Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

"I run the country and the world," the president recently said in an interview reflecting on his first 100 days back in ...

The world’s poorest nations are once again discovering what it means to be peripheral to power. In the latest chapter of 21st ...

Another world war left Britain with another mountain ... The British case illustrates that defying Ferguson’s Law need not ...

Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an ...

The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.

Shrewd leaders of great powers do best by making good use of an ... In their dysfunctional world, everyone has a problem. Peasants are reluctant to till the soil because anything they produce ...

Tim Bouverie's 'old-fashioned diplomatic history' explores the often fraught relationship between world powers ...

The day of fighting, itself the outcome of a gathering revolutionary crisis, presaged the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power ...

The study of great powers and great power rivalry has recently gained increased prominence particularly because the world today seems to be moving away from being dominated by a single power or ...

A world shaped not just by the United States, China or a handful of great powers but by a global multiplex of countries would not be a paradise. But then, nor has been this one. A fairer world is ...