To many who choose to protest, the act of gathering is in itself a powerful form of political influence that they believe can impact public perception of issues, build community, and force political leaders and media organizations to be confronted with the shared grievances. However, the demands of the "No Kings" protest remain noticeably broad, their leadership scattered, and any long-term strategy completely unclear. Those skeptical of the demonstration argue that without a

—Photograph by Carlos Balderas Rodriguez — The United States is at war, and its allies have explicitly refused the call to arms. The world suffocates as 32 member states of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have unanimously agreed to carry out the largest ever release of oil stocks in history in oder to limit shocks to the global energy market. However, in what is perhaps the most staggering display of its lack of authority since the Second World War, the United Stat

Over the past half-century, the world has witnessed the rise and apparent decline of the neoliberal order. Once celebrated as the “end of history” (Fukuyama, 1992), neoliberalism promised boundless prosperity through market liberalization, deregulation, and the free flow of capital. In practice, however, it functioned as a political project to restore class power, systematically weakening organized labor and transferring productive forces to the Global South in search of chea

As the global order shifts away from economic interdependence and the scourge of war continues to plague Ukraine, all while old flames reignite in the Middle East, United States and European relations have entered a new era, one in which the once unthinkable has become all too tenable. The West must now grapple with a series of questions, of which it can no longer afford to procrastinate. Will the EU develop their own army after years of European disarmament? How will Europ

What defines the current geopolitical environment is not the rise of a new world hegemon but the erosion of the old one. As the international order transitions into the "post-Pax Americana" era, the Western alliance faces a historiographical crisis. This essay argues that the United States, and consequently its European allies, are about to enter a phase known as "Hegemonic Humiliation," characterized by a growing prestige gap between a state's self-image as a global arbiter