Bulent Gokay is Professor of International Relations at SPIRE, Keele University and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay are the authors of Power Shift. The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism, forthcoming by Palgrave-Macmillan in November 2018, their third joint monograph completing a trilogy on the structural decline of the USA as global superpower.
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Published in: HomeThe US-Turkey stand-off in context: the US and the weaponisation of global financeThe US, a declining superpower, is trying to use the power of the dollar as a weapon to punish Turkey and other...
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Published in: HomeClass, Trump, Brexit, and the decline of the WestIn politics, long-term socio-economic trends and global shifts matter more than often overstated ‘progressive’...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill Chilcot mention the real reasons for the Iraq War and the hundreds of thousands who have died since March 2003?As all sides are protecting their interests, who counts the lost lives alongside their own economic and political benefits?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU referendum - most important decision of our times? Really?Nothing will be as good outside the EU as LEAVE suggests: the world won't collapse as REMAIN implies. It is a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Iraq and Syria didn’t create ISIS - we didAfter the Paris attacks, ISIS became yesterday’s story, as if the terrorist movement had disappeared into far lands...
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Published in: HomeBody counting and precision bombing in failed statesThe words ‘precision-guided missiles’ are used to make us think that British warplanes can go there and help the...