In A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden.(Harvard University Press, 2024), Professor Osamah Khalil examines the relationship between domestic politics and policy and U.S. foreign policy over six decades. He traces the intersections of the wars on crime, drugs, and terror from the Vietnam War era to the present. Khalil’s book talk will focus on how the U.S. applied the rhetoric of civilization and barbarism to American cities and conflict zones overseas.

Dr. Osamah F. Khalil  is a professor of history at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden (Harvard University Press, 2024) and America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (Harvard University Press, 2016). Dr. Khalil is also the editor of United States Relations with China and Iran: Toward the Asian Century (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and is a frequent media commentator and contributor for local, national, and international media outlets.

This talk is part of the Middle Eastern Cities in Conflict series organized by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. It is cosponsored by the Department of History and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program.