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Page comments on Instability and Trump's Manifest Destiny rhetoric

February 7, 2025 NPR
Ambassador Susan Page
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Susan Page, professor at the Ford School, discussed with NPR President Trump's use of Manifest Destiny in his inaugural address and the possible impacts of unpredictable foreign policy including the threat of tariffs.

 

Susan D. Page

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Susan D. Page

Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor from Practice at University of Michigan Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center.
Page applies her vast foreign policy experience to the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti.