The administration is asserting its security imperative in the Western Hemisphere but what happens when American interests collide with China's 'near abroad'? We asked 14 experts.

It also made clear that the United States will exert its influence in its own neighborhood, the Western Hemisphere. Recent U.S. action in Venezuela further illustrated that intention. Six Council of ...

OP-ED. While the theory of spheres of influence is highly popular, four factors counterbalance it, writes the international systems expert in an op-ed for Le Monde. Laïdi describes a hybrid world ...

The “spheres of influence” frame doesn’t fit. Trump isn’t carving up the world with rival powers, each staying in their lane. Washington just sent Taiwan its largest-ever arms package, and the ...

Antony Blinken has been warning that if major powers carve the globe into exclusive zones of control, the result will not be stability but a slide toward confrontation. His argument is that a world ...

The pattern is no longer subtle. Within weeks of returning to office, Donald Trump had revived territorial ambitions that would once have been dismissed as erratic provocations: renewed pressure over ...

Goleta City Councilman Kyle Richards speaks during a discussion Tuesday to pursue designating certain areas outside city boundaries to be under the city’s sphere of influence. Richards says the city ...