America’s Changing Role in the World lecture series
As the United States marks its 250th year, in 2025/26 the Phelan US Centre’s America’s Changing Role in the World lecture series convenes academic experts from the US and abroad to discuss America’s changing global role.
This lecture series marks the United States’ semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Donald Trump and the unmaking of Europe
12 March 2026
American foreign policy in the age of Trump
19 February 2026
America first and the future of Eurasian geopolitics
26 November 2025
America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite
12 November 2025
The promise and peril of Trump's America first
8 October 2025
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