2026-05-07
1 小时 27 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.
Sorry for the delay.
Great to see everybody here tonight.
My name is Peter Trubowitz.
I'm a professor in the International Relations Department and the director of the Fallon United States Center,
which is hosting this evening's lecture.
So tonight's lecture is the seventh and concluding lecture in our year-long series,
America's Changing Role in the World.
Don't worry, we'll be back next year because that's one thing I'm going to go out on a limb here.
America's role in the world will not be settled by next year.
Though it's possible that tonight's speaker will try to settle it here and now.
Anyway, for those of you who have joined us,
In previous events, you know that the series is premised on the idea that America is in the throes of a rethink
about its foreign policy purposes and its priorities, a process that began before Donald Trump took office,
but has accelerated on his watch, and often in surprising and unpredictable ways.
We very much wanted to bring speakers to the school who had a view on what the Trump administration
was about or how to think about the Trump administration and its foreign policy,
what it might mean for America's place in the world going forward,
and given America's outsized power, what it might mean for the world itself.