Tag: trump cession

Back to the Past? Canada and a Not-So-New World

November 16, 2019

Keynote address to the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), Montréal, 14 November 2019 Let me begin by thanking Chris Kirkey and the Centre for the Study of Canada at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, the sponsors of this ACSUS lunch, for asking me to speak to you today on Canada … More Back to the Past? Canada and a Not-So-New World

The Trump Cession and the Dismantling of American Hegemony

November 12, 2018

President Donald J. Trump has radically disrupted America’s place and role in global politics, accurately fulfilling the compelling characterization by The Economist of the 45th president as an “insurgent” inspired by a “demolition theory of foreign policy.” Some of the disruption has come from Trump’s bizarre and never-before-seen personal diplomacy. After all, we just don’t … More The Trump Cession and the Dismantling of American Hegemony