Özet AB ve ABD arasında serbest ticaret bölgesi kurulmasını hedefleyen Transatlantik Ticaret ve Yatırım Ortaklığı Antlaşması (TTYO),

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The relations between the European Union (EU) member states and the United States (US) have a long-standing past; these relations are built upon their collective victory in two World wars and the cooperation for rebuilding the European continent. Both parties have laid the foundations for the liberal system by creating economic and security organisations after the Second World War, establishing the normative order together. The positive dialogue between the leaders that has lasted for years, the collaboration between the elites and bureaucrats, the common perception of the public, and shared memories have maintained the continuity of the relations. However, the economic crisis in 2008 and the subsequent Arab Spring have turned the question of refugees into a serious problem while bringing about the rise of the far-right in both Europe and the US. Within this framework, populist appeals have started to gain ground, indicating the erosion of adopted values such as democracy, liberalism, and pluralism. The foreign policy and political attitude of Donald Trump deviating from previous presidents have provoked unprecedented crises between the EU and the US, shaking the foundations of the liberal World order like multilateralism, collective security, and global economy. The foreign policy doctrine followed by Trump consisting of realist appeals such as cost-benefit analysis, the superiority of national interests, and the deviation from multilateralism, which is also called principled realism by Trump, has brought about a significant confidence crisis in the relations of the US with the EU. In this respect, this article examines the EU-US relations under the presidency of Trump in consideration of the way how foundations such as common values, the future of collective security, and the continuity of the liberal economy are affected during this period. It argues that the said problems are temporal and

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Since the end of the Cold War, the US and its Western allies have dominated international relations through various political and economic institutions. However, with the rise of new power centers, Western governance and US dominance began to be questioned, including by Russia and China. Among other efforts, Russia and China decided to empower the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in order to attain regional security, establish a new energy club and reduce US influence in the region. Although the SCO lacks the material and political capacity to confront US interests directly, this organization has become an important tool to balance the US through the soft balancing policies of Russia and China. This article evaluates the posssibility of Sino-Russian collaboration through the SCO in terms of balancing the dominance of the US. ÖZET Soğuk Savaş'ın bitişinden buyana ABD ve Batılı müttefikleri, uluslararası ilişkileri politik ve ekonomik kurumlar aracılığıyla domine etmişlerdir. Ancak, yeni güç merkezlerinin yükselişi ile birlikte, Batı'nın yönetim anlayışı ve ABD'nin üstünlüğü özellikle Rusya ve Çin tarafından sorgulanmaya başlanmıştır. Rusya ve Çin, diğer çabalarının yanı sıra, bölgesel güvenliği sağlamak, yeni bir enerji klübü oluşturmak ve bölgedeki ABD etkisini sonra erdirmek için Şangay İşbirliği Örgütü'nü (ŞİÖ) güçlendirmeye karar vermişlerdir. ŞİÖ'nün materyal ve politik kapasitesi, ABD çıkarlarına doğrudan karşı koymak için henüz yetersiz olsa da örgüt, Rusya ve Çin'in ABD'ye karşı izledikleri yumuşak dengeleme politikalarının önemli araçlarından biri haline gelmiştir. Bu çalışma, Şangay İşbirliği Örgütü vasıtasıyla, Rusya ve Çin'in ABD'yi dengeleme çabasının ne derece mümkün olduğunu değerlendirecektir.