Join us Tuesday December 3rd, 5:30 pm at Hampshire College's Franklin Patterson East Lecture Hall for a discussion with Professor Michael Klare and Omar Dahi on the foreign policy implications of the US elections. The event will kick off with a special screening of a 10-minute tutorial video that  explores the scale, influence, and objectives of the U.S. National Security State, often referred to as the U.S. War Machine. What is the U.S. National Security State’s size and reach? What are its main components? What are the overarching principles it seeks to achieve?

The video, produced by the Security in Context research network was written and narrated by Professor Michael Klare and animated by Hampshire alumni Owen Neuburger.

Following the screening, Professor Klare and Dahi will talk briefly about the making of the video and then move to an open discussion and q&a of what the US and the world can expect from Trump's foreign policy in the coming years.

Michael Klare

Michael Klare is Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association at Hampshire College. With a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute, Klare has written extensively on U.S. military policy, international peace, security affairs, and resource politics. Author of fifteen books, including Resource Wars (2001) and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (2019), Klare’s work has appeared in Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and Scientific American, among many others.

Omar S. Dahi

Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. Dahi also serves as associate editor of Review of Social Economy, a co-editor at the e-zine Jadaliyya, and is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). He has been a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program.