Can America Still Have a Successful Foreign Policy?

Since its victory in the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy has been largely a failure. Neither Republicans nor Democrats seem able to manage world affairs as successfully as they once did.

Donald Trump took office pledging to fix the problem and "make America great again," but his actions as president have done nothing to make Americans or the world either safer or more prosperous. Professor Stephen M. Waltdiscussed what a more realistic and successful foreign policy could look like, and what needs to change in order to implement it.

Stephen M. Walt (@stephenWalt) is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.

This event was held on 21 October 2019 and was part of the US Centre's .

Can America Still Have a Successful Foreign Policy?

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