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On December 7, 2024, Interfax news agency published an article about the inter-institutional seminar “American Fragments: Exploring a Polarized Country” devoted to the current state of the United States and the impact of the presidential election results on the political and economic situation in this country.

Opening the seminar, Victoria Zhuravleva, Deputy Director of IMEMO, the Head of the Center for North American Studies, noted that the goal of the seminar was not to analyze the course of the US presidential campaign over and over again, but to try to examine “the essence of what the US political process represents today” and what we can expect from the upcoming four-year rule of the new US President Donald Trump.

The speakers, who were researchers from two IMEMO centers: The Center for North American Studies and the Center for Strategic Planning Studies, as well as invitees from other research institutions, analyzed the political situation in the United States from different angles. In particular, they considered the level of party confrontation and the problem of migration, the influence of racial differences on political life in the country.

But of particular interest was the discussion of possible upcoming changes in the economic policy of the state under the new president.