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Foreign policy and the US presidential election: Why it matters

When

12.00pm–1.30pm

11 May 2012

Many pundits contend that with the economy such an important issue in the US presidential election, foreign policy does not matter. It actually does, politically as well as for the US role in the world. In this seminar, Bruce Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, examined the dynamics of the campaign thus far and the likely terms of foreign policy debate as we move towards election day.

Featuring

  • Professor Bruce Jentleson
    Professor of Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

    Bruce W. Jentleson visited the US Studies Centre in 2012. Jentleson is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he previously served as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute (now Sanford School) of Public Policy. He is a leading scholar of American foreign policy and has served in a number of US policy and political positions. In 2015-16 he was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.