The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

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 ...

With US alliances weakening and global security at risk, Europe and Asia must rethink defense, balancing military expansion ...

This is not just eccentric provocation by MAGA attention-seekers; it is a window into a serious, philosophical concordance ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's "common sense" aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European powers which ... on what he considers ...

Journalists in the 1980s and 1990s worried about the death of dollar dominance. Paul Blustein explains why the yen failed to ...

Where and when do we defend democracy? It’s a question President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston ...

They were called the spheres of influence ... Now the U.S.-NATO-Japan sphere has expanded to include the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the formerly neutral Sweden ...

China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

In reality, however, the 1945 Yalta Conference implicitly accepted spheres of influence ... of Europe. This was the price for Stalin’s agreement to fight with the Allies against Japan.