20/01/2025

Podcast

About That New World You Ordered | View from the Danube #3 (AUDIO)

As the Trump 2 era dawns, the talk is all of a price on Greenland and the kowtowing of Canada. The Mar-a-lago world view that is emerging is one based on shoring up America’s geographical power. We’re back into the world of hemispheres - of the Monroe Doctrine, and implied spheres of influence. So what happens when America pulls away from the abstractions of the ‘rules based international order’, and re-enters the world of territory and pseudo-empires? This time on The View From The Danube, host Rod Dreher, the Danube Institute’s Senior Fellow, is joined by renowned geopolitical scholar Dr Gladden Pappin, President of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. And Liliana Śmiech, a Pole based in Budapest, who is the Director-General for International Affairs, at the Ludovika University of Public Service. Along with the Danube Institute’s Director of Research, Dr Calum Nicholson, the panel consider the implications of this new Great Game for Europe. Once the forge of empires, in the 21st century it has become suborned to America’s military might. Will Trumpism 2 mean a pulling back from America’s implied military protections? How will the continent's ailing great powers cope? How can it maintain itself in a world where being ‘a regulation superpower’ won’t even be a droll punchline?