{"id":3776,"date":"2024-03-25T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:58:20","slug":"the-legacy-of-american-racism-at-home-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Authors: <\/b>Travis L. Adkins<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Judd Devermont<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b>\u00a0 Georgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher<\/b>: Foreign Policy<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place: <\/b>June 19, 2020\/USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature: <\/b>Argument<\/span><\/p>

Word Count: <\/b>1779<\/span><\/p>

Link: <\/b>https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/06\/19\/american-racism-foreign-policy-impact\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords: <\/b>America, Racism, Foreign policy<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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The authors of this article have a long background in foreign policy in international nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations, the intelligence community, and the National Security Council. They discuss in this article their experiences concerning the impact of domestic racism on foreign policy. They argue that it was believed to be inappropriate for foreign-policy specialists to discuss domestic issues. Accordingly, it takes a long time before Americans can learn how US national security professionals viewed racism within the United States; the ideas and condemnation of diplomats and senior officials about racial inequality and segregations are revealed only in declassified reports and memoirs. The authors suggest that this \u201cartificial divide between the professional and personal sidelined some of our sharpest foreign-policy minds from addressing systematic racism in America.\u201d The latest development with the murder of George Floyd tore down the wall between the personal and professional, as many diplomats openly say what they think. The authors emphasize that if the United States wants to heal its society and remain a source of inspiration abroad it has to embrace self-criticism openly and publicly. The authors also promote the idea to practice what was before rare for foreign- policy practitioners: to use their platforms to speak to the American people and audiences abroad about racism. This will result in changing the way the foreign-policy community operates.\u00a0 Domestic racism has for a long time undermined the US\u2019 foreign policy, this has especially been the case in Africa. The authors close the article by suggesting that in times of national crises \u201cAmericans often hear political, civic, and business leaders decry, \u2018We are better than this!\u2019 Now is the chance for the foreign-policy community to prove it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>


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Authors: Travis L. Adkins and Judd Devermont Affiliation:\u00a0 Georgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies\u00a0 Organization\/Publisher: Foreign Policy Date\/Place: June 19, 2020\/USA Type of Literature: Argument Word Count: 1779 Link: https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/06\/19\/american-racism-foreign-policy-impact\/ Keywords: America, Racism, Foreign policy Brief: The authors of this article have a long background in foreign policy in international nongovernmental organizations, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-americas"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"The Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"The Americas","comment_count":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Legacy-of-American.jpg",500,300,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"CIGA Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?author=23"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"The Americas<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Authors: Travis L. 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