Ten Minutes On... Venezuela and a World Without Rules

In this episode of Ten Minutes On, Guy Burton examines the US operation against Venezuela and what it reveals about a world in which rules increasingly no longer hold. Using the removal of Nicolás Maduro as a starting point, the episode explores historical precedents, global reactions, and the limits of international law when exercised against powerful states. It argues that rather than moving towards a new Cold War or a coherent replacement for the liberal international order, the global system may be settling into a condition of permanent fracture. The episode suggests that under Trump the international order is being dismantled from within—leaving disorder, rather than transition, as the defining feature of contemporary world politics.