Experts Guide

Burke is an expert on US history and politics since 1945. He can discuss the Cold War, post-Cold War order, U.S. relations with Cuba and America’s evolving role in international security. Other topics include NATO past and present and its modern role in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, the Monroe Doctrine and the Platt Amendment and how those doctrines resonate in 21st-century debates over U.S.–Latin America relations, America’s 20th-century wars and how lessons from the Vietnam War and Gulf conflicts inform U.S. strategy today, analysis of America’s military presence and economic reach across the world, and global economic and ecological change, including how fossil fuels, industrialization and resource competition have reshaped the global order and influenced U.S. foreign policy.

Burrell is an expert on U.S. history, military science and international relations. He can discuss how the decades-long conflict in Venezuela recently came to the forefront of international attention following the U.S. military extraction of dictator Nicolas Maduro and the complexities of his drug indictment in New York.