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Aug 2024
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What We’re Learning About Kamala Harris’...

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The Democratic National Convention concluded Thursday night with Vice President Kamala Harris accepting the party’s nomination. What did we learn about a potential Harris foreign policy?

Matt Duss, former foreign-policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, join FP Live to unpack this week’s DNC.

Suggested reading (FP links are paywall free):

Michael Hirsh: Preparing for a Less Arrogant America

Michael Hirsh: Kamala Harris’s 21st-Century Foreign Policy 

Matthew Duss: Harris Candidacy Gives Democrats a Change to Pivot on Gaza

Matthew Duss: The Democrats’ Pro-Worker Agenda Can Go Global

Financial Times: What Might a Harris Foreign Policy Look Like?

Bhaskar Chakravorti: If Kamala Harris Was the Czar of Anything, It Would Be AI

Abdelhalim Abdelrahman: Democrats’ Gaza Policy Is Repelling Arab American Voters

FP Staff: The Kamala Harris Doctrine

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