The liberal dilemma on Venezuela
How the Monroe Doctrine came back to haunt the West
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Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is a professor of international relations and director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. He is a New Statesman contributing writer.
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