Join House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Quincy Institute executive vice president Trita Parsi for a conversation about the future of Democratic foreign policy and the United States’ role in a changing world. Rep. Smith will reflect on the past four years of Democratic foreign policy, and assess the utility and effectiveness of America’s current grand strategy. Does the U.S. need to dominate the world militarily? How should the Democratic position itself vis-a-vis Trump if he pursues effective diplomacy with North Korea, Iran or Russia? And how can members of both parties work towards better foreign policy for the U.S.?
The conversation will take place on Wednesday, March 12th from 12:00 – 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
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Adam Smith (D-WA) has served in the House of Representatives since 1996, currently representing Washington’s ninth congressional district. Smith serves on the House Armed Services Committee, previously serving as the chair of the committee. He created and now co-chairs the Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance. Smith attended the University of Washington Law School and previously served in the Washington State Senate. He later worked in both private and public practice, first as a lawyer at Cromwell, Mendoza and Belur in 1992, and then as a prosecutor for the City of Seattle from 1993-1995.
Trita Parsi is the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute. He is a award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has authored three books on US foreign policy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Iran and Israel. He was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington DC in both 2021 and 2022, and preeminent public intellectual Noam Chomsky calls Parsi “one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran.”