The USA, Trump & Friends with Don Watson

Canberra Writers Festival Presents

We've all seen the chaos, standover tactics and unlikely new ‘friends’ come and go. But what sort of political and economic system allowed Donald J Trump to reach the pinnacle of power...twice? How does understanding America and key moments in its foreign policy history help us work out what is going on now? Are we in totally unchartered waters? Join this expert America-watching panel of Don Watson (author of no fewer than three Quarterly Essays on American culture and politics and forthcoming work, The Shortest History of the United States of America), Professor Amin Saikal (How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan) and Clinton Fernandes (Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era), moderated by Allan Behm, International & Security Affairs advisor at The Australia Institute, as they look back, project forward and try to make sense of it all.