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In her address to the IIEA, Dr Mathews examines the future of US foreign policy in the wake of the withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier this year. She argues that once attention shifts from tactical errors made in the closing weeks of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to, what she describes as, \u201cthe drifting purpose and self-delusion" of the preceding 20 years, the\xa0shock of failure\xa0in America\u2019s longest war may provide an open moment to re-examine earlier interventions and to reconsider US foreign policy in the post\u2013Cold War era\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nDr Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie\u2019s\xa0president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the non-profit arena, and in journalism and science policy. From 1982 to 1993, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute. Dr Mathews has published widely in newspapers and in foreign policy and scientific journals and has co-authored and co-edited three books. She holds a PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.