Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford is the Magro Family Distinguished Visitor in International Affairs at Dartmouth College. She previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and was a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. She is the author of "The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age," winner of the Douglas Dillon Book Award. She has appeared alongside Jon Stewart, Christiane Amanpour, and numerous others.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Chained to Israel, the US struggles to secure vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea

January 12, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

From our nation's earliest days, making the world safe for American commerce has been the foundation of our foreign policy. The first Barbary War at the start of the 19th...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: For a better foreign policy in 2024, let’s be more like Taylor Swift

December 31, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

"My team is losing, battered and bruising./ I see the high-fives between the bad guys." Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince" song is a critique of America's domestic...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: COP28’s climate success isn’t nearly enough

December 28, 2023 at 3:24 p.m.

As the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, known by its acronym COP28, wrapped up Wednesday, diplomats and activists rejoiced. In a historic first, nearly 200 countries signed an...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Ukrainians won’t submit to Russian rule. The horrors of the Holodomor help explain why.

December 1, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

The last Saturday in November this year marked Holodomor Memorial Day, the 90th anniversary of the Great Famine when Soviet leader Josef Stalin's autocratic regime ruthlessly starved 4 million Ukrainians...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The US should use its leverage with Israel to help minimize civilian harm in the war

November 17, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

We cannot ignore the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza. The victims are not abstractions, nor are they the inevitable collateral damage of a just war. They are the result...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: What Americans think about the US role in the world and why it matters

November 3, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

For nearly 50 years, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs has been tracking American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy through its annual survey. It began at the behest of...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The fate of the Palestinian people will affect Israel’s future security

October 19, 2023 at 8:20 p.m.

Hamas' attacks on innocent civilians in Israel on Oct. 7 were heinous, cruel and unforgivable. No understanding or empathy is owed to its militants. But the Palestinian people, half of...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: America’s political dysfunction is harming our reputation and national security

October 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

America's national security depends heavily on the strength and effectiveness of our foreign policy and defense. Both are suffering self-inflicted wounds caused by our dysfunctional politics. As our political representatives...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: BRICS has invited 6 countries to join. What does this mean for the US and its allies?

September 8, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

BRICS held its annual leaders summit last month, and it was the most newsworthy event in the bloc's 14 years. What began as an acronym coined two decades ago by...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Populist candidate Javier Milei offers easy answers to Argentina’s hard problems

August 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

Argentina has been pummeled by one economic crisis after another for a generation. It has the third-highest inflation rate in the world and a bad habit of defaulting on debt,...

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