We have witnessed a new revolution.” The 1898 era is back. The superficial parallels are many. U.S. President Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for tariffs and protectionism, his interest in reclaiming the ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.