The so-called ‘Golden Circle’ was to be an empire of slave-owning states stretching from the Deep South of the US, across ...

In the late 1890s, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan made a compelling argument for the United States’ possession of Hawaii. Those interested in the annexation of Greenland might take note.

A year after Donald Trump revived Manifest Destiny, expansionist rhetoric has returned to US policy debates, placing ...

In a move that has left European leaders reeling, President Trump has shared a provocative image that reimagines North ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the ...

Land is the great prize of our time. Even as our economy becomes dematerialised, and our lives virtual, our obsessions just ...

The White House is reviving a game of territorial expansion that treats foreign lands as real estate and their people as ...

The account, maintained by a group of diplomats, ex-journalists and factcheckers, has been active as global leaders met at ...

Britain has approved China's plan to build its largest embassy in Europe. The new embassy will be located in London. This ...

In 2026, people are looking for deeper, more meaningful travel experiences. Recent research found that 53% of travellers are ...

With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a ...