The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global human rights accountability.
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Expanding our understanding of how American society, culture and politics works helps us anticipate instability.
The so-called ‘Golden Circle’ was to be an empire of slave-owning states stretching from the Deep South of the US, across Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
Proposed seabed mining for battery minerals could collide with tuna fisheries, fragile ecosystems and Pacific sovereignty.
The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal big changes for farmers.
As Trump threatens to take Greenland, the island’s Indigenous people say Denmark is making decisions about their future without them.
America’s new and aggressive geopoitical stance is becoming more clear – and Nato is worried.
Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and military might.
It’s a blatant breach of international law which which will encourage Russia and China to follow suit.
The US intervention in Venezuela does not represent a break from past practice.
The US has captured the Venezuelan president, but whether this will lead to wholesale regime change remains unclear.
The new US National Security Strategy marks a historic break – and a problem for the NZ government’s policy of closer strategic alignment with Washington.
And what does America’s new national security strategy mean for Europe?
America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.
The US and its allies have long used violence and ‘targeted killings’ to further their foreign policy aims.
Combining diplomacy with deals has long been a feature of US foreign policy, but Donald Trump seems to have taken that to a new level.
The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.
The Trump administration is highly critical of Europe in its national security strategy, while barely mentioning the threats posed by rival great powers.
Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
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