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  • LSE: The Ballpark | US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific
    In June 2024, the LSE Phelan US Centre held the conference, US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific. The conference brought together scholars and analysts with a strong record of policy-relevant research on nuclear strategy and expertise in the security dynamics of the Indo-Pacific.
    The conference was convened by Phelan US Centre Affiliates, Rohan Mukherjee and Lauren Sukin, both Assistant Professors of International Relations in the LSE’s International Relations Department.
    In this episode of the Ballpark, we speak to Dr Lauren Sukin about the main themes and takeaways from the conference. We also talk to three of the conference participants, Debak Das (University of Denver), Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M University), and J. Luis Rodriguez (George Mason University), about what they saw as the nuclear security dynamics in their region of focus, and how the US has been responding to these both within that region and across the Indo-Pacific.
    This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson and Anderson Tan.
    27 min
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US Foreign Policy and Power with Professor Jeff Legro
    In May 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Jeff Legro, University Professor at the University of Richmond, and Visiting Professor at the Phelan US Centre for 2023-24. They spoke about the US’ role as a “unipolar” country in the world, conceptions of sovereignty, both in the US and abroad, the potential future of US foreign policy, and the relationship between nuclear weapons and globalization.
    They also discussed Professor Legro’s work with the Phelan US Centre’s Undergraduate Research Assistantship programme and students Ayush Das and Evelyne Ong.
    This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson and Anderson Tan.
    Links mentioned in this episode
    Phelan US Centre Undergraduate Research Assistantship programme - https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/for-students/us-centre-undergraduate-research-assistantships-current
    Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell University Press, 2016) - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9781501707322/html?lang=en
    Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (Harvard University Press, 2016) - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674660212
    48 min
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The media, truth, and reality with Brooke Gladstone
    In 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Brooke Gladstone, host and Managing Editor of WNYC’s On the Media about the US’ changing media landscape, the meaning of truth and facts in the age of Donald Trump, and how we can teach the next generation to be better media consumers.
    This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson and Anderson Tan.
    47 min
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Bomb with Fred Kaplan
    In May 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to author and journalist for Slate magazine and Phelan US Centre Visiting Senior Fellow, Fred Kaplan about his 2020 book, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War and the changing attitudes of US politicians and policymakers to nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
    This Extra Inning was produced by Chris Gilson and Anderson Tan.
    Listen to the podcast of the LSE Event ‘Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?’ on LSE Player: https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=c1fc651a-d27e-46e2-8ae0-2078d24736e0
    Fred Kaplan’s ‘War Stories’ column at Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/war-stories
    44 min
  • LSE Ballpark | Will the US remain the world’s superpower?
    A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it has been undisputedly the most powerful nation on earth. But is it a fading force? The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?
    In this episode of LSE iQ, a collaboration with the LSE Phelan US Centre's podcast, The Ballpark, Sue Windebank and Chris Gilson speak to LSE’s Elizabeth Ingleson and John Van Reenen and Ashley Tellis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
    Contributors
    Elizabeth Ingleson
    John Van Reenen
    Ashley Tellis
    Research
    Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth Ingleson
    The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020.
    Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis
    More Information
    LSE Phelan United States Centre: https://www.lse.ac.uk/United-States
    Listen to The Ballpark podcast: https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/the-ballpark/Podcasts; LSE Player, Spotify; Soundcloud
    Related interviews on The Ballpark with guests on this episode
    Dr Ashley Tellis - The Future of US-China Competition
    Dr Elizabeth Ingleson - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
    36 min
  • Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade | LSE US Centre Event
    How did China—the world’s largest communist nation—converge with global capitalism? And when did this occur? In this event, held on 7 May 2024, Dr Elizabeth Ingleson of the LSE Department of International History and Phelan US Centre Affiliate argued that this convergence began in the early 1970s, when the United States and China re-opened trade and the interests of US capitalists and the Chinese state gradually aligned: at the expense of US labor and aided by US diplomats.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Will the US remain the world's superpower?
    A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it has been undisputedly the most powerful nation on earth. But is it a fading force? The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?
    In this episode of LSE iQ, a collaboration with the LSE Phelan US Centre's podcast, The Ballpark, Sue Windebank and Chris Gilson speak to LSE’s Elizabeth Ingleson and John Van Reenen and Ashley Tellis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
    Contributors
    Elizabeth Ingleson
    John Van Reenen
    Ashley Tellis
    Research
    Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth Ingleson
    The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020.
    Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis
    LSE Phelan United States Centre: https://www.lse.ac.uk/United-States
    Listen to The Ballpark podcast: https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/the-ballpark/Podcasts; LSE Player, Spotify; Soundcloud
    Related interviews on The Ballpark with guests on this episode
    Dr Ashley Tellis - The Future of US-China Competition
    Dr Elizabeth Ingleson - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
    LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
    36 min

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