America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Good evening.

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  I want to welcome everyone to LSE for this evening's lecture.

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  My name is Peter Tribowitz.

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  I'm a professor in the Department of International Relations and director of the Fallen United States Center,

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  which is hosting tonight's event.

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  So tonight's lecture is the second in a year-long series entitled America's Changing Role in the World.

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  The series is premised on the idea that America is having something of a rethink.

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  about its foreign policy purposes and priorities, the outcome of which is very uncertain.

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  And to help us get some perspective on this development or this rethink or the process,

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  We've invited a wide range of foreign policy experts from the United States and from outside the U.S.

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  to join the discussion, and I'm very pleased tonight to welcome back to LSE Ann Marie Slaughter,

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  the CEO of New America and University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

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  Emery's accomplishments and honors are too long to run through here this evening.

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  For me,

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  what stands out is a long and very deep commitment to public engagement and service as a scholar and former dean of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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  to her role as Director of Policy Planning in the State Department during the Obama years,

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  and to her leadership at New America maybe now a dozen years,

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  a leading think tank in Washington, D.C.

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