You may recall that during the US Presidential campaign, Trump trashed the United States, calling it a "catastrophe" and a "Third World country" typified by "carnage" and "weakness." Kal’s lecture will evaluate this claim, comparing the USA to a sample of six other OECD countries. He poses some questions for us: Did Trump fantasize or diagnose correctly? What about his proposed remedies?
Kal Holsti (PhD Stanford, 1961) is currently a Research Associate with the Centre for International Relations in the Liu Institute. His areas of special interest are international relations theory, security studies, and foreign policy analysis. He has authored many articles and several major books in these areas and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada as well as the first Canadian to be elected as a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
