Is ‘America back’ internationally? Has President Biden made good on his promise to put ‘America First’ in the rear view mirror?

Leading foreign policy experts size up the Biden administration’s foreign policy and what we might expect from the administration going forward.

Meet our speakers and chair

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (@Cluverc) is Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and an alumna of LSE. Clüver Ashbrook has been executive director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the past ten years. 

Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the National Security Council in the Obama and Clinton administrations. His latest book is “Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World” (2020).

Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) is Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator at the Financial Times.

Leslie Vinjamuri (@londonvinjamuri) is a Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London and an alumna of LSE. Leslie is Director of the US & the Americas Programme and Dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs at Chatham House. She is co-editor (with Charles A. Kupchan) and contributing author to Anchoring the World: International Order in the Twenty-First Century and Human Rights Futures. 

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

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