How Democrats Can Reimagine Foreign Policy

Matt Duss on AOC in Munich and the future of progressive foreign policy

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave her first major foreign policy remarks at this year’s Munich Security Conference to lay out her vision of progressive foreign policy. Many are speculating that she is preparing for a presidential run in 2028. She has called for a reckoning with the United States’ history of intervention and repression abroad and attempted to offer an alternative to Trump’s “might makes right” approach.

In this episode, the Institute for Global Affairs’ Jonathan Guyer is joined by Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss foreign policy on the left. Matt gives Jonathan his perspective on AOC in Munich, where the Democrats went wrong on foreign policy, and how they ought to respond to the Iran war.

Matt Duss is executive vice president of the Center for International Policy. He was previously a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2017 to 2022, he was a foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), also serving as foreign policy director for the 2020 Sanders presidential campaign. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The American Prospect, and Foreign Policy.

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And for an exploration of MAGA foreign policy, check out our recent conversation with Curt Mills of The American Conservative.

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