Regional Studies Center

Regional Studies Center held a seminar for “the research titled “American Foreign Policy towards Tunisia (2011-2020),” presented by Assist. Prof. Dr. Faris Turki Mahmood, on December 17, 2023.

The seminar aimed to study American foreign policy in an analytical manner that contributes to forming a better understanding and a more comprehensive vision of the components of that policy and its connection to the distinctive features of the American character, to the history of the American people, and to the political schools of thought that presented many visions that influenced foreign policy and shaped its main trends. In addition to how American political decision-making is made and the most prominent institutions contributing to it. The research also aims to study Washington’s policy towards Tunisia during (2011-2020) in terms of its paths, stages, and changes it went through and how they differed between Obama and Trump administrations.

The seminar included three topics: the first section involved American foreign policy in terms of its intellectual basis, the most prominent stages it went through, the features that distinguished it, and how to create and formulate that policy, whether in general or towards a specific issue.

The second section sheds light on the policy of the Obama administration (2009 – 2016) towards Tunisia, whether during the revolution or after it, and attempts to know and analyze the main approach of that administration, the most prominent steps it took, and the most important goals it sought to achieve. The third section focused on the basic differences between the orientations of the Obama and Trump administrations and the outcomes that resulted from those differences, which had a major impact on how to deal with the Tunisian subject while seeking to analyze those differences and find out their causes and results.