The author is a chair professor of North Korean studies at Kyungnam University and former ambassador to the United States. I began my career as a diplomat in the 1970s, and during half a century in ...

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The concept of a redux of the 1945 Yalta Conference has resurfaced in current global discourse. In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s dramatic reversal of U.S. policy on the war in Ukraine and ...

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Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether a return to great power spheres of influence is practical in the twenty ...

Andrew Latham does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Long before President Trump reclaimed the White House, the post-World War II global order was fraying. Multilateral institutions were losing relevance, globalization was under siege and great-power ...

Since US President Donald Trump took office this year, one theme has come up time and again: his rule is a threat to the US-led international order. As the US political scientist John Mearsheimer ...

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Long before President Trump reclaimed the White House, the post-World War II global order was fraying. Multilateral institutions were losing relevance, globalization was under siege and great-power ...

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...