# How Democrats Can Reimagine Foreign Policy

- Link: https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/2026/03/how-democrats-can-reimagine-foreign-policy/
- Published: 2026-03-18T11:18:43-04:00

### Matt Duss on AOC in Munich and the future of progressive foreign policy

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave her first major foreign policy remarks
at this year’s Munich Security Conference to lay out her vision of progressive foreign
policy. Many are speculating that she is preparing for a presidential run in 2028.
She has called for a reckoning with the United States’ history of intervention and
repression abroad and attempted to offer an alternative to Trump’s “might makes 
right” approach. 

In this episode, the [Institute for Global Affairs](https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/)’
Jonathan Guyer is joined by Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for
International Policy and former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders, to discuss foreign
policy on the left. Matt gives Jonathan his perspective on AOC in Munich, where 
the Democrats went wrong on foreign policy, and how they ought to respond to the
Iran war.

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**Matt Duss** is executive vice president of the Center for International Policy.
He was previously a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. From 2017 to 2022, he was a foreign policy adviser
to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), also serving as foreign policy director for the
2020 Sanders presidential campaign. His writing has appeared in _The New York Times_,
_The Washington Post_, _Foreign Affairs_, _The Nation_, _The American Prospect_,
and _Foreign Policy_.

Find Matt on X: [https://x.com/mattduss](https://x.com/mattduss)  

And for an exploration of MAGA foreign policy, [check out our recent conversation](https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/2026/02/making-sense-of-maga-foreign-policy/)
with Curt Mills of _The American Conservative_.