Foreign Policy in the New Administration: A Talk by Charles Kupchan

As a second Trump administration gets underway, Charles Kupchan discusses early indications of the direction of Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, which promises to upend the global status quo. Kupchan, a former member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, shares insight on topics such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, NATO and European security considerations and controversies, consequences of the Israel-Hamas war, the mounting conflicts with China on multiple fronts, and America’s position in the changing global order. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Georgetown University, he is the author of Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World and No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn.

This event is the annual Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture.

Presented with the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the European Union Studies Center.