Vassilis Fouskas is a professor of international history, politics, and economics at the University of East London and the author (with Bülent Gökay) of The Fall of the US Empire: Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order and The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism: Global Power-Shift.
Behind the seeming chaos of Trump’s tariff policy, there’s a coherent plan to reboot what Peter Gowan dubbed the “Dollar–Wall Street Regime.” The goal is to strengthen US power around high-tech digital oligarchs, and it might yet succeed on its own terms.