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Bloomberg SurveillanceSingle Best Idea with Tom Keene: Peter Trubowitz & David BahnsenTom Keene breaks down the Single Best Idea from the latest edition of Bloomberg Surveillance Radio. In this episode, we feature conversations with Peter Trubowitz & David Bahnsen. Watch Tom and Paul LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACFSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-03-0304 min
Bloomberg SurveillancePresident Trump's Tariffs; Ukraine Mineral Deal; Bitcoin JumpsWatch Tom and Paul LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene & Paul SweeneyMarch 3rd, 2025Today's Podcast Features:1) Peter Trubowitz, professor at London School of Economics, joins for an extended discussion on tariffs and geopolitics. It comes as President Donald Trump is planning to impose new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as doubling a levy on China, which would apply to roughly $1.5 trillion in annual imports. 2) Jack Devine, founder and Chairman at the Arkin Group, joins to discuss Friday's Oval Office meltdown and what's ahead for...
2025-03-0337 min
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesEurope confronts Trump: the politics of transatlantic relationsLess than two weeks into his second term and President Donald Trump is already dominating global headlines. From reigniting trade war threats and doubling down on his ambitions to acquire Greenland, to withdrawing from multilateral agreements and demanding that NATO allies allocate 5% of their GDP to defence—his administration is swiftly attempting to reshape global dynamics. Meanwhile, Trump’s ally Elon Musk is stirring political controversy and further unsettling European leaders. This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Camille Lons, deputy head of ECFR’s Paris office, Marta Prochwicz Jazowska, deputy head of ECFR’s Warsaw office, Jana Puglierin...
2025-01-3133 min
Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesThe state of democracy after a year of electionsContributor(s): Dr Victor Agboga, Professor Mukulika Banerjee, Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Peter Trubowitz | This year billions of people around the world have been to the polls. What have been the surprises and takeaways from these election results?
Our panel of LSE researchers explore some of the issues that have come to the fore in this bumper year for international politics, along with the key outcomes and implications for the world in 2025.Featured image (used in source code with watermark added): Photo by Mikhail Nilov via Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/vote-badges-on-person-s-fingers-8846624/
2024-12-111h 28Bloomberg SurveillanceAnalysis: Donald Trump Re-Elected PresidentWatch Tom and Paul LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene and Paul SweeneyNovember 6th, 2024What would YOU like to hear about on Bloomberg? Help make shows like ours even better by taking our Bloomberg audience survey. (https://bit.ly/4eIFhe5)Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic Governor of Connecticut, reacts to how Democrats fared in the election Steph Guild, Head of Investments Strategy at Robinhood, on how retail investors are trading and traded the election Peter Trubowitz, professor at London School of Economics, geopolitical and geo-economic implications of...
2024-11-0630 min
Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsGeopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture by Brian Burgoon, Peter TrubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture Author: Brian Burgoon, Peter Trubowitz Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A large, widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core foreign policy principles that Western governments have championed for over...
2024-09-2430 min
LSE Research channel | Video2024 U.S. election: what you need to knowContributor(s): | There is a lot at stake for the United States and the world in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In the first episode of our Global Politics series, Prof Peter Trubowitz, Director of the Phelan U.S. Centre at LSE, explains what makes this election different and what we should watch out for.
2024-02-0203 min
The Rachman ReviewWill Donald Trump end up in prison or the White House?Donald Trump was indicted this week on charges related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. But the former president is also in the running for the 2024 presidential election and polls suggest he’s likely to win the Republican nomination. Gideon Rachman is joined by Professor Peter Trubowitz, director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, to discuss what this all means for Trump’s future and the future of American democracy. Want more?Trump and American democracy’s time of trial Donald Tr...
2023-08-0321 min
LSE PodcastsLSE: The Ballpark | Geopolitics and Democracy with Brian Burgoon and Peter TrubowitzIn May 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson spoke to Brian Burgoon, Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, about their new book Geopolitics and Democracy, which will be published in July 2023 by Oxford University Press.
