Much has been said about Trump's reverence for William McKinley. Now he is invoking the foreign policy of another predecessor ...

For the uninitiated, the Monroe Doctrine is neither treaty nor law. It began life as a simple statement, issued by President ...

The heart of the report is a pledge to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence.” In the past, militarists invoked the Monroe Doctrine largely out of habit, a ...

Breaking transatlantic ties and punishing and rewarding Latin American nations, Donald Trump makes a tectonic shift in ...

The favourite in Chile's election on Sunday is the right-wing José Antonio Kast. A Kast victory would be the latest rightward political shift in South America, as U.S. President Donald Trump and the ...

The 2025 US National Security Strategy marks the passage from the era of liberalism in American politics to one of international realism.

The United States has deep ties to its southern neighbors. The Trump administration's efforts to wield its economic and military might are part of a long history of US entanglement and intervention in ...

Two centuries ago, US President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European powers in what would became known in history books as the “Monroe Doctrine”. The proclamation ...

The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, ...

Shifting its focus away from global leadership, the United States is now claiming special rights in neighboring regions Read ...

Steven Price grew up in Panama and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1981. For his first base, he “signed up to go back home,” volunteering for duty at the Panama Canal Zone, where more than 10,000 ...

First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, began excavating a channel through Central America in 1881. Drawing huge ...