“From the American People”: A Geography of U.S. Foreign Aid in Israel/Palestine

This talk explores the relationship between national securitization, liberal warfare, and transnational linkages and encounters between the U.S. and the North Africa/Middle East region. Drawing on over a year of research in Israel/Palestine, this talk examines how the tethering of U.S. terrorism law and policy to foreign aid transactions is giving rise to expansive networks of surveillance and enforcement far beyond U.S. borders. In so doing, it offers insight into the ways in which American power remains a significant force in the making and unmaking of political geographies at the global scale and in the Middle East specifically.