{"id":36208,"date":"2026-07-14T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/what-we-know-about-aocs-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:44:13","slug":"what-we-know-about-aocs-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/what-we-know-about-aocs-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About AOC’s Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered her first major foreign-policy remarks during a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference in February, a moderator asked her whether the United States should send troops to Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. After some pauses, she said<\/a>: \u201cWhat we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s answer reflected long-standing U.S. policy on this thorny issue. But explaining strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan doesn\u2019t make for a straightforward sound bite, and critics of the 36-year-old congresswoman went on the attack. \u201cAOC, she was unable to answer a simple question,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump said<\/a>. The New York Times<\/em><\/a> and Washington Post<\/em><\/a> derided Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s \u201cstumbles,\u201d ditching standard practice to transcribe her \u201cum\u201ds and \u201cah\u201ds.<\/p>\n

National-security experts saw Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s answer as a misstep in part because she has previously been enigmatic about her foreign policy. She turned down a 2020 invitation to speak in Munich, according to correspondence viewed by Foreign Policy<\/em>. At the time, she seemed squarely focused on delivering for her New York district.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s decision to appear at this year\u2019s conference came amid growing speculation<\/a> that she will seek higher office in 2028, whether as a contender for senator or even president. Munich is a well-known practice stage for ambitious politicians, and her remarks there attempted to define what a progressive U.S. foreign policy might look like under her leadership. The core question, however, is how she would transform such ideas into policy.<\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/em> spoke with 25 current and former advisors, progressive activists, and think tank experts in Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s orbit to map out her views on the Middle East, Latin America, and the world after Trump. (Ocasio-Cortez declined an interview request for this story.) As her star rises within the Democratic Party, some clues about her worldview are starting to emerge.<\/p>\n

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\n Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, sits in a white oval chair with a mic in her left hand, speaking in front of a panel. She is surrounded by attendees of the Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a panel on populism at the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 13.Sean Gallup\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez entered national politics after a stunning primary upset against longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018. Backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, she ran a grassroots campaign that rejected money from political action committees and lobbyists. Her win was a bright spot for progressives and young voters fed up with what they felt was an anemic Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

When she took office at 29, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to serve in Congress, joining other members of the so-called Squad of leftists challenging Trump during his first term. She focused her initial efforts in Congress on delivering for her constituents in the Bronx and Queens, but she has always had an interest in global affairs.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez grew up in a Puerto Rican family<\/a>, and her worldview was shaped by the island\u2019s neocolonial limbo. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of her identity,\u201d said Pamela Campos-Palma, a national security strategist who previously worked for the Working Families Party, which endorses Ocasio-Cortez. \u201cWhen you have that lived reality of less advantaged family members on an island that has a colonial relationship, you understand power.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inept U.S. response<\/a> to natural disasters in Puerto Rico has also contributed to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s focus on climate justice and her push for a Green New Deal<\/a>, Campos-Palma said.<\/p>\n

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\n A high-angle photograph shows a yellow campaign poster mounted on a wooden stick with the word “VOTE” written vertically in blue ink. The poster rests against a chair and a brass railing inside what appears to be a bar or restaurant setting. The poster features a portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alongside text encouraging people to vote on Tuesday, June 26th. Empty glass bottles and drinks sit on nearby tables and a bar counter. In the upper right corner, a person in a white t-shirt and denim shorts is partially visible sitting at a table.<\/p>\n

A sign for Ocasio-Cortez at her victory party in the Bronx after an upset against incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley, in New York City on June 26, 2018.Scott Heins\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez majored in international relations and economics at Boston University and spent a semester in Niger, working at a maternal health clinic and studying microfinance. \u201cI was able to communicate and learn with people in a very new way and begin to understand what life is like in a developing country,\u201d\u00a0she told<\/a> a student newspaper in 2010. She broke the Ramadan fast at a Nigerien home, which taught her, \u201cno matter what our background, we all have something to share,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez later wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s initial steps into foreign policy on the campaign trail involved taking a bold position on Israel-Palestine. In 2018, she described Israel\u2019s killing of more than 60 protesters during Gaza\u2019s Great March of Return as a \u201cmassacre<\/a>\u201d on Twitter. But in a PBS interview<\/a>, one of her first national media appearances, she struggled to explain her views on the conflict. So she called Matt Duss for help.<\/p>\n

Duss, then an advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders and a Middle East expert who had worked extensively in progressive think tanks, told Ocasio-Cortez to trust her instincts: Israel did massacre Palestinians, he recalled in an interview. He told her that the blob<\/a>\u2014that is, the Washington foreign-policy establishment\u2014would pressure lawmakers not to believe their eyes on Palestine or any issue that challenges their monopoly on power, he said.<\/p>\n

Duss remained in touch with Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s staff, and top Sanders aide Mike Casca went to work as her chief of staff in 2023. Duss thinks that the media response to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Taiwan line was misguided. \u201cI get why people are taking the opportunity to criticize the hesitation, but she got to the right answer,\u201d Duss said<\/a>. \u201cThe more interesting question is, what policy should we pursue to de-escalate, as she said\u201d\u2014not to mention that former President Joe Biden bucked decades of precedent when he said<\/a> that he would defend Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez came into office with more than 3 million followers on Twitter, now X, and today has some 12 million. Her social media celebrity brought more pressure to get everything right. An op-ed in the New York Times<\/em> in 2018, before she was elected, probed the need for progressives to develop new foreign-policy thinking under the headline \u201cWhat Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Think About the South China Sea?<\/a>\u201d It barely discussed her.<\/p>\n

The congresswoman quickly became a foil for centrist Democrats and a caricature of the left\u2019s absence of an international platform. Meanwhile, members of Trump\u2019s right wing derided her<\/a> with conspiracy theories and racist venom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez was quickly assigned to the House Oversight Committee, turning usually staid congressional hearings into viral clips by grilling corporate juggernauts such as Mark Zuckerberg. Though that role focuses on domestic issues, it has helped her form a foreign-policy framework focused on accountability. One can imagine Ocasio-Cortez forcing officials of both parties who have pursued reckless wars to face consequences\u2014or working to strengthen adherence to the U.S. Constitution and United Nations Charter.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez brought Campos-Palma to then-NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg\u2019s joint address to Congress. He railed against Russian aggression and sought Trump\u2019s support for a defense pact with Ukraine. Over lunch in the congressional cafeteria with Campos-Palma afterward, Ocasio-Cortez asked what NATO dynamics meant for her constituents.<\/p>\n

The congresswoman wanted to figure out how to talk to voters about foreign policy in a way that resonated with the Bronx and Queens; she understood that voters tend to feel checked out from international policies and that progressives have not messaged well on them. \u201cI hate to say this out loud,\u201d Campos-Palma said, \u201cbut when it comes to Russia, Ukraine, and like Palestine, Israel, we\u2019re not winning. We\u2019re not making gains.\u201d Ocasio-Cortez began to use her trips abroad to push Democrats to articulate a different way forward.<\/p>\n

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\n President of Chile Gabriel Boric walks with U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in front of a large white stone building. He is wearing a dark suit and purple shirt, and she is wearing a white suit.<\/p>\n

Then-Chilean President Gabriel Boric talks with Ocasio-Cortez as they tour the Palacio de La Moneda in Santiago, Chile, on Aug. 18, 2023.Sebasti\u00e1n Vivallo O\u00f1ate\/Agencia Makro\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n

In 2023, settling into her third term in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Brazil, Chile, and Colombia as part of a delegation of Spanish-speaking U.S. representatives. Though she had visited Denmark in 2019 to promote a global Green New Deal and Japan and South Korea earlier in 2023, her third trip abroad as a member of Congress was \u201cdifferent,\u201d Politico <\/em>wrote<\/a> at the time: Rather than meeting chamber-of-commerce types, the delegation connected with leftist leaders, organizers, and activists.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez toured Bras\u00edlia with Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva\u2019s longtime foreign-policy advisor, Celso Amorim. She met ministers and mayors and visited a protest encampment of the Landless Workers\u2019 Movement, a grassroots group that has fought for land reform in rural Brazil for decades\u2014applying her organizing background to statecraft. \u201cShe understands in a way that most Democrats in this country don\u2019t, the link between electoral politics and social movements,\u201d said Andre Pagliarini, a historian at Louisiana State University.<\/p>\n

In Chile, Ocasio-Cortez toured the home of Salvador Allende, the socialist president who died in a U.S.-backed coup 50 years earlier. Moved by the photographs and artwork of disappeared activists at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, she said<\/a> that the United States owed Chile an official apology and pushed for declassifying<\/a> Nixon administration archives from that period. The Biden administration ended up releasing<\/a> some of those key documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese questions of empire and the record of the U.S. in Latin America were things that she was very familiar with and wanted to explore more,\u201d said Alex Main, the director of international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who accompanied Ocasio-Cortez on the delegation. \u201cLatin America is what it is today in part as a result of U.S. policies in those countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the trip, Ocasio-Cortez heard about the harms of U.S. sanctions in Latin America, according to aides who traveled with her and spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer candid insights on the delegation. Since then, Ocasio-Cortez has continued to highlight the negative effects of sanctions on civilians from Cuba to Venezuela. In a 2023 statement<\/a>, she called <\/a>on Biden to \u201cre-examine policy towards Latin America, and stop contributing to the destabilization that drives migration,\u201d mentioning sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n

Since the U.S. capture of Maduro in January, Ocasio-Cortez has lambasted the Trump administration\u2019s intervention in the country. \u201cIt\u2019s about oil and regime change,\u201d she posted<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Ocasio-Cortez met with Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, according to a former congressional aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to maintain relationships\u2014a previously unreported meeting. She has been consistent in her criticism of the U.S. sanctions on Cuba and has amplified her criticism this year as the Trump administration implemented a harsh blockade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what we\u2019ve seen with Gaza\u2014this is a new era of depravity opened up, where there used to be, or there was this stated commitment on human rights that innocent civilians were almost exempt from the rules of war, from blockades,\u201d\u00a0Ocasio-Cortez told<\/a> a reporter. She has connected Palestine to broader foreign-policy failures of the Washington establishment, such as an overreliance on military interventions and economic sanctions to achieve U.S. aims.<\/p>\n

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\n A banner of three profile shots of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she speaks or listens during Congressional Hearings.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez is seen during House hearings from 2019 to 2025.Getty<\/span> <\/p>\n

The Munich Security Conference was Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s first real foray into the blob, however. On stage in February, she laid out a vision<\/a> that contradicted both Trump and Biden. She called out the \u201cbillionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics\u201d and promised to fight for the working class. She described the shortcomings of a rules-based order that has rarely applied to the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide: Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan, has become a close ally of Ocasio-Cortez and was impressed by her performance in Munich. \u201cWe come from different places and have different backgrounds,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to combat Donald Trump and MAGA and the growing isolationism in America, we have to go to the root causes of it. \u2026 So we\u2019re listening. We\u2019re paying attention to that. Alexandria and I are working together to move it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez was among the few leaders at the conference who described Israel\u2019s war in Gaza as a genocide\u2014and she got applause. \u201cShe is saying what a lot of people agree with, including in the audience at the Munich Security Conference,\u201d said Duss, who is now the executive vice president of the progressive Center for International Policy. Duss continues to advise Ocasio-Cortez in an informal capacity: He had brought in experts to brief her on the Middle East and Asia ahead of Munich and played a role in writing her remarks.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez warned of famine in Gaza during a 2024 speech on the House floor. \u201cThis is not just about Israel or Gaza. This is about us. The world will never be the same. And we will never be the same,\u201d she said<\/a>. She had been galvanized by pro-Palestine protests that shut down the Capitol rotunda in Washington and Grand Central Station in New York, according to Beth Miller of anti-Zionist progressive organization Jewish Voice for Peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that she really understands the way that outside pressure like that can help influence what members of Congress then do,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n

In centering income inequality as a national-security issue and standing up for marginalized constituencies, Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Munich remarks were transformative, said Sara Haghdoosti, the chief of program at progressive group MoveOn. \u201cGiving those ideas a platform,\u201d she said, \u201cis going to open up space for a new generation of thinkers and advocates to be in rooms that they haven\u2019t been able to be in before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the middle of speaking, with the lens slightly obscured, and the image taken at a 30 degree angle. She is wearing a dark top, and has both thumbs out.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, following her appearance at the Munich Security Conference, speaks at TU Berlin on Feb. 15.Annette Riedl\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n

