The State Department was broken before Donald Trump
Addressing only the offenses of the Trump administration will not help us build back a better foreign policy than we had before.
Elizabeth Shackelford was a U.S. diplomat until December 2017 when she resigned in protest of the administration. She served in Somalia, South Sudan, Poland, and Washington, DC. Elizabeth is a fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age,” to be published in May 2020.
Addressing only the offenses of the Trump administration will not help us build back a better foreign policy than we had before.
The U.S.’s military-first approach to counterterrorism in Africa has failed.
In the best of times, dissenting against policies or practices in a federal agency is an uphill battle. In the emerging reality, dissenters will see only defeat and danger ahead.
Pulling funding for the World Health Organization follows Trump’s pattern of slowly dismantling multilateralism, which appears to be his ultimate goal.