FILES OF THE PRESENT N°65: “THE TRUMP REALITY”
A special edition on the elections in the United States with the best national and international analysts.
The 65th issue of the Files of the Present Magazine has as its main theme the victory of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the potential consequences for the world, in general, and for our region, in particular. The analysis of this historical fact brings together various positions analyzed by Alberto Ferrari Etcheberry in his article "It's inequality, stupid"; Francis Fukuyama, "Deterioration or renewal of American politics?"; Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, "Argentina and Trump", and Francisco de Santibañes, "Trump: The beginning of a new era?" In addition, this section includes an article by the outgoing Vice President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr., called "Building on Success."
In the Letter from the Director, Aníbal Jozami points out that “The end of 2016 also marks the end of a process initiated with the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty-seven years ago. At that time, it was considered that this fact implied the accelerated end of a century characterized by the two great wars and the beginning of a new stage of great advances in stability and peace that would favor the integration processes”. However, Jozami argues that “Today, fanatic fundamentalism is being confronted with the same methods as those we must fight, creating resentment that will in turn generate more terrorism. To the politics chosen in the war, which has led to the disappearance of former countries, the political misunderstanding of the real problems of society and widespread dissatisfaction. This has led to three successive elections in the world showing results caused by the tiredness of people in politics and politicians, as they move away from the feeling of the citizen who does not feel content or represented”.
In the international news section, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, current Foreign Minister of Germany, discusses, in his article "The new global role of Germany", the need to explain foreign policy more clearly from the consolidation of Germany as a European power, facing a world in the process of transformation, in which it remained stable thanks to the economic reforms promoted in 2003 by Chancellor Schröder. Steinmeier also highlights the country's military role, condemned for its past.
The article “Changes and conflicts in today's world” by Bertrand Badie proposes a new way of approaching international relations based on globalization, as a revolutionary phenomenon in communications, which allows the crossing of state borders. In addition, it analyzes how at present and in the face of the growing paralysis of politics, social challenges must be the central themes of the international agenda. Finally, Lionel Zinsou, a Franco-Beninese economist, describes in his article “Africa in transformation” how, in the last two decades, Africa's growth in various sectors places it as the continent that has been transformed at a pace never seen in the past history.
The section dedicated to Latin America includes the article “Argentina, the first country to recognize the independence of Brazil”, by the Brazilian academic and diplomat Rodrigo Wiese Randig, in which, with proper documentation, he stands for the notion that the first international recognition of the Constitutional Empire of Brazil did not come from either the United States or the Benin Empire as it was assumed, but two years before Argentina had already recognized it. In turn, Sergio Cesarin and Virginia Papini present the article "Skipping Peripheries" in which they detail the various strategies through which Argentina tries to reduce the gap opened by an asymmetric and deficient economic-commercial relationship with China.
In addition, the article "Malvinas: do not lower arms" by Victorio Taccetti performs an analysis of the Joint Communiqué issued by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and Great Britain and the possible consequences that it could have regarding the struggle for the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and the South Atlantic. To close the section, Luis Blaum, in his article "The Argentine obstinacy", points out that inequalities in the world continue to increase despite the fact that a huge portion of the planetary population has recently began its incorporation into the modernizing process and capitalism has generated a huge leap in the production of wealth and the improvement of health conditions.
The publication also contains a review by Vicente Guillermo Arnaud on the similarities between the thought of Manuel Belgrano and Pope Francis, establishing as a starting point the instruction and education to carry out civilizing actions and overcome the existing ignorance, idleness, neglect and corruption.
In our art section, it is possible to find the interview conducted by Aníbal Jozami and Diana Weschler to Amos Gitai, Israeli filmmaker, artist and architect, in which he analyzes the evolution of his cinematic look on conflictive and sensitive issues from its beginnings to the present and, on the other hand, it details the relationship between documentary and fiction that exists in his filmography.
Finally, Files of the Present also includes a special selection of the articles of the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine. Stephen Walt, a professor at the Robert and Renée Belfer Center for International Relations at Harvard University, presents a critical view of certain policies of the governments of the United States, Germany and Russia. In his article "How not to be a civilization", David Rothkoff raises the inability of human beings to interpret the signals that the planet is giving us about climate change. James Bamford, on his article “Every move you make”, recounts the creation and analyzes the purpose of the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the world created during the Obama administration. Finally, an article by Gillian Tett titled "Through the Looking Glass", and the piece "Man of the World" by Adam Kirsch is also included.
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