new phase of international discipline quickens, the elites of the small club of recolonizing powers that nominate themselves “the…
Maximilian Forte , February 14th, 2016
There is another rush to war in Libya. Driven by US public alarmism over ISIS, and fronted by Italy, we are now being told by the Italian Defence…
Maximilian Forte , December 1st, 2015
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. Over the…
Maximilian Forte , October 24th, 2015
Imperialism by Invitation or Imitation? US efforts in remaking the international system according to an image reflecting the US are not usually in complete vain since the track…
Maximilian Forte , October 16th, 2015
For an empire whose imperialism is still denied by many, a striking number of terms and concepts have been generated by US leaders that nonetheless are premised on…
Maximilian Forte , October 12th, 2015
From ALERT PRESS: Click here to order a printed copy, or, Click here for the free e-book (pdf) Friends and allies, partners and protégés, extensions and proxies—the vocabulary…