In this Extra Inning podcast, they discuss the rise of anti-globalist forces which are against international cooperation and multilateralism, and how this connects to the decline of the welfare state an...
2023-07-211h 05LSE PodcastsLSE: The Ballpark | The defining global challenges with the Lloyd George Study GroupWe live in turbulent times. Globalized challenges like climate change, pandemics, migration, and supply chain disruptions are rising in urgency. With these and other challenges in mind, in June 2023, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the LSE Phelan US Centre convened the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance.
For this episode of the Ballpark, we asked each of the ten members of the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance one question: What do you take to be the defining global challenges of the coming decades? Their answers tell us a great deal about what global challenges we...
2023-06-2329 min
Chatham HouseThe US midterms surprise, COP27 commencesIn the United States, the midterm elections threw up some surprising results, with the anticipated Republican ‘red wave’ failing to materialise. Meanwhile at COP27 in Egypt, world leaders met in the first week of the summit. What did their presence achieve? To find out, returning to the podcast this week with Bronwen Maddox are Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of our US and Americas Programme who was in Atlanta Georgia for the midterms and Anna Aberg Research Associate, Environment and Society Programme who is on the ground at COP27. Joining them are Peter Trubowitz, a Professor of International Relations, and Director of the...
2022-11-1132 min
Shaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Plague Year: America in the time of COVID-19Contributor(s): Lawrence Wright | From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the US Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of COVID-19 in authoritative, galvanising detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. A vivid, sweeping, panoramic account of the pandemic’s origins and the missed opportunities and mistakes in the ongoing global fight to contain it.
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Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) has been...
2021-10-061h 03Shaping the Post-COVID WorldFrom Crisis to Transformation: a path forwardContributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter | Join us for this event discussing Anne-Marie Slaughter's new book, Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics.
Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughter’s candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organisations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future.Weaving together personal stories and reflections with insights from the latest research in...
2021-10-0559 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Work of the Future: where will it come from?Contributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Professor David Autor | How will technological innovation change the workplace? How can we harness technological advances for social benefit? Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
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David Autor (@davidautor) is Ford Professor of Economics and Associate Department Head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. He is Co-Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the National Bureau of Economic Research Labor Studies...
2021-05-051h 30
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesTowards stability: A new concert of powersOur system is not fit to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. This has been laid bare not just by the covid-19 pandemic, but also by the increasing power competition between the US and China, and the blockage and weaponisation of the multilateral system and the current crisis of democracy. Could a new “concert of powers” possibly be the solution? This week, host Mark Leonard talks to Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University; Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the US and the Americas programme and Dean of t...
2021-04-2334 min
LSE PodcastsIsolationism: the future of US foreign policy?During the presidency of Donald Trump, the US pursued a more self-interested and transactional foreign policy, often seeing relations with other countries as a zero-sum game.
Charles Kupchan discusses his new book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World. He looks at how the resurgence of isolationism is reshaping America foreign policy and what it means for the post-COVID world.
You can order the book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney.
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2021-03-1159 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldIsolationism: the future of US foreign policy?Contributor(s): Professor Charles Kupchan, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri | During the presidency of Donald Trump, the US pursued a more self-interested and transactional foreign policy, often seeing relations with other countries as a zero-sum game.
Charles Kupchan discusses his new book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World. He looks at how the resurgence of isolationism is reshaping America foreign policy and what it means for the post-COVID world.
You can order the book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events inde...
2021-03-0459 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldHow the Pandemic Polarised UsContributor(s): Professor Peter Trubowitz, Professor Sara Hobolt, Dr Florian Foos |
We explore political polarisation in the UK, EU, US and on social media in light of COVID-19, and how democracy can be built back.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the world was plunged into lockdown, nations were unified in the fight against the virus. As time has rolled on, a suffering economy, rising infection and death rates, a historic election, Brexit, and confusion around devolved powers have intensified the divide in political attitudes to ideological extremes.
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Florian Foos (@FlorianFoos) is Assistant Professor in...
