Study Group with Carol Giacomo

Join us on Thursday, November 19 at 4:30pm ET for a study group with IOP Fellow Carol Giacomo. Carol Giacomo was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 2007-2020 writing opinion pieces about all major national security issues including nuclear weapons, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

SPECIAL GUEST: Robert Kagan is the Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is the author of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.

OVERVIEW: President Trump did not precipitate the tumultuous changes that have unsettled and complicated the international scene since 2016. But he has exacerbated them by abdicating America’s decades-long role as world leader, upending alliances, weakening international organizations, shredding treaties and making common cause with the rising tide of strongmen like Hungary's Viktor Orban.  President-elect Joe Biden would certainly try to repair the Trans-Atlantic alliance, revive discarded treaties, reassert American leadership, and strengthen diplomatic processes. But some experts are calling for a more sweeping rethink of American foreign and defense policy. What should be the course ahead?

• RSVP by 12:00pm ET on Thursday, 11/19
• AUDIENCE: This conversation is open to individuals with a valid Harvard email address.
• ZOOM: An e-mail confirmation with Zoom participant information will be sent to your email on the day of the event. 
• OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, this event is off-the-record.