It has been almost a year since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, promising at his inauguration, “During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put ...

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, ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

The question is whether the shifts will remain relatively modest, or if Maduro’s extraction presages bigger changes within both Venezuela and the region. There is a wide variety of possibilities.

On January 3, U.S. forces did something many observers thought impossible: they quickly captured and arrested Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s wily, seemingly coup-proof autocrat. For years, Maduro had ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...

The United States’ use of military force to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marks a turning point for Venezuela and for U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere. But it would be a mistake to ...

Early in the morning of January 3, U.S. forces struck Caracas, seized Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, and flew them out of the country. The extraction operation caps off months of ...

ELIZABETH ECONOMY is Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she served as a senior adviser on China policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before ...