America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite
Hosted by the Phelan US Centre
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 6.30pm - 8pm
America is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the country’s largest demographic group, will be roughly equal in numbers to Hispanic, African, and Asian Americans.
Join us as Anne-Marie Slaughter considers the possibilities and challenges this shift poses for the Atlantic Hemisphere and the future of transatlantic relations.
Meet our speaker and chair
Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) is a global leader, scholar and public commentator. She is CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America in a period of rapid global change. She previously served as a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School; dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and as the first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State.
Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs
This event is part of the America's Changing Role in the World lecture series organised by the Phelan United States Centre, which is taking place over the 2025-26 academic year. The next lecture in the series will be on 26 November on America first and the future of Eurasian geopolitics.
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