Unpacking the Trump Agenda: A Conversation with Walter Mead

The Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard are pleased to invite the Bard community to our upcoming speaker event with Walter Russell Mead for a discussion of the Trump Doctrine, the future of American power, and the unraveling of the liberal international order.

Since January 20, the Trump administration has stunned the world with its flood the zone strategy: upending institutional norms, ruthlessly exercising power at home by cracking down on elite law firms and universities, dismantling federal bureaucracies, moving aggressively to secure the border, and fundamentally altering US foreign policy in multiple pivotal regions around the world. Just last week, this unconventional approach to world politics took another turn as President Trump imposed a dizzying array of new tariffs on the global trade system—a system the United States has built and protected since its inception after the end of World War II.

Walter Russell Mead is the senior scholar, Center for Civic Engagement and Hannah Arendt Center, and the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft with the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and the “Global View” columnist at the Wall Street Journal.

Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard

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For more information, call 845-758-7378, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 104

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