S09E09: Stephen Walt on the Return of Trump (Part 2)

This episode explores what a sec­ond Trump pres­i­den­cy could mean for Amer­i­can domes­tic pol­i­cy and pol­i­tics, and for the rest of the world. Is Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy at seri­ous risk of being dis­man­tled? And what will be the impact of Trump’s agen­da on glob­al efforts to reverse cli­mate change and transat­lantic rela­tions with the Euro­pean Union? Lis­ten to hear what’s in store for Amer­i­ca and the world.

Guest fea­tured on this episode:

Stephen Walt has been a fel­low of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­ences for almost two decades. He received the Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies Asso­ci­a­tion’s Dis­tin­guished Schol­ar Award in 2014, and among his oth­er affil­i­a­tions, such as the Quin­cy Insti­tute for Respon­si­ble State­craft, the Carnegie Endow­ment for Peace, the Brook­ings Insti­tu­tion, and Walt is cur­rent­ly in Vien­na as a spe­cial guest at the Insti­tute of Human Sciences.

He has been a con­tribut­ing edi­tor at For­eign Pol­i­cy mag­a­zine, co-chair of the edi­to­r­i­al board of the jour­nal Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty and has also co-edit­ed the Cor­nell Stud­ies in Secu­ri­ty Affairs book series. A promi­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the real­ist school and in inter­na­tion­al rela­tions, Stephen Walt authored sev­er­al high­ly acclaimed books, among them The Ori­gins of Alliances, Tam­ing of Amer­i­can Pow­er: The Glob­al Response to U.S. Pri­ma­cy, The Hell of Good Inten­tions: Amer­i­ca’s For­eign Pol­i­cy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Pri­ma­cy, and coau­thored with John Mearsheimer The Israel Lob­by and U.S. For­eign Policy.

About

Shalini Randeria

Shalini Randeria is Rector and President of the Central European University (Vienna/Budapest). Before, she was Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and Rector of the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna from 2014 to 2021. She has published widely on the anthropology of globalisation, law, the state and social movements. Her empirical research on India also addresses issues of post-coloniality and multiple modernities.