Politics vs. International Relations
"Politics vs. International Relations: Stability and Change in U.S. Foreign Policy"
Tuesday, Sept. 24 | 4 - 5:30 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium (UH 1000)
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Foreign policy experts, both practitioners and academics, typically believe that “politics end at the water’s edge.” While this idealized image of bipartisan agreement on national security affairs was always overstated, today we see starkly different foreign policy visions emerging, even among politicians within the same political parties. As a result, many at home and abroad fear that the deep and cross-cutting divisions in U.S. domestic politics and society could make America’s role in international relations more unpredictable and could lead to more chaos – or at least less order – in the international system. Please join us for a nuanced conversation with a national security expert who has 20 years’ experience working on U.S. foreign policy in Europe and in the UN system. We will discuss how U.S. foreign policy has changed and stayed the same over time and how that affects U.S. partnerships, alliances, and the way diplomats pursue national security priorities.
Please note that this event is not open to the media and will follow Chatham House rules: Specifically, “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”
Robin S. Brooks, Ph.D., is a State Department Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and former Special Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris for Europe, Eurasia, Multilateral Affairs, and Democracy.
She was previously the Director for Central Europe and the Balkans at the National Security Council. Her prior assignments as a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department have included Director of the Office for Multilateral Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassies in Serbia and Bulgaria, Chief of Staff to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and positions at the U.S. Embassies in Russia, Turkey, and the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Dr. Brooks holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and as the State Department’s Davis Fellow has served as adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
