#GAReads | Now Is Not the Time for Diversity Backsliding

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“Now Is Not the Time for Diversity Backsliding”:

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, US policy faced a problem. The Trump Administration had injected an enormous amount of ferment and polarization into US foreign policy conversations. But whether they were trying to uphold or destroy them, all sides of the debate continue to rely on paradigms from the Cold War and 1990s neoliberal conceptions of international order. Too often security policy decisions, from trade agreements to counterterrorism strategy, are driven by outdated strategic frameworks, and critiques savage those frameworks while still proceeding from some of the same outdated assumptions about power, values and the international system. As a result, we have a debate that often fails to connect with what people in the US and abroad value in their lives and communities.

COVID-19 has exposed the flaws in these old security paradigms, demonstrating that they rely on outdated assumptions about the world.

Read Heather Hurlburt and Dr. Alexandra Stark’s full article at Inkstick here…