Abstract: 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.

Bio: 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), which was named a Best Book of 2017 by Foreign Affairs. He is also the editor of United States Relations with China and Iran: Toward the Asian Century (Bloomsbury Press, 2019). Dr. Khalil is a graduate of Temple University (B.A., 1994) and is a frequent media commentator and contributor for local, national, and international media outlets.