Foreign policy lacks the diverse, distributed national base of interested stakeholders that inform areas of domestic policy, like health and education policy. Some argue this has proven to be a helpful check on populism; others that it leaves the field open to capture by parochial and corporate interests. What is clear, however, is that this has led to a very constrained debate about policy preferences, in which few Americans and fewer national civil society organizations participate. The somewhat artificial divide between foreign policy and domestic policy likely exacerbates this challenge.
This discussion, hosted by Foreign Policy for America, Colombe Foundation, and Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS), will feature:
Shailly Gupta Barnes, Policy Director of the Kairos Center and the Poor People's Campaign
Joi Olivia Chaney, Executive Director of the Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, National Urban League
Amara Enyia, Policy and Research Coordinator, Movement for Black Lives
Rev. Stephen Green, Chair, Faith for Black Lives
Maria J. Stephan, Senior Advisor, Horizons Project; Author, “How Domestic Civic Movements Could Reshape US Foreign Policy” (Moderator)