"How 'America First' Changed US Foreign Policy"

 The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents “How ‘America First’ Changed US Foreign Policy” with Elizabeth Shackelford.

Since the start of his second administration, President Donald Trump has pursued an aggressive foreign policy agenda, imposing wide-ranging tariffs on adversaries and allies alike, dramatically increasing the threat and use of military force, and exhibiting a preference for acting impulsively and alone rather than through existing multilateral systems and time-tested partnerships. Do these actions simply reflect the style of a single leader or a lasting shift in America’s role in the world? Is President Trump changing the world order or responding to changes that are already underway? How is that approach affecting our ability to achieve our national security goals? Join us for a discussion on America’s changing foreign policy and what it means for us at home and in the world. 

Elizabeth Shackelford is a Distinguished Fellow in International Affairs at Dartmouth College. She served as a career diplomat in the U.S. State Department, with postings in Warsaw, Poland, South Sudan, Somalia, and Washington, D.C. Her outstanding work in South Sudan during the civil war earned her the prestigious Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence.

She gained international recognition for her principled resignation in protest of the State Department policies of the Trump administration, which sparked important discussions about diplomacy and governance. That led to her book, The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age, which chronicles the challenges facing US foreign policy in the modern world.

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