Heine on Latin America’s Response to Shifting U.S. Policy
In a recent interview on global reactions to U.S. foreign policy for The Heat, in part of CGTN America, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School, offered a stark assessment of Washington’s renewed invocation of the Monroe Doctrine. Heine argued that attempts to revive an 1823 framework for…
Garčević on What Kosovo Risks Without Proper Lobbying
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was featured in both an article titled Kosovo Has Not Had a Registered Lobbying Contract in the U.S. for Almost Two Years and the Albanian-language political analysis program, Exposé, titled Who speaks for Kosovo’s interests in America? for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Garčević Comments on the Current State of US Diplomacy and the Balkans
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was recently featured in “Waiting for American Ambassadors: Is the Balkans a Cause for Concern,” published by BBC News in Serbian on February 2. The article examines the challenges currently facing U.S. diplomacy, including the fact that in early 2026 there were around 80 ambassadorial vacancies awaiting…
Heine Quoted in Article on the US-China Power Struggle in Latin America
In a CNN article titled China has spent decades making inroads in Latin America. Will the ‘Donroe doctrine’ push it out? by Simone McCarthy, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School, was quoted on his thoughts on the reverberations of the United States’ intervention of Venezuela and the…
Wippl Pens Article ‘Intelligence and National Security’
Professor Joseph W. Wippl contributed an article titled Intelligence and National Security to the January 2026 issue of Baltic Rim Economies. In the piece, Wippl asserts that a clear understanding of each position in these fields are key to accomplishing their missions and minimizes negligent decision-making. Wippl begins with outlining how intelligence functions as a…
Heine on the Stability of Latin America’s Relationship to China for CNN
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed by CNN for a segment titled, How Trump’s Venezuela strike complicates China’s Latin America strategy that was published on January 23, 2026. Heine was asked to contextualize and comment on Latin America’s relationship to it’s largest…
Storella Comments on the Roots of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Professor of the practice of diplomacy Mark Storella told Portugal’s observatory newspaper, on January 23, that Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not organized around coherent strategy, but rather motivated by his personal impulses and desires. In the article entitled, The Obsession, the Bullying, and the Zigzags—Is there any Strategy in How Trump deals with Greenland?,…
Storella on Trump, Greenland, and Europe’s Push for Greater Security Independence
On January 20, 2026, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy, Mark Storella, told Irish TV viewers on RTE’s Prime Time news program that President Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland are not popular in the United States. Storella said that Trump had dismantled the normal policy process in the U.S. leaving the U.S. with a broken…
Bringing You Back Home: Dave Diaz (MAIR ‘02) on the Education that Equipped him for a Career in National Security
Written by Charlotte Cheung (BA in International Relations and Economics, ‘27) In Bringing You Back Home, we talk about how Pardee has shaped our alumni’s paths in significant ways that would not have been possible without their time here. Dave Diaz (MAIR ‘02), a veteran of the Marine Corps, the Pentagon, and the State Department,…
Hare’s View on Enduring Chavismo Under Trump’s Venezuela Gamble
Master Lecturer Paul Webster Hare penned a new article for the The Conversation, titled Chavismo has adapted before – but can Venezuela’s leftist ideology become US friendly and survive?, covering how the Trump administration’s January 2026 operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from power marked a dramatic turning point in U.S.–Venezuela relations—but not the clean break…
Heine on How Trump’s Latin America Strategy Opens New Doors for China
In a recent Weekend Essay for Bloomberg titled Trump’s Hard Line in Latin America Leaves China Room to Maneuver, published on January 16, 2026, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, argues that the Trump administration’s hard-line approach toward Latin America is reshaping the region’s geopolitical landscape—while…
Heine Talks What’s Next for Venezuela Under Rodríguez’s Leadership
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, offered a cautious assessment of Venezuela’s uncertain political moment in a recent interview for CNN International. Commenting ahead of an address by acting president Delcy Rodríguez, Heine predicted she would emphasize continuity and stability, pointing to modest economic recovery, rising…
Heine Warns of a Dangerous Break with the Rules-Based Order on CBC
On January 6, 2026, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies spoke to Matt Galloway of CBC/Radio-Canada for the show The Current. In this discussion, Heine offered a stark assessment of the international order in the wake of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela. He argued that the…
Heine Talks Active Non-Alignment on The Fletcher Forum Podcast
In December 2025, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies was interviewed by the Fletcher Forum Podcast to discuss his piece titled, Which Way The World Order? A Rising South, A Fractured West, And The Path Ahead. The article sheds light on Heine’s research on “Active Non-Alignment”; which…
Heine Quoted on Venezuela’s Precedent and Reshaping Global Politics
In a POLITICO article titled After Venezuela operation, Trump says the whole hemisphere is in play, Jorge Heine, former Chilean ambassador and professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, was cited. The authors, Eli Stokols and Daniella Cheslow, covered how the Trump administration’s seizure of Venezuela’s president and its declaration that “the whole hemisphere…
Heine on the “Unpredictable” Future the U.S. Intervention of Venezuela Holds
In his analysis titled ‘Running Venezuela’? Hegemony is one thing, dominance is another published by Responsible Statecraft on Jan. 6, 2026, Ambassador Jorge Heine argues that the United States’ bombing of Caracas, the port of La Guaira, and surrounding regions—along with the forcible removal of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife—marks a historic escalation in U.S.–Latin…
Heine on U.S.’s Venezuelan Intervention and Where to go from here
Jorge Heine was interviewed by CGTN Europe to unpack the recent United States military action on Venezuela, the removal of President Maduro, and respond to President Trump’s proclamation that the US will run Venezuela. Heine shared his skepticism for a straight-forward exchange of power. While the US was successful in removing President Maduro as the…
Heine’s Take on the “Donroe Doctrine”
Ishaan Tharoor’s column for the Washington Post titled The year of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’, published December 31, 2026, quoted Ambassador Jorge Heine reflecting on the Monroe Doctrine’s resurgence in contemporary United States’ relations to Latin America. The article argues that President Trump’s second-term Latin America policy, the so-called “Donroe Doctrine”, revives the language of the…
Heine on the Power of Latin America Amid US-Venezuela Tensions for CGTN
In a panel discussion for DIALOGUE–CGTN shared on December 23, 2025, Ambassador Jorge Heine investigated the Trump administration’s reasons behind heightening tensions with Venezuela and its path towards a serious military confrontation. Heine was joined by Professor Jiang Shixue, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Shanghai University; Ben Norton, Editor-in-Chief of the…
Hare Quoted on Trump’s Venezuela Strategy
In an article written by Matthew Ward Agius for Deutsche Welle titled What is behind Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s Maduro?, published on January 3, 2026, Professor Paul Webster Hare, master lecturer at the Pardee School and former British ambassador to Cuba, discussed the Trump administration’s escalating military pressure on Venezuela. While recent actions signal that…