Richard Haass is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, having served as its president for 20 years. He is also senior counsellor at Centerview Partners. Previously, he served as Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department and was President George W Bush’s special envoy to Northern Ireland. He is the author, most recently, of ‘The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens’ and writes ‘Home & Away’, a weekly Substack newsletter. Here he talks to Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of Chatham House’s US and the Americas Programme, about the impact of Kamala Harris on the presidential race and the prospect of an unconstrained second Trump administration.
Richard Haass: ‘Kamala Harris lacks foreign policy experience? That’s plain wrong’
The president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations talks to Leslie Vinjamuri about how Harris has ‘energized’ the US election, the dangers of an inward-facing America and the big job that awaits Britain in Europe.