Is There a Trump Doctrine? Making Sense of US Foreign and Security Policy since Trump’s Return to the White House

Wednesday 19 November 2025
6.30pm-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building
In-person and online public event

In January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House. The ensuing months have been a dizzying blur for US foreign and security policy. Unprecedented US import tariffs have been threatened, reversed, and imposed. Allies have been lectured and harangued, while adversaries have been warmly welcomed. Amidst the turmoil of the Trump administration, is there an emerging logic to US foreign and security policy? Is a Trump doctrine taking shape?

Meet our speakers and chair

Ronald Krebs is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His primary focus is international conflict and security. He is author of the award-winning Narrative and the Making of US National Security, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy.

Boram Lee is Assistant Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her broad research is on how value-based issues affect economic globalisation. 

Katharine Millar is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her broad research interests lie in examining the gendered cultural narratives underlying political violence and the modern collective use of force. 

Luca Tardelli is Associate Professor (Education) in International Relations. His research focuses on international security, military intervention, and US foreign policy. 

Rohan Mukherjee is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS in the Department of International Relations at LSE. His research focuses on rising powers and how they navigate the power and status hierarchies of international order. 

This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

In-person: You can now request one ticket via the 'Attend in Person' button on the event page. The ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

Online: Registration is now open. You can register on LSE Live via the 'Attend online' button on the event page.

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Lines Drawn by Empire: displacement, belonging, and borders

Thursday 20 November 2025
6.30pm - 8pm
In-person public event (Wolfson Theatre, CKK Building, LSE)

This public event explores how the afterlives of empire continue to shape migration regimes, bordering practices, and ideas of national belonging. It brings together educators, activists, and organisers to examine how colonial logics underpin contemporary systems of mobility control, and how these are resisted in lived experience and political advocacy. 

Meet our speakers

Dr Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, as well as Co-Director of the Migration Research Group.

Zrinka Bralo is Chief Executive of Migrants Organise – a community organising platform for migrants and refugees acting for justice. 

Boucka Koffi is the Chair of the Voice of the Voiceless Immigration Detainees in Yorkshire (VVIDY).

Chair

Asha Herten-Crabb is IRD Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries email ir.events@lse.ac.uk.

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French and British perspectives on Russia's war in Ukraine and the future of the European security order

Thursday 27 November 2025
6.30pm - 8pm
In-person public event (Malaysia Auditorium, CBG)

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE IDEAS

Russia's aggression of Ukraine has fractured the European security order and determined a marked shift in the security and defence agendas of key European countries, NATO and the EU. 

This panel will discuss how France and the UK responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and how they framed, and addressed, the implications of the war in Ukraine for European security. It will also look at areas of convergence and divergence between London and Paris and focus on their priorities at the current critical juncture, with a view to achieving a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.

Meet our speakers

Marion Messmer is a Senior Research Fellow in the International Security Programme at Chatham House. 

Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Institut Montaigne. 

Peter Watkins (CB, CBE) is a Senior Visiting Fellow with LSE IDEAS, a Visiting Professor with King's College London, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and a former senior official with the UK Ministry of Defence.

Richard G Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative, and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Chair

Teona Giuashvili is the DINAM Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries email ir.events@lse.ac.uk.

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