2021-03-0259 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Recurring Crises of American DemocracyContributor(s): Professor Robert Lieberman, Professor Suzanne Mettler | Join us for a discussion of America’s current predicament and how it differs from past threats to democracy in the US.
You can order the book at Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy.
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Robert Lieberman (@r_lieberman) is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He studies American political development, race and American politics, and public policy. He has also written extensively about the development of American democracy and the links between American and comparative politics. His most recent book is Four Th...
2021-02-1058 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Next Four Years: what should we expect for America?Contributor(s): Professor Desmond King, Mark Landler, Professor Paula D. McClain, Professor Theda Skocpol | What will the next administration's international and domestic priorities be? A roundtable discussion with leading experts on American politics.
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Desmond King is Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He specializes in the study of the American state in US executive politics, race and politics in American political development, and the financial bases of US politics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and is also a member of the American Academy...
2021-01-211h 28Shaping the Post-COVID WorldWhy Does Globalisation Fuel Populism, and What Can We Do About It?Contributor(s): Professor Sara Hobolt | Dani Rodrik will explore the globalisation backlash and the ways (hyper-) globalisation has produced a political counter-reaction. He will present an alternative model of globalisation that is more compatible with economic prosperity and social inclusion.
Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is currently President-Elect of the International Economic Association, and co-director of Economics for Inclusive Prosperity. His newest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy.
Sara Hobolt (@sarahobolt) is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions...
2020-12-081h 28Shaping the Post-COVID WorldInternational Climate Politics after the US Presidential ElectionContributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Naomi Oreskes, Professor Lord Stern, Laurence Tubiana | Taking place one week after the election, this panel assesses the outcome of the US election and the prospects for the future of American and international climate policy.
The outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election could have a lasting impact on the future of international climate politics. With the US set to exit from the Paris Agreement in November, a win by Donald Trump would seal America’s withdrawal from climate multilateralism. His opponent Joe Biden, who has promised a Green New Deal, would recommit the US to...
2020-11-091h 31Shaping the Post-COVID WorldPolicing as a Public GoodContributor(s): Professor Tracey L Meares | In the wake of public criticism of contemporary criminal justice processes in general and of policing specifically, especially in the United States, some critics of these institutions and processes have called for abolition.
In this lecture, Professor Meares will discuss the historical context of the abolition of slavery in the United States, locating it in the broader context of Reconstruction, and will offer an idea of policing as a public good that is central to a conception of citizenship.
Tracey L Meares (@mearest) is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of...
2020-10-2259 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldA World Safe for DemocracyContributor(s): Professor G. John Ikenberry, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Minouche Shafik | For the last two hundred years, the liberal internationalist project has built towards an open, rules based, progressive world. Outside threats from illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist populist movements now mean the project is in crisis. G. John Ikenberry will discuss the history of liberal internationalism and will argue for its continued relevance as a force to protect liberal democracy in a twenty first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence.
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs...
2020-10-081h 28Shaping the Post-COVID WorldDeaths of Despair and the Future of CapitalismContributor(s): Professor Anne Case, Professor Sir Angus Deaton | For the white working class, today’s America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the university educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this event, Anne Case and Angus Deaton will discuss their book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism and will tie the crisis to the weakening position of labour, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a greedy health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Ca...
2020-09-301h 29
LSE PodcastsThe Ballpark | Extra Innings: Russian Hackers, Trolls & #DemocracyRIP: Prof Kathleen Jamieson eventOn the 27th of February 2020, the LSE US Centre hosted Professor Kathleen Jamieson for the event Russian Hackers, Trolls and #DemocracyRIP. In this lecture, Professor Jamieson brought together what is known about the impact of the Russian interventions in the 2016 US presidential election, outlined the contours of the #DemocracyRIP Russian plans to undercut the presidency of Hillary Clinton, and asked what’s next and what can we do about it.
Professor Kathleen Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center. She is al...
