Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine

We will evaluate the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, which is a break from the post-1945 bipartisan foreign policy consensus and a formal codification of Trumpism’s imperialist, white nationalist, transactionalist agenda.

Joseph Gerson is president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, vice-president of the International Peace Bureau, and a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. He formerly headed the Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee.  He is author of Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion, and Moral Imagination (1995).

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement, which was signed by over 6,000 Black activists, artists, and scholars.

Sponsored by MAPA Education Fund, the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, and the IPS New Internationalism Project.

WEBINAR December 16th, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST