The administration is asserting its security imperative in the Western Hemisphere but what happens when American interests ...
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Trump's sphere of influence quest is sloppy, self-sabotage

Great powers have historically sought regional sway but the president's Venezuela and Greenland gambits risk anything but ...
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 ...
In response to the 2025 US National Security Strategy, Japan needs to develop its own defence capabilities and expand access to US forces in order to make the US-Japan alliance [...] ...
It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted. In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the Balkan ...
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 ...