2020-06-231h 26
LSE PodcastsRace and Policing in America [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor Tracey L. Meares, Professor Tim Newburn, Dr Coretta Phillips | George Floyd’s death has sparked widespread protest in the U.S. over police abuse. This roundtable will discuss the sources of police violence and what can be done to fix America’s police and make law enforcement accountable. Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at LSE. From 1998 to 2010 she held a Chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE; she returned to LSE in 2013 after spending three years as Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of C...
2020-06-121h 28
LSE PodcastsDo Morals Matter: presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Joseph S. Nye | In his new book, Do Morals Matter?, which he will discuss in this talk, Joseph S. Nye examines the role of ethics in US foreign policy during the post-1945 era. Working through each presidency from FDR to Trump, Nye scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. He evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (@Joe_Nye) is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of...
2020-06-041h 29
LSE PodcastsShaping the WorldWhat are the forces that are shaping the world today? LSE experts explore the current political, economic and social landscape by using examples from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. How do they see the changing world from the perspective of those areas and what should the agenda be for the social sciences from their experience and expertise?
Simon Hix (@simonjhix) is Pro-Director (Research) and Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at LSE. He is one of the leading researchers, teachers, and commentators on European and comparative politics in the UK. He has published over 100 books and articles and has...
2020-04-141h 18LSE PodcastsShaping America's FutureWho will win the 2020 US presidential election? The outcome could shape America's - and the world's - future for years to come. On March 3rd, 2020, Americans in 14 states will pick their candidates to face off against President Trump in the November presidential election.
With the largest Democratic field of candidates in recent memory, Super Tuesday will reshape the already hotly contested Democratic race. Will the party turn to a progressive candidate or will a more centrist candidate emerge from Super Tuesday as the clear front-runner? The day after this important contest, join us for a panel discussion with academics and...
2020-04-1459 min
LSE PodcastsShaping America's Future [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs, Gideon Rachman, Professor Leah Wright Rigueur, Professor Linda Yueh | Who will win the 2020 US presidential election? The outcome could shape America's - and the world's - future for years to come. On March 3rd, 2020, Americans in 14 states will pick their candidates to face off against President Trump in the November presidential election. With the largest Democratic field of candidates in recent memory, Super Tuesday will reshape the already hotly contested Democratic race. Will the party turn to a progressive candidate or will a more centrist candidate emerge from Super Tuesday as the clear front-runner...
2020-03-0459 min
LSE PodcastsShaping the World [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Simon Hix, Dr George Ofosu, Professor Peter Trubowitz | What are the forces that are shaping the world today? LSE experts explore the current political, economic and social landscape by using examples from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. How do they see the changing world from the perspective of those areas and what should the agenda be for the social sciences from their experience and expertise? Simon Hix (@simonjhix) is Pro-Director (Research) and Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at LSE. He is one of the leading researchers, teachers, and commentators on European and comparative politics in...
2020-03-021h 18
LSE PodcastsThe Ballpark | Extra Innings: Millennial Economics and US Politics: Joseph Sternberg eventOn the 9th of October 2019, the US Centre hosted Joseph Sternberg of The Wall Street Journal at our public event, “How Millennial Economics Will Shake Up US Politics”. At the event, he presented an overview of Millennial economics in America and outlined how the Great Recession affected Millennials in particular. He also discussed the continuing effects of the recession even as economic conditions have improved, and some of the political issues that will continue to challenge Americans across the Boomer-Millennial divide.
Joseph Sternberg is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes the Political Econ...
2020-02-031h 25
LSE PodcastsCan America Still Have a Successful Foreign Policy? [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Stephen M. Walt
Professor Stephen M. Walt | Since its victory in the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy has been largely a failure. Neither Republicans nor Democrats seem able to manage world affairs as successfully as they once did. Donald Trump took office pledging to fix the problem and “make America great again,” but his actions as president have done nothing to make Americans or the world either safer or more prosperous. What would a more realistic and successful foreign policy look like, and what needs to change in order to implement it? Stephen M. Walt (@stephenWalt) is t...
