Contribute to the debates on the impact of the US disruptive foreign policy and the transformations it could engender in the international order and relations. We also welcome pieces offering historical reflections on phenomena inspired by the Trumpian turn. Frictions welcomes contributions in multiple formats. The editors will seek to publish ideas quickly, given the pressing nature of ongoing developments.

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What happens when the future loses its place in our cultural imagination—not as a speculative tool or techno-utopia, but as a generative and affectively charged dimension of political and social life? And how might we cultivate futures thinking in contexts where the very notion of ‘moving forward’ is contested terrain? Drawing on the experiences of conflict-affected and post-conflict societies, Katarina Damčević argues that the futures we can imagine—and who gets to imagine them—depend on the…