U.S. Foreign Policy in the Next U.S. Administration

Tuesday, November 5 is Election Day in the United States. Millions of people will head to the polls to cast their ballot for the next president of the United States, in addition to the millions who have voted early or by mail. Though the final outcome of the election may not be known on or immediately after Election Day as votes are being tallied, there will be a new U.S. president known in the coming days, and with that person’s election win will come a new direction for U.S. foreign policy. The candidates have radically different priorities and plans for interacting with the rest of the world, including China, Europe, the Middle East and Russia. Join Marie Harf and Michael C. Horowitz as they discuss the U.S. president-elect’s foreign policy challenges, opportunities, priorities, and what we might expect to see in the coming four years.

Marie Harf comes to Penn with two decades of varied experience in the U.S. federal government, higher education, media, and politics. Previously she worked as senior advisor for strategic communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and deputy spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, as the foreign policy director on Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, and as a Middle East analyst and spokesperson at the Central Intelligence Agency. She has also held senior roles at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and for Congressman Seth Moulton's political organization. Since 2017, Harf has been an on-air commentator for Fox News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Indiana University with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies, and a master's degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.

Michael C. Horowitz is director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics and the co-author of Why Leaders Fight. He won the Karl Deutsch Award given by the International Studies Association for early career contributions to the fields of international relations and peace research. He has published in a wide array of peer-reviewed journals and popular outlets. His research interests include the intersection of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics with global politics, military innovation, the role of leaders in international politics, and geopolitical forecasting methodology. Professor Horowitz previously worked for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Department of Defense. He is a senior fellow for defense technology and innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Horowitz received his PhD in government from Harvard University and his BA in political science from Emory University.

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