2019-10-211h 28
LSE PodcastsFinding My Voice: my journey to the West Wing and the path forward [Audio]Speaker(s): Valerie Jarrett | Join Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama in conversation with LSE's Peter Trubowitz about her new book. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama’s trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who “got” him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team o...
2019-06-1857 min
LSE PodcastsFrom the 'End of History' to the Crisis of the Liberal Order: rethinking the end of the Cold War [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor John Ikenberry, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Peter Trubowitz, Professor Vladislav Zubok | How and why has the liberal promise of the post-Cold War world not been realised? Where is the world now heading? Is the post-Cold War era over? In 1989 the Cold War ended. American pundit, Francis Fukuyama, confidently announced the end of history with the complete victory of liberalism word-wide. Globalisation and democracy represented the wave of the future. But thirty year later the tide of history appears to have turned. Fukuyama now talks bleakly of the crisis of democracy and the possible demise of the liberal...
2019-05-081h 23
LSE PodcastsIs the Presidency of Donald Trump a Political Aberration? [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Skowronek | The presidency of Donald Trump is so readily labeled "not normal" and "off-the charts" that it is hard to think of it any other way. Stephen Skowronek examines long-running patterns in the politics of presidential leadership to sort out what is new, and what is not, in the Trump phenomenon. In Skowronek hands presidential history is not a gauzy backdrop to something anomalous, but a critical source of insight into contemporary American politics. Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University. He has published extensively on the development...
2019-05-021h 27
LSE PodcastsIn Conversation with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [Audio]Speaker(s): Nancy Pelosi | Join us for this conversation between Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and LSE's Peter Trubowitz, Director of the US Centre at the School. Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) is the 52nd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Now in her third term as Speaker, Pelosi made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency, the first person to do so in more than 60 years. Speaker Pelosi is the...
2019-04-151h 12
LSE PodcastsLSE Festival 2019 | Pessimism and the State of the World [Audio]Speaker(s): Minouche Shafik, Professor Andrés Velasco | Why are people in some of the richest countries in the world so miserable when so much of the economic and social data show massive material progress? Where did all that anger and anxiety come from that is manifested in populism, terrorism, and worsening well-being and mental health? Are we, despite the massive gains in material progress in recent decades, living in an age of insecurity? Minouche Shafik is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Andrés...
2019-02-251h 20
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfTexas, Trump and the Future of America [Audio]Speaker(s): Lawrence Wright | Come learn about the most controversial state in America and what it tells us about Donald Trump and the future of the US. This event marks the publications of Lawrence's new book, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America. Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Department Head of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International...
2018-05-151h 22Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfPartners or Adversaries? Managing US-China Relations in the Era of Trump [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Michael Mastanduno, Minouche Shafik | The post-Cold War US-China “grand bargain” in economics and security is now unravelling, and faces new uncertainty in the era of Trump. Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A Rockefeller Professor of Government, Dartmouth College and the inaugural Susan Strange Professor of International Relations at LSE. Minouche Shafik is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Head of Department and Director of the US Centre at LSE. The Department of International Relations (@LSEIRDept) is now in its...
2017-11-161h 26Alex Burd Archives - Pod AcademyTrump: the first 100 daysWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? “C minus overall,” says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days.
Alex Burd (@alexburd) talked to Professor Trubowitz last year during the presidential race, now he returns to get the Professor’s view on th...
2017-04-2900 min
Humanities and Social Sciences – Pod AcademyTrump: the first 100 daysWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? “C minus overall,” says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days.
Alex Burd (@alexburd) talked to Professor Trubowitz last year during the presidential race, now he returns to get the Professor’s view on th...
2017-04-2929 minPod AcademyTrump: the first 100 daysWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? “C minus overall,” says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days.
Alex Burd (@alexburd) talked to Professor Trubowitz last year during the presidential race, now he returns to get the Professor’s view on th...
