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

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

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

President Trump’s recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement where the United States, China and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence. By Edward Wong Edward Wong ...

Trump’s new foreign policy leans toward recognizing spheres of influence, departing from past interventionism and potentially avoiding future great power conflicts, especially with China, if handled ...

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

The president is claiming a special U.S. sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Even before it deployed a giant aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, ...

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 ...