Andrew Latham

Andrew Latham is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. Andrew is now a Contributing Editor to 19FortyFive, where he writes a daily column. You can follow him on X: @aakatham.

October 1, 2026

News/Sri Lanka

Top American General Visiting Colombo Pays Tribute to WWII War Dead

Lieutenant General Joel Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of US Army Pacific, joined Sri Lankan defence and security representatives and diplomats from five countries at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Jawatta, Colombo,

Columns/Geopolitics

Venezuela’s Uneasy Survival

Venezuela’s post-Maduro reality is defined by a stark imbalance of power. The Rodríguez government has avoided direct confrontation with Washington while negotiating access to its vast oil resources and seeking to stabilise an economy battered by sanctions and years of

October 1, 2026

US Says Sri Lanka’s Investment Climate Remains Hostile to Foreign Capital

Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 5 per cent in 2025 as the country continued its recovery from the 2022 economic crisis, but its investment

Can Prison Monitoring Change Prisons?

Editor's Choice/Human Rights

A critical examination of the growing expectations placed on prison monitors—and the dangerous gap between identifying abuse and changing the system that produces it.

The Iran War Is Now All About Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz

April 2, 2026

Iran/United States/World

Clausewitz understood that wars have a way of outgrowing the aims that set them in motion. Thirty-one days into Operation Epic Fury, his lesson is being relearned — even if Washington can’t

Kashmir’s Forever War

May 21, 2025

Columns/Geopolitics

This Ceasefire Will Not Hold – Because India and Pakistan Were Never Meant to Coexist: On May 16, 2025, India and Pakistan agreed – yet again – to a ceasefire along the Line of Control