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Predicting Harris’s Foreign Policy | Michael Brenes | TMR
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36:19Now PlayingLive-streamed on August 28, 2024
Michael Brenes, historian at Yale, author of the Warfare and Welfare newsletter on SubStack, author of the upcoming book The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace And Weakens Democracy, co-authored with Van Jackson, to discuss his recent piece in the Boston Review entitled “The Harris Doctrine.”
Emma is then joined by Michael Brenes, who jumps right into the central parallels in his comparison between the infamous Henry Kissinger and Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, touching on their expansive roles in administrations pushing foreign policy projects to maintain and strengthen American primacy with little-to-no moral limit, and walking through the particular role Sullivan has played in advancing Joe Biden’s hyper-Zionist agenda despite overwhelming public disapproval. Shifting focus, Brenes then looks to Harris’ recently named National Security Advisory, Philip Gordon, unpacking his record as Middle East coordinator in Obama’s second administration, including his objections to US interventionism and regime change, stance on Israeli apartheid and Palestinian self-determination, and role in advancing the Iran deal, despite Israel’s objections. After expanding on some more problematic (if predictable) elements of Gordon’s background, Michael parses through the lines between Harris’ critique of Biden’s approach to Israel’s genocide and real signs of a differing agenda, and why Biden’s failures offer important lessons in the contradictions of US primacy and imperialism.
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