Elizabeth Shackelford

About Lizzy

Elizabeth Shackelford is a writer, political commentator, and foreign policy analyst who served as a career diplomat in the U.S. Department of State, with postings in Poland, South Sudan, Somalia, and Washington, D.C. She is the author of The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age, winner of the Douglas Dillon Book Award.

The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age

The Problem with Jon Stewart

“When you’re looking at places that are already unstable and troubled, you have underlying issues that need to be addressed. None of those can be addressed with a military solution.”

Elizabeth Shackelford weighs in on the problem with the US military-industrial excess and the budget disparities between defense and diplomacy.

Watch Lizzy’s full interview on S2E8 of The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV.

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