‘Why Trump’s action in Venezuela is no surprise’: Expert comment from Dr Stephen Tuffnell

Should we be surprised by the United States’ latest intervention in Venezuela, or does it fit into a longer history of US foreign policy? What does US President Donald Trump mean when he invokes ‘The “Donroe” Doctrine?’ What might happen next?

In an interview on Sky News Daily with Niall Paterson, Dr Stephen Tuffnell provides expert comment explaining the United States’ history of interventionist foreign policy and which countries to watch in the coming days.

You can listen to the full podcast episode here or listen below. 

Dr Stephen Tuffnell is Fellow and Tutor in Modern US History at St Peter’s College and Associate Professor of Modern US History at the University of Oxford. Dr Tuffnell’s research focuses on the United States’ global connections in the nineteenth century, exploring the histories of nations and empires around the globe and the development of the modern world. He is the author of Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America (University of California Press, 2020), co-editor (with Benjamin Mountford) of A Global History of Gold Rushes, (University of California Press, 2018), and is currently writing Imperial Odyssey: The USS Ticonderoga and the Search for U.S. Empire. You can learn more about his work here.