Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford is the Magro Family Distinguished Visitor in International Affairs at Dartmouth College. She previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and was a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. She is the author of "The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age," winner of the Douglas Dillon Book Award. She has appeared alongside Jon Stewart, Christiane Amanpour, and numerous others.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The far right makes unnerving gains in EU elections

June 14, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The steady trend of increased support for a platform that had been on the fringes of European politics since World War II remains alarming.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: South Africa’s election could bring a reckoning

May 31, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The African National Congress is finally being called to task in South Africa's election for its failure to deliver better lives for its people.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering displacement across the world

May 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

As of mid-2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced globally. Mass migration can carry destabilization elsewhere.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: College protests and the right side of history

May 3, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

Student protesters' approach most closely echoes the protests against South Africa’s apartheid government.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: With war and US dysfunction, NATO at 75 faces an uncertain future

April 19, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Time is not on NATO’s side, and any significant delay in the passage of additional American aid for Ukraine could be fatal.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: As Russia’s actions demonstrate, our world order is fraying

April 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

If America is unwilling or unable to cajole its friends to abide by a set of international standards, what hope do we have of reining in the bad acts of...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Haiti can’t right itself without restoring security — and a working government

March 22, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Haiti's history of foreign intervention makes it critical that some credible Haitian authority be in place to sign off on a foreign force.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: With Israel, the United States isn’t as weak as it’s acting

March 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Israel has a significant dependence on the United States for its ability to wage war. But you wouldn’t know it by how America is acting.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Dysfunction in US makes it clear that Europe is at risk for outsourcing its security

February 23, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Most European countries have taken steps recently to address defense shortcomings, but they’ve nearly wasted two years with a lack of cohesiveness and urgency.

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Sudan falls apart while the world looks away

February 9, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

How can the world be so attentive to the plight of Gaza’s civilians and so unconcerned with those in Sudan?

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