At the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in the Revolutionary War, a gunboat called the Philadelphia for the ...

While previous instances of American gunboat diplomacy often paid lip service to human rights or democracy, Donald Trump ...

After the United States government celebrated the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, President Donald Trump issued ...

The most valuable deals at the World Economic Forum this week may be diplomatic as Donald Trump and most of the leaders of ...

For mUCH of modern history, multinational enterprises have acted hand in glove with the state. Britain and the Netherlands were bankrolled by their East India companies, and provided military and ...

THE Islamic Republic of Iran is bracing for a possible American military intervention amid widespread mass protests that have paralysed the country. The regime faces its gravest internal and external ...

The theatres of state-sponsored piracy are expanding, from the traditional Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Somali Basin to the Black Sea and now the Atlantic. The recent US seizure of Russian-flagged oil ...

Like his domestic policy that seeks to roll back the civil rights revolution and other 21st-century advances, President Donald Trump’s imperialist foreign policy is invoking the kind of unilateral ...

The U.S. campaign in Venezuela has drawn from a centuries-old playbook employing naval force — but added some new elements, too. By Ali Watkins The U.S. operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro attend a signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2025. - Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty ...

In May of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin played host to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in the Grand Kremlin Palace, just ahead of major celebrations in Moscow to mark the 80th ...