The Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC) is sometimes seen as a group of wealthy oil states capable of controlling world petroleum supplies and prices for its own benefit.

New Perspectives in Foreign Policy is published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to provide a forum for young professionals to write on issues of importance in foreign policy. Though New Perspectives seeks to bring new voices into the dialogue, it...

On March 1, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced the latest in a series of claims accusing the United States of meddling in Venezuela’s affairs: an unspecified number of U.S. citizens, among them an American pilot, arrested in Táchira were,...

On Sunday, January 18, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in his Buenos Aires apartment. His death came just hours before he was scheduled to deliver testimony before a congressional commission on new evidence he allegedly uncovered linking top...

In many ways, President Obama’s three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica last week was an effort to redefine the U.S. relationship with the region, particularly with the countries that the United States has the closest ties.

In the run-up to the trip,...

Though we have seen the margin narrow during the final days of Sunday’s special presidential election in Venezuela, most reports conclude that the likely victor will be Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). For Venezuela, a Maduro...