The “spheres of influence” frame doesn’t fit. Trump isn’t carving up the world with rival powers, each staying in their lane.

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 ...

"Attempting to reorganize the world around spheres of influence is a recipe for disaster. Trump’s Venezuela intervention has ...

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

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

The US raid on Venezuela has exposed the limits of ties between Moscow and Caracas – while pointing the way for potential ...

Until quite recently, the concept of spheres of influence seemed to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Up to the end of the Cold War, of course, such zones had been an unexceptional ...

As great powers retreat from multilateralism and redraw their spheres of influence, the United Nations is no longer shaping ...