Matthew Duss is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Matthew Duss was a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft program at the Carnegie Endowment.
From 2017–2022, Matthew served as foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). He also served as foreign policy director for the Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. From 2014–2016, he served as president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. From 2008–2014, he was a policy analyst and national security editor at the Center for American Progress, where he directed the Center’s Middle East Progress program. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the Nation, the American Prospect, and many other publications.
The outcome of the U.S. presidential elections will likely introduce a new chapter in American foreign policy, with prospective shifts that will shape the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape.
Another escalation between Hamas and Israel has left a staggering number of Israelis and Palestinians dead. Conditions deteriorate, violence escalates in the occupied West Bank, and protests erupt across the Middle East and the world. Join us online to discuss the unfolding situation.
The Biden administration indulges the Israeli President’s nostalgia act even as the promise of a true democracy slips away in Israel/Palestine.
For a supposed diplomat, Mike Pompeo really seems to enjoy settling scores.
It has taken a back seat to great-power competition. And this week at the White House, guess who’s coming to dinner?
It may not be up there with East Timor, but the practice of turning vast global contacts into wealth has been horrible for American democracy.
For communities around the world, especially in the global south, it’s been clear for decades that the neoliberal “Washington Consensus,” which emerged in the 1980s and focused on deregulation, privatization, austerity, and trade liberalization, was a predatory and destructive model.
Donald Trump was right about Americans’ disenchantment with the existing foreign-policy establishment. The United States desperately needs a renewed global approach that is both more responsive to the American people’s needs and does not simply export violence and poverty onto the rest of the world.
Biden has signaled he would sign the repeal of the Iraq AUMFs. The war on terror should be next.
Join us for a discussion of the Iraq War’s impact on our debates about U.S. foreign policy today and into the future.
