Iran ’26 as a Road to the Imperial Presidency (opens in new tab)

Donald Trump sees himself among a line of historical figures in which foreign-policy gestures of punitive, yet “just”, power cohere into a single narrative. One can speak of an emerging imperial narrative—and of the United States as the heir to Europe’s traditional values, as Donald Trump and his team remind the Old World, writes Natalia Tsvetkova, Acting Director of the Arbatov Institute of the USA and Canada at the Russian Academy of Sciences.