Leadership or drift: what's next for US foreign policy?

Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) is Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, based in Berlin after six years in Brussels, from August 2017. He was London bureau chief of The New York Times for four years, after five years as bureau chief in Paris and before that, four years as bureau chief in Jerusalem. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and another for Explanatory Reporting in 2002 for a series on Al Qaeda. In 2005, he was awarded the 2005 Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle East journalism, and in 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. 

Elizabeth Ingleson (@lizingleson) is Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE, and specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (2024).

Anand Menon (@anandMenon1) is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London. He also directs the UK in a Changing Europe project. His areas of research interest include the policies and institutions of the European Union, European security, and British politics. He contributes regularly to both print and broadcast media. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the European Union, and co-author of Brexit and British Politics. 

Leslie Vinjamuri (@londonvinjamuri) is Director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House and Professor of International Relations at SOAS University of London. She leads the Institute’s research on the US and International Order. Her recent publications include Why Multilateralism Still Matters and Building Global Prosperity: Proposals for Sustainable Growth. Leslie is an alumnus of LSE.

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.