Great powers have historically sought regional sway but the president's Venezuela and Greenland gambits risk anything but ...

With the strike on Venezuela, the United States joins Russia and China in carving up the globe into spheres of influence ...

The “spheres of influence” frame doesn’t fit. Trump isn’t carving up the world with rival powers, each staying in their lane. Washington just sent Taiwan its largest-ever arms package, and the ...

China will need to reassess its investment in Venezuela and its understanding of US foreign policy under Trump.

Trump’s approach, whatever its rhetorical excesses, acknowledges what every serious student of international relations understands: Great powers have legitimate security interests in their near abroad ...

In response to the 2025 US National Security Strategy, Japan needs to develop its own defence capabilities and expand access ...

Trump’s new foreign policy leans toward recognizing spheres of influence, departing from past interventionism and potentially avoiding future great power conflicts, especially with China, if handled ...

Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether a return to great power spheres of influence is practical in the twenty ...

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