Christopher Sands, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., will give a presentation on the foreign policy of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Duke University.
Sands' talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available across Trent Street in the Pickins parking lot.
"It has 'homeland' in its title, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed an extensive -- and largely unknown by the public -- network of foreign contacts in its short life," said Stephen Kelly, associate director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke and event organizer.
Sands will discuss how the DHS has developed its foreign policy, how it interfaces with other U.S. foreign affairs agencies like the U.S. State Department, and how these relationships affect the world.
Homeland security has had a major impact on U.S. borders with both Canada and Mexico, and Kelly said efforts to balance security and trade have become major bilateral and trilateral issues.
Kelly added that DHS also interacts with other countries when screening airline passengers arriving from Europe, containers arriving from Asia, or illegal immigrants arriving from Central America, for example.
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke.