Washington and the faltering transition to power

Despite the results’ announcement, the controversy over the US presidential elections is still going on, as uncertainty and haziness prevail in a scene fairly open to all options including political, or even security, escalation.

Between Allies and Adversities: What Does Biden's Victory Imply?

Joe Biden never stopped stressing – ever since he was still a candidate – his promises to put the United States back on the global arena, rehabilitate relations with allies and curb competitors, in a time where the whole world is observing this traditional American discourse welcoming and anticipating. This material studies the shape of foreign affairs that will be adopted by the newly elected president, it also seeks to answer an important question: what are the variables and invariables that we will witness in policies compared to those of the outgoing president Donald Trump?

Gifts and Inheritance: The Middle East from Trump to Biden

On the Regulation of US Tech Sector

Controversy over the economic and social role played by big US tech companies escalates from time to time, particularly after debate has been brought to the corridors of the legislative and executive institutions. This article provides an analysis of the events surrounding the US tech sector regulation lawsuits.

A quite exceptional American elections

Five days after global anticipation of the US election results, Joe Biden announces himself the 46th President of the United States, despite Donald Trump refusal to concede defeat. What do we make of the present political scene in the United States? Will the battle over the most powerful and highest-level executive position continue in Washington? What are the main foreign policy issues facing the next administration?

The Donkey & Elephant Race

Since it is not just a presidential election, but an inauguration of the “most powerful leader” in the world who will be on the throne of the largest economy and military capabilities, the latest and most accurate technology, and the most political power in the world, the US presidential election occurrence had become a global media event that people closely follow it from the primaries until after polling day, despite the rare coverage of the US foreign policy during its campaigns.

Social media: orienting voters or just interacting opinions?

“Social media have gone from being the natural infrastructure for sharing collective grievances and coordinating civic engagement to being a computational tool for social control, manipulated by canny political consultants and available to politicians in democracies and dictatorships alike.” This is how social media is described in a report – made by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, social media analysis firm - on the employment of Russian semi-governmental entities of major social media platforms with the aim of interfering in the course of the 2016 US presidential elections. The following article highlights the role of social media in the 2020 elections and its decisive role in influencing the American electorate.

Scenarios for the next president in light of opinion polls

Opinion polls of the 2020 elections, as well as US elections in general, largely attract lots of attention, follow-up and controversy. Despite their inability to determine the final winner, they provide important insight into the preferences of American voters preceding polling day (on November 3, 2020). Having regard to that, this article examines four potential scenarios for the candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump winning the election, based on an analytical perspective of various polls.

Assessment of the effectiveness of US sanctions policy

As the scale of US sanctions –used as a major means of achieving US foreign policy goals- has been widening under Trump’s administration, it is imperative, at the by the end of its four-year term, to evaluate the effectiveness of the imposed sanctions and to shed light mainly on the negative repercussions that have affected the durability of Washington's strategic position in the international arena.