Join us for the annual Robert H Smith Lecture in Democracy which explores democracy in changing times inspired by Benjamin Franklin's legacy as a statesman, political thinker and more.
The United States remains one of the most powerful actors in the international system. But the American nation and its people have never been so divided. How has this come about? What does it mean for the future of the American Republic? And what might it mean for the world?
Meet our chair and speaker
Márcia Balisciano is founding Director of Benjamin Franklin House. She is also founding Chief Sustainability Officer at FTSE 20 global business, RELX. She holds a PhD in Economic History from LSE and serves on the board of the Foundation for the (UN) Global Compact and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens.
Michael Cox is a Founding Director of LSE IDEAS. He was Director of LSE IDEAS between 2008 and 2019. He is author or editor of several books, including a collection of his own essays The Post-Cold War World (2018), a centennial edition of J.M. Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace (2019),and a new edition of E. H. Carr’s 1945 classic Nationalism & After (2021). His most recent book, Agonies of Empire: US Power from Clinton to Biden was published in 2022.
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