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US Foreign Policy Challenges and the Presidential Elections

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The panel of experts will discuss how global conflicts from the Middle East to Ukraine may affect the U.S. presidential elections, and what foreign policy challenges await the next president on their first day in office. Panel members include Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Emma Ashford, senior fellow at the Stimson Center.

The panel will be moderated by Osamah Khalil, professor of history and and chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program at Syracuse University.

Co-sponsored by: Political Science Department and the International Relations Undergraduate Program

PANELISTS

Emma Ashford
Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

Emma Ashford is a senior fellow with the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center in Washington,

D.C., where her work focuses on questions of international security, Russia, Middle East, and the future of U.S. foreign policy. She’s also an adjunct assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on energy and international security. Ashford writes a bi-weekly column, “It’s Debatable,” for Foreign Policy magazine.

Stephen Wertheim 
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Stephen Wertheim is a senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a historian of U.S. foreign policy and author of "Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy" (Harvard University Press, 2020). His commentary regularly appears in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times and elsewhere.

MODERATOR

Osamah Khalil
Professor of History and and Chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program, Syracuse University


Osamah Khalil is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and the modern Middle East. He has also been a frequent media commentator and contributor, including for the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Al Akhbar, and Al Jazeera. He teaches courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War, the history of international relations, America and the Middle East, and the Vietnam War and popular culture.


Region

Virtual

Open to

Public

Cost

Free

Organizers

MAX-Middle Eastern Studies Program, MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, MAX-Political Science

Contact

Ciara Hoyne
315.443.2935

cchoyne@syr.edu

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