2026-04-02
1 小时 25 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 everyone.
It's great to have all of you here for this evening's event on the last day of term.
With a long Easter weekend ahead, I'm delighted to see such a turnout.
So my name is Peter Trubowitz.
I'm a professor in international relations here and the director of the Fallen United States Center at LSE,
which is hosting tonight's discussion about the American era.
So tonight's roundtable is the sixth public event.
In our year-long lecture series, America's Changing Role in the World.
The series is premised on the idea that America is in the throes of redefining its international purposes and priorities
that arguably began before Donald Trump's presidency,
but has accelerated on his watch, often, as the current war in Iran suggests, in unpredictable ways.
So tonight we're going to do something a little bit different.
In thinking about America's unsettled moment,
we want to take a look back at how we got here as well as speculating about what direction the country
might be headed on the eve of its semi-quincentennial.
This is the topic of a newly released edited volume called Rethinking the 1990s that the U.S. Center,
in collaboration with the Reimagining World Order Project at Princeton University that John Eikenberry heads up,
put together.