Two days after her remarks in Munich, Ocasio-Cortez attended a university forum in Berlin hosted by the center-left German Social Democratic Party. An attendee challenged her to reconcile her position on Palestine with the political party hosting her\u2014which, like most in Germany, is staunchly pro-Israel. Ocasio-Cortez appealed to the importance of building global coalitions to battle authoritarianism. \u201cIf we go separately, we will lose it all,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cWe cannot let the right win, we just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat answer should have been the viral moment of the trip,\u201d said Patrick Gaspard, an advisor to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former head of the Center for American Progress. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s remarks captured the urgency of addressing global authoritarianism in a way that leads to \u201cdurable success, not episodic success between election cycles.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it was her remarks in Munich that made headlines\u2014and invited criticism from all directions. The U.S. right played up unforced errors, such as Ocasio-Cortez saying Venezuela is south of the equator or the rough start to her answer on Taiwan. \u201cI didn\u2019t know she was stupid,\u201d Trump told reporters. He added in a Truth Social post that Ocasio-Cortez \u201cshouldn\u2019t be talking badly about the U.S.A., especially on \u2018foreign soil.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Writers on the left, meanwhile, argued that her democracy-versus-autocracy framing had reproduced imperial thinking<\/a>. \u201cMunich is just a crazy world of hawks and neocons,\u201d said an activist, speaking on the condition of anonymity so as not to damage political relationships. \u201cYou can\u2019t go to Munich and beat the blob.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palestine is by far the most divisive foreign-policy issue on the left. Recently, Ocasio-Cortez said she opposes<\/a> \u201csending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and U.S. law.\u201d Some activists and commentators remain frustrated that she previously vote<\/a>d for defensive weapons for Israel, such as the Iron Dome, and that she has not disavowed her remarks at the Democratic National Convention in August 2024, where she said that the Biden administration was \u201cworking tirelessly to secure a cease-fire<\/a> in Gaza\u201d despite reports<\/a> to the contrary. Last July, vandals posted a sign<\/a> reading \u201cAOC funds genocide in Gaza\u201d on her Bronx office and splattered it with red paint.<\/p>\n

Critics say that Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s softening of her position reflects political expediency, while supporters say she has remained largely consistent on Palestine through her career. Still, Ocasio-Cortez has among the best voting records in Congress on pro-Palestine issues, according to the Institute for Middle East Understanding\u2019s scorecard<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019s walking into this lion\u2019s den, and whatever she says is going to be disruptive or not enough,\u201d Campos-Palma said.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez may be able to lose the support of the far left in a Senate race and still win. Her net favorability rating among Democrats ages 18 to 34 is a remarkable 81 percent, according to a January survey fielded by the New Republic<\/em><\/a> and Embold Research, and just below that among Democrats overall.<\/p>\n

In a hypothetical Senate primary race against incumbent Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, Ocasio-Cortez would win by 19 points, according to a 2025 Data for Progress<\/a> poll. A recent AtlasIntel<\/a> poll put her at the top of the pack for the Democratic presidential primaries. And she would beat out Vice President J.D. Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a presidential election, per a TPSI survey<\/a> released last month.<\/p>\n

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\n A close-up photograph focuses on a person wearing a bright red baseball cap with white embroidered text that reads “VANCE 2028”. The person, seen from the nose up, is wearing dark-rimmed glasses, smiling slightly, and has dark hair. The background is softly out of focus.<\/p>\n

A woman wears a \u201cVance 2028\u201d hat supporting U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance before Vance arrives to speak during a visit to a precision metal-stamping facility in Howell, Michigan, on Sept. 17, 2025.Jeff Kowalsky\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n

In Munich, Ocasio-Cortez was joined at a press conference by Crow, the Colorado representative. They advocated a working-class approach to foreign policy. Crow grew up in a Republican family in Wisconsin and thinks that Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s populist message could get the buy-in of Trump voters. Polls show<\/a> that Americans want a less militaristic approach to the world that prioritizes diplomacy, cuts back on sanctions, and scales back the defense budget.<\/p>\n

Some Democratic congressional leaders are stuck in the old way of doing foreign policy, which may be why they ceded the antiwar lane to Trump<\/a> in the 2024 election. But the deeply unpopular<\/a> Iran war may provide Ocasio-Cortez a path to lead her party out of the wilderness\u2014in the midterms and beyond. Eventually, that effort might also help her seek higher office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to build a new foreign-policy infrastructure and vision,\u201d Crow said, \u201cto put Americans, and working-class Americans in particular, back in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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