JD Vance is at the heart of this world view, which prises imperial strength, tradition, faith and hierarchical order over the liberal internationalist regime across the Atlantic

Tackling the State’s problems requires structural change to decentralise and redemocratise power

Etain Tannam argues that John Hume’s central three-stranded idea for the agreement has been neglected

Worldview: Ireland was a pioneer settler colony of England

Worldview: Donald Trump must steer a path between the domestic promise of no more foreign wars and Netanyahu’s serial gambles on his support in Gaza and Iran

Worldview: ‘Barbarian’ is a term occurring in most civilisations to describe less well organised neighbours and colonial adversaries

Critics have begun to ask if Israel can still convincingly present itself as a safe haven for Jews

Worldview: The history of the so-called Gilded Age in America reveals massacres, ethnic cleansing and inhumanity on an unthinkable scale

Worldview: Outsiders can see Europe’s problems more clearly than Europeans can

Worldview: Europe can respond by developing links with China, Africa and the middle powers now asserting their role

Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First

Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success

Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements

Worldview: Improving local democracy should be a priority in talks on the formation of the next government

There are deep contradictions between Trump’s policies which empower the super-rich and the interests of left behind communities he pretends to represent