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.
