October 2017: Jake Sullivan | 4 things US must do to shape foreign policy

Former senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton, Jake Sullivan said the U.S. must do 4 things to shape a more effective and sustainable foreign policy. These include: 1. Elevate foreign economic policy within U.S. foreign policy (@16.25) 2. Do a better job at sharing the burden of global problem solving (@18.46) 3. Deal more effectively with the question of how U.S. should use its military power (@21.47) 4. Put values back at the heart of U.S. foreign policy (@24.30) Sullivan joined Hillary Clinton during her 2008 Presidential Campaign and became her deputy chief of staff. He was also Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Following Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 campaign, he joined Vice President Joe Biden as his top national security adviser during the Barack Obama administration. He was chosen by Obama to be part of a delegation that met with Iranian diplomats in efforts to broker a historic nuclear deal that was eventually announced in 2013. Sullivan is currently Marin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.