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GKAT Lecture  The Fate of Contested States in Transactional International Relations

  • Thursday, 23. October 2025, 18:15
  • Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, HCA Atrium, Hauptstraße 120, 69117 Heidelberg
    • Dr. Gezim Visoka, Dublin City University (Irland), School of Law and Government

The return of Donald Trump as U.S. President has profoundly shaken transatlantic relations, deepened distrust between American and European partners, and returned transactional territorial peace as a doctrine for conflict resolution. This lecture will probe the impact of transactional international relations on contested states that may be at war, partially recognized, and fragile to unwillful foreign intervention.

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The DFG-funded Research Training Group „Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics“ (GKAT) is based at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies of Heidelberg University. It aims at a systematic and interdisciplinary inquiry into the emergence and transformation of authority and trust in American politics, society, religion, literature and culture since the nineteenth century.