In 1823, America was a nation whose military was inferior to any of the major (or even minor) European powers and that ...

First articulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine was largely meant to stave off European colonial influence in the western ...

From the early 19th century on, the United States expanded by acquiring territory through purchase or force. By expressing ...

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In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

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, ...

It's best thought of as the ideological glue that holds NATO and EU together. Lose that bond, or replace it, and it’s hard to ...

OP-ED. Historian Florian Louis traces the origins and shifts of the Monroe Doctrine which, until the arrest of the Venezuelan ...

US President Donald Trump views allies as expendable and power as transactional. But the idea of “the West” was never just a ...

What happened in Venezuela this week will be debated for years, but its meaning was instantly understood across much of the Global South. The ...

For centuries, coffee has travelled across continents, sailed with traders, influenced revolutions, energised workers, ...