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Leadership or drift: what's next for US foreign policy?

Hosted by the Phelan United States Centre

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Steven Erlanger

Professor Anand Menon

Professor Leslie Vinjamuri

Chair

Professor Peter Trubowitz

Professor Peter Trubowitz

What will the next US president’s strategic priorities be internationally? What are the implications for Europe and the rest of the world?

In this roundtable discussion, leading experts on world affairs take stock of the international challenges and opportunities facing the new administration in America. 

Meet our speakers and chair

Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) is Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, based in Berlin after six years in Brussels, from August 2017. He was London bureau chief of The New York Times for four years, after five years as bureau chief in Paris and before that, four years as bureau chief in Jerusalem. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and another for Explanatory Reporting in 2002 for a series on Al Qaeda. In 2005, he was awarded the 2005 Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle East journalism, and in 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. 

Anand Menon (@anandMenon1) is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London. He also directs the UK in a Changing Europe project. His areas of research interest include the policies and institutions of the European Union, European security, and British politics. He contributes regularly to both print and broadcast media. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the European Union, and co-author of Brexit and British Politics. 

Leslie Vinjamuri (@londonvinjamuri) is Director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House and Professor of International Relations at SOAS University of London. She leads the Institute’s research on the US and International Order. Her recent publications include Why Multilateralism Still Matters and Building Global Prosperity: Proposals for Sustainable Growth. Leslie is an alumnus of LSE.

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

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