American foreign policy on agenda in Queen’s public lecture

In the week that news headlines are dominated by American President George Bush’s controversial visit to London, United States foreign policy will be placed under the spotlight in a major public lecture at Queen’s University in Belfast.

Neta Crawford, an Associate Professor at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an academic specialist in international relations theory and international security, will discuss some of the contentious issues arising from current American foreign policy in her lecture on Thursday.

In her talk, entitled 'The Institutionalisation of Fear and the Logics of US Foreign Policy', Professor Crawford will examine and evaluate changes in American foreign policy since 9/11.

In particular, she will ask whether current policy could be counter-productive and inadvertently trigger the global terrorism it aims to eradicate.

Professor Crawford’s lecture will take place in Room 21.101, in University Square at 5pm. Admission is free.

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