2017-04-2929 minPod AcademyTrump: the first hundred daysWhat is the scorecard for President Donald Trump after the first 100 Days? “C minus overall,” says Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Trump said he was going to shake up Washington, and he has, but on the legislative front he has done little of what he promised in his first 100 days.
Alex Burd talked to Professor Trubowitz last year during the presidential race, now he returns to get the Professor’s view on the...
2017-04-2929 minLatest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe First 100 Days: taking stock of the Trump Presidency [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Charlie Beckett, Gideon Rachman, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Professor Joan C. Williams | Join the US Centre for a roundtable debate about the 45th US President’s first 100 days in office. A panel of academics and journalists will discuss the new administration’s priorities and the international implications of the current US political landscape. Charlie Beckett (@CharlieBeckett) is Director of POLIS and Professor in the Department of Media & Communications at LSE. Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) is Chief Foreign Affairs columnist for the Financial Times. Leslie Vinjamuri (@londonvinjamuri) is Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice and Associate Professor in I...
2017-04-261h 28Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFrom Obama to Trump: what's next for US foreign policy? [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Charles Kupchan | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor quality audio in the Q and A. From 2014-2017 Professor Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security in the Obama White House. Here he explores how America’s international priorities and policies will be affected by the new administration. Charles Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is also Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during th...
2017-03-071h 32
About LSELSE 2017Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix, Dr Paul Stock, Professor Peter Trubowitz, Baroness Amos, Professor Fawaz Gerges, Professor Michael Jacobs, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Professor Robyn Eckersley, President Juan Manuel Santos | LSE was founded with the aim of understanding the causes of things and for the betterment of society. This ideal is still at the heart of LSE and we know whatever new challenges 2017 brings, our students will be prepared for bright futures in world-changing roles.
2017-01-0903 minPod AcademyThis is the second in our series on the 2016 US Presidential election, in which Alex Burd talks to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. [ The first podcast, on Donald Trump can be found here.]
With the Democrat and Republican conventions now complete and the candidates confirmed, attention turns to the general election. Donald Trump, the self-appointed outsider, faces Hilary Clinton, the first female Presidential nominee in the history of the two m...
2016-08-0415 minAlex Burd Archives - Pod AcademyThis is the second in our series on the 2016 US Presidential election, in which Alex Burd talks to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. [ The first podcast, on Donald Trump can be found here.]
With the Democrat and Republican conventions now complete and the candidates confirmed, attention turns to the general election. Donald Trump, the self-appointed outsider, faces Hilary Clinton, the first female Presidential nominee in the history of the two m...
2016-08-0400 minHumanities and Social Sciences – Pod AcademyThis is the second in our series on the 2016 US Presidential election, in which Alex Burd talks to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. [ The first podcast, on Donald Trump can be found here.]
With the Democrat and Republican conventions now complete and the candidates confirmed, attention turns to the general election. Donald Trump, the self-appointed outsider, faces Hilary Clinton, the first female Presidential nominee in the history of the two m...
2016-08-0415 minAlex Burd Archives - Pod AcademyThe rise and rise of Donald Trump“The American dream is dead. I will bring it back and we will make America great again…..”
In nine months Donald Trump has stunned the political establishment, brushing aside other contenders to become the Republican nominee in the race for the White House. How has the man made famous for saying ‘You’re fired’ come so close to landing the biggest job in the western world?
To find out, Alex Burd went to talk to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Asso...
2016-07-1800 minHumanities and Social Sciences – Pod AcademyThe rise and rise of Donald Trump“The American dream is dead. I will bring it back and we will make America great again…..”
In nine months Donald Trump has stunned the political establishment, brushing aside other contenders to become the Republican nominee in the race for the White House. How has the man made famous for saying ‘You’re fired’ come so close to landing the biggest job in the western world?
To find out, Alex Burd went to talk to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Asso...
2016-07-1820 minPod AcademyThe rise and rise of Donald Trump“The American dream is dead. I will bring it back and we will make America great again…..”
In nine months Donald Trump has stunned the political establishment, brushing aside other contenders to become the Republican nominee in the race for the White House. How has the man made famous for saying ‘You’re fired’ come so close to landing the biggest job in the western world?
