2026-02-19
1 小时 32 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Good evening.
Great to have everybody here.
My name's Peter Trubelwitz.
I'm a professor in the International Relations Department.
I'm the director of the Fallon United States Center, which is hosting this evening's event.
Tonight's lecture is the fourth in our year-long series entitled America's Changing Role in the World.
And the series is basically premised on the idea that the United States is having something of a rethink about its foreign policy purposes,
its priorities, which arguably began before Donald Trump's presidency.
But in many ways, of course, has accelerated on his watch, especially in Trump 2.0.
We very much wanted, as part of this series,
to bring speakers in who have views, different views, on the Trump administration,
what it's trying to accomplish, what it will mean for the United States,
and given America's outsized power, what it will mean for the rest of the world.
And I'm very pleased to welcome tonight's speaker, Walter Russell Mead,
to give us his take on the direction of travel in, as he puts it, the age of Trump.
Walter is the Ravenel B.
Curry Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute.
He's the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft.