U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaking about negotiations to end the warin Ukraine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2025. SAUL LOEB / REUTERS.… Will ...

While the concept lost some of its relevance at the end of the Cold War, it is back in the spotlight with the return of ...

UNDER President Donald Trump, the US is defecting from its decades-long position as an “open door” in preference for a global order that embraces spheres of influence ... up of China by European ...

He is a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Political Studies Association ... view of the world in which great powers carve out spheres of influence in which they do not interfere.

emphasizes political scientist Ulrich M. Schmid in Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung: King Donald and Tsar Vladimir are enjoying a precarious romance. Both think in terms of spheres of influence. For ...

offers a compelling framework for a stable multipolar world that amplifies the voices of smaller and developing nations while resisting the re-establishment of exploitative spheres of influence.

And will Trump’s love for authoritarian strong men embolden China’s Xi Jinping to flex ... dominate and carve up the world into spheres of influence and economic dependencies.

(Illustration by Thomas Fluharty) Over time, the postwar Western power centers produced a fundamental transformation in outlook and civic influence ... carving China into competing spheres ...

In Mr. Trump’s view, European officials fear, the United States, Russia and China will instead look after their own spheres of influence ... at the Conservative Political Action Conference ...