To find out, Alex Burd went to talk to Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Asso...
2016-07-1820 minSummer 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoRace, Reform and the New Retrenchment: the perils of post-racialism after ObamaContributor(s): Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw | Heightening tensions in the US over police killings of black people have undermined confidence that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era on race relations in the US. The more lasting legacy may be the one championed by late Justice Scalia whose legal philosophy currently underwrites the central tensions in equality law in the United States. Through a Critical Race Theory prism, Professor Crenshaw will discuss Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name as challenges to contemporary jurisprudence on race, and assess the new openings presented by current events. Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) is Di...
2016-05-111h 29Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfRace, Reform and the New Retrenchment: the perils of post-racialism after ObamaContributor(s): Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw | Heightening tensions in the US over police killings of black people have undermined confidence that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era on race relations in the US. The more lasting legacy may be the one championed by late Justice Scalia whose legal philosophy currently underwrites the central tensions in equality law in the United States. Through a Critical Race Theory prism, Professor Crenshaw will discuss Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name as challenges to contemporary jurisprudence on race, and assess the new openings presented by current events. Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) is Di...
2016-05-111h 29Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe Evening After the Night Before: analysing Super TuesdayContributor(s): Kate Andrews, Steve Erlanger, Gideon Rachman, Stephanie Rickard, Peter Trubowitz | On the 1st of March millions of American voters in 12 states will go to the polls in the 2016 US presidential election's 'Super Tuesday’ primary. The race so far has been unlike any in recent memory with the rise of outsider candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties which has led to the most open-ended election in decades. Super Tuesday will make the direction of the race much clearer on both sides, paving the way for the party conventions in the early summer. Join us for a lively ev...
2016-03-021h 27Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Evening After the Night Before: analysing Super TuesdayContributor(s): Kate Andrews, Steve Erlanger, Gideon Rachman, Stephanie Rickard, Peter Trubowitz | On the 1st of March millions of American voters in 12 states will go to the polls in the 2016 US presidential election's 'Super Tuesday’ primary. The race so far has been unlike any in recent memory with the rise of outsider candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties which has led to the most open-ended election in decades. Super Tuesday will make the direction of the race much clearer on both sides, paving the way for the party conventions in the early summer. Join us for a lively ev...
2016-03-021h 27Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoWho will be the next US President?Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence Jacobs | The most polarizing and anti-establishment candidates in modern US politics are dominating the battles for nomination as the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in 2016. The long slog to choose each party’s nominees starts with Iowa and New Hampshire in early February, picks up speed with the numerous primaries on March 1 and continues with nearly weekly contests through the first week in June. Who will win the Democratic and Republican nominations and why, and what will this mean for the presidential election which follows? Lawrence R. Jacobs (@larryrjacobs) is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Ch...
2016-02-241h 24Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfWho will be the next US President?Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence Jacobs | The most polarizing and anti-establishment candidates in modern US politics are dominating the battles for nomination as the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in 2016. The long slog to choose each party’s nominees starts with Iowa and New Hampshire in early February, picks up speed with the numerous primaries on March 1 and continues with nearly weekly contests through the first week in June. Who will win the Democratic and Republican nominations and why, and what will this mean for the presidential election which follows? Lawrence R. Jacobs (@larryrjacobs) is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Ch...
2016-02-241h 24Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoLessons for the Euro from America's PastContributor(s): Professor Jeffry Frieden | Drawing on early America’s struggle to develop a single currency, Professor Frieden will discuss the implications for the European Union’s efforts today to provide monetary and financial stability. Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011). Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twen...
2016-01-191h 28Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLessons for the Euro from America's PastContributor(s): Professor Jeffry Frieden | Drawing on early America’s struggle to develop a single currency, Professor Frieden will discuss the implications for the European Union’s efforts today to provide monetary and financial stability. Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011). Frieden is also the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twen...
2016-01-191h 28Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfDoes Europe Have a Future?Contributor(s): Professor Stephen M Walt | Professor Walt will discuss strategic challenges facing the European Union and explore the geopolitical implications of a weaker Europe for the West. Stephen M Walt (@stephenWalt) is Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the LSE. LSE IDEAS (@LSEIDEAS) is a foreign policy think-tank within LSE's Institute for Global Affairs. The US Centre at LSE (@LSE_US) promotes scholarly analysis and critical debate about the United States.
2015-10-011h 21Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoDoes Europe Have a Future?Contributor(s): Professor Stephen M Walt | Professor Walt will discuss strategic challenges facing the European Union and explore the geopolitical implications of a weaker Europe for the West. Stephen M Walt (@stephenWalt) is Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the LSE. LSE IDEAS (@LSEIDEAS) is a foreign policy think-tank within LSE's Institute for Global Affairs. The US Centre at LSE (@LSE_US) promotes scholarly analysis and critical debate about the United States.
2015-10-011h 21Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoIs the American Century Over?Contributor(s): Professor Joseph S Nye | For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Joseph S.Nye, Jr. (@Joe_Nye) is University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University,won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defence for...
2015-06-091h 08Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfIs the American Century Over?Contributor(s): Professor Joseph S Nye | For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Joseph S.Nye, Jr. (@Joe_Nye) is University Distinguished Service Professor, and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University,won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defence for...
2015-06-091h 08Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfAnglo-American Civilisation and its Discontents in World AffairsContributor(s): Professor Peter Katzenstein | Professor Katzenstein will discuss the Anglo-American civilisation, how it compares to the world’s other civilisations, and the possibilities for a more inclusive global civilisation. Peter Katzenstein is the former President of the American Political Science Association and the Walter S Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at LSE. The International Relations Department at LSE (@LSEIRDept) is now in its 87th year, making it one of the oldest as well as largest in the world.
2015-05-061h 34Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoAnglo-American Civilisation and its Discontents in World AffairsContributor(s): Professor Peter Katzenstein | Professor Katzenstein will discuss the Anglo-American civilisation, how it compares to the world’s other civilisations, and the possibilities for a more inclusive global civilisation. Peter Katzenstein is the former President of the American Political Science Association and the Walter S Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at LSE. The International Relations Department at LSE (@LSEIRDept) is now in its 87th year, making it one of the oldest as well as largest in the world.
2015-05-061h 34Autumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoShared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships to homeland securityContributor(s): Alejandro Mayorkas | The Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, will deliver remarks on the close partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States on a variety of Homeland Security issues, including counterterrorism, aviation security, cybersecurity, travel and trade, and countering violent extremism. Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security on December 23, 2013. Since 2009, following his nomination by President Obama and subsequent confirmation, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas served as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency charged with operating the la...
2014-11-051h 02Autumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfShared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships to homeland securityContributor(s): Alejandro Mayorkas | The Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, will deliver remarks on the close partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States on a variety of Homeland Security issues, including counterterrorism, aviation security, cybersecurity, travel and trade, and countering violent extremism. Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security on December 23, 2013. Since 2009, following his nomination by President Obama and subsequent confirmation, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas served as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency charged with operating the la...
2014-11-051h 022014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoShared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships to homeland securityContributor(s): Alejandro Mayorkas | The Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, will deliver remarks on the close partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States on a variety of Homeland Security issues, including counterterrorism, aviation security, cybersecurity, travel and trade, and countering violent extremism. Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security on December 23, 2013. Since 2009, following his nomination by President Obama and subsequent confirmation, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas served as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency charged with operating the la...
2014-11-051h 022014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfShared Responsibility: the importance of international partnerships to homeland securityContributor(s): Alejandro Mayorkas | The Deputy Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, will deliver remarks on the close partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States on a variety of Homeland Security issues, including counterterrorism, aviation security, cybersecurity, travel and trade, and countering violent extremism. Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security on December 23, 2013. Since 2009, following his nomination by President Obama and subsequent confirmation, Deputy Secretary Mayorkas served as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency charged with operating the la...
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