And as it has done during previous protests, the regime is responding by cutting off the country’s Internet access, unleashing violence on its citizens, and blaming foreign scapegoats. The protests’ ...
It was part of the détente that culminated in the Helsinki Accords, the breakthrough agreement that finally, 30 years after the end of World War II, stabilized relations between the Western alliance ...
The Americanization of Greenland transcended brute imperial force in the Russian mold. Two years earlier, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s showy military ouster of Venezuela’s leader, ...
It has been almost a year since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, promising at his inauguration, “During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put ...
Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began ...
The pre-positioning approach of Littleton and Volt Typhoon is indicative of Beijing’s emerging interest in waging war against entire systems, attacking the connective tissue that allows an adversary ...
In its place, countries are fast adopting a values-neutral, transactional approach toward foreign policy. China was the progenitor of this approach to international relations: for over a decade, ...
The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...
The question is whether the shifts will remain relatively modest, or if Maduro’s extraction presages bigger changes within both Venezuela and the region. There is a wide variety of possibilities.
Securing the world’s subsea arteries demands a comprehensive global architecture that links national and regional efforts with international ones and modernizes the legal and institutional regime. The ...
The United States’ use of military force to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marks a turning point for Venezuela and for U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere. But it would be a mistake to ...
This essay emerged from the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance.