Heads up: lecture on America

As part of the LSE’s public lecture series, there is a great even coming up soon on geopolitics and, in particular, the changing role of the USA. Without meaning to prejudice any students university application in the social sciences field, but it would seem to me that participating in events such as these would be the kind of things that would be interpreted as a genuine and active interest in a subject beyond a classroom context. You could say this is purely utilitarian, but, equally, one could consider it as an extra incentive to attend.

Date: Monday 29 June 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Walter Russell Mead
Chair: Professor Chris Brown

The rise of China and the global economic crisis have led many observers to speculate about whether the decline of American power, often predicted in the past, has now finally begun. The picture is more complex; a survey of world conditions suggests that while the American role is changing, the U.S. will continue to be a unique force in the international arena.

Walter Russell Mead is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. A contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times and a senior contributing editor of Worth magazine, he has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Foreign Affairs. He is the award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, and Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition. He is an honours graduate of Groton and Yale and serves as the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy at Yale.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.