In this conversation, Amos Hochstein discusses the complexities of U.S. foreign policy, particularly in relation to Venezuela and Iran, and its implications for global power dynamics. 

“This isn’t the 1970s anymore,” Jason Bordoff, the director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told me. “If the U.S. wants more oil, there is a whole menu of potential places where it can invest, starting right here at home.”

Timothy Frye MIA '92 recalls his participation in U.S. soft power projects and considers the consequences of Trump’s America First policy.

SIPA's MIA director will lead initiatives exploring AI's role in international affairs education

Over half of India’s population relies on agriculture for livelihood. Growing up in India, Stuti Banga MPA-DP '26 wanted to be part of the work shaping her country.

“I don’t think the adding of oil from Venezuela is a game-changer for the U.S.,” said Bordoff, who worked as the senior director for energy and climate change on the National Security Council during the Obama administration. “But it could be a game-changer for Venezuelans.”

Faculty from SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), and Institute of Latin American Studies weigh in on the US’s removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Luisa Palacios, managing director of energy transition finance at the Center on Global Energy Policy and the former chairwoman of the Citgo Petroleum Corporation, joined a a panel of experts to make sense of the new world order ushered in by President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine.”

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Jason Bordoff of Columbia University discusses the aims by President Trump to rehabilitate the infrastructure and oil production in Venezuela. He also discusses the administrations’ aims behind its’ operations in Venezuela, and its’ implications for China, which is also a big importer of Venezuelan oil.