January 29, 2026
Venezuela-focused panel discusses shift in American foreign policy
National security scholars at The Ohio State University are noticing a change in tone and rhetoric in the way the United States is conducting foreign policy following the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
“It’s a paradigm shift about even how the U.S. described this act,” said Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and professor of history, about the U.S. mission to arrest Maduro through “Operation Absolute Resolve.”