Claims that the country is sitting on a vast untapped reserve of critical minerals don’t stand up to scrutiny.

While the putsch was unsuccessful, it shows that no West African country—even one as stable as Benin—is immune to a military ...

Though Moscow may have lost a foothold in South America, the U.S. intervention in Venezuela is a net gain for Russia.

It’s only been three days since the ouster of Nicolas Maduro, but so far, the rump Maduro regime is behaving much like the ...

The aftermath of the U.S. operation in Venezuela demonstrates once again that the threat of the “Axis of Authoritarianism” is ...

Trump has inserted the United States into Venezuela’s troubled oil industry and the covert Russian shipping networks that ...

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The U.S. operation in Venezuela to seize Nicolas Maduro confirms that Latin America must take Trump’s military threats ...

James A. Kelly Fellow at Pacific Forum in Hawaii and an affiliated researcher at the East-West Center in Honolulu. She also ...

The recent erosion of global nuclear security dynamics makes clear the need to look beyond the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Our columnists weigh in on important trends that will drive events 2026 in the Western Hemisphere, China, Europe and beyond.