Trump vs. Harris: Whose Foreign Policy Will Win the 2024 Election?

The November presidential election is less than three months away and despite conventional wisdom, foreign policy and national security issues are playing a role in the campaign discourse, helping to define the campaigns and the candidates and reflecting Americans’ often polarized views on the major conflicts of the day. There are three major issues upon which the major candidates — Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump — can define their foreign policy, if they haven’t already: Ukraine, Gaza, and U.S. competition with China, including a potential conflict over Taiwan.

We’ve pulled together a roundtable of political and foreign policy experts on both sides of the political spectrum to have a candid discussion about how these issues are playing out in the campaigns and with voters, and what we might expect from either candidate if he or she were to win the presidency in November.

August 2024

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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:

George Beebe

George Beebe is Director of the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. 

Daniel Bessner

Daniel Bessner is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute and the Joff Hanauer Honors Associate Professor in Western Civilization in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of "Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual" (Cornell, 2018) 

Emily Jashinsky 

Emily Jashinsky is the co-host of the political events podcast Counterpoints and UnHerd's Washington D.C. Correspondent. She previously served as the Culture Editor at The Federalist and a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. She also serves as director of the National Journalism Center, a program of the Young America's Foundation.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (Moderator)

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a Senior Advisor for the Quincy Institute and Editorial Director at Responsible Statecraft. Previously she served as Executive Editor at The American Conservative magazine, where she has been a contributing editor since 2007. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter in the Washington bureau of Fox News.

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