USA: FUNCTIONALISM VS INTENTIONALISM 2.0 IF TRUMP WINS THE ELECTIONS, WILL HE TRULY BE FREE? WILL FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY OR WILL EVERYTHING REMAIN THE SAME? "I desired the supreme power. I desired it so that I might put my own plans into effect, try my remedies, restore peace. I wanted it above all in order to become my full self before I died" said Hadrian in Yourcenar's famous novel. A humanly understandable desire to decide beyond the vainglorious and changing plans of others, a desire secretly cherished by many heads of state, but is it an achievable aspiration or rather an unattainable chimera? Can power truly be "absolute" (Lat. absolutus ), "free" from any constraint and interference from outside? Even though today functionalism and intentionalism are almost exclusively associated with the historiographical debate on the Holocaust, there is, in epistemology as well as in the methodology of historical research (often Marxist in natur...