The declarations about Greenland and the Panama Canal are more than just another example of Trump’s trolling-as-policymaking. They are expressions of US imperial atavism.
Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula,Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring. Extractive Capitalism is due in May.
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