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 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 ...

Early in the morning of January 3, U.S. forces struck Caracas, seized Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, and flew them out of the country. The extraction operation caps off months of ...

After nearly four years of fighting, few aspects of Russia’s war in Ukraine have gained as much attention among Western militaries as the rapid expansion of drone warfare. Since 2023, both sides have ...

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 ...

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord and the World Health ...

This essay emerged from the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance.

MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.

The first came during President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972, when the United States abandoned its policy of containment and instead sought rapprochement with Beijing. This was an effort to ...

Russia’s “foreign agent” law, established in 2012 to identify individuals and organizations that received international funding, has become a tool to criminally prosecute and ban from public life ...

Today, President Donald Trump uses a phone to access deepfakes; he sometimes reposts them on social media, as do many of his close advisers. As the lines become blurred between real and fake ...

A basic premise unites most foreign policy thinking: power begets security. Because no global police force can respond in times of trouble, states must accumulate power to ensure their safety. They ...