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.

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

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

In response to the 2025 US National Security Strategy, Japan needs to develop its own defence capabilities and expand access ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...