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The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark l...
The last decade has seen a period of prolonged competition between the US and China with China continuing to grow economically and pursue te...
Donald Trump’s first presidential term meant that many allies, including in the EU and Europe, were forced to consider the possibility that...
To talk about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, in February 2026 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Walter Russell Mead
From the rise of Donald Trump in the US, Brexit in the United Kingdom and Victor Orban in Hungary and National Rally in France, anti-system...
From China’s growing influence in Europe to deepening Russia–China cooperation and the ripple effects of Trump’s America First policies, Eur...
Understanding China’s role in the world has never been more important — or more complex. China projects itself variously as a moral global a...
America is undergoing profound change. Demographic transformation, shifting global power dynamics, and a foreign policy establishment in tra...
To talk about the current state of US-China relations, in October 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trust...
In 2025, the Phelan US Centre ran an essay competition for master’s students with a prompt about AI. In this episode we spoke to the author...
The last 40 years have seen a sharp decline in America’s manufacturing industries with growing joblessness in previously prosperous industri...
This year LSE is celebrating its 130th anniversary, and how it has driven change across the world. Much of LSE’s history is linked to the Un...
Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has renewed his “America First” agenda by pursing a transactional approach...
In the last decade or so, the the public have become aware of “deepfakes”, computer or AI generated fake images. The spread of deepfakes rai...
The last three decades have seen China’s economic rise. Alongside this, China has become much more influential on the global stage, emerging...
In August 2025, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held its 25th annual summit in Tianjin, China. The absence of the United States in thi...
To talk about social media and politics, and how AI can help spread – or tackle – disinformation, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Josephine...
Ahead of our 10 year anniversary in 2026, and after more than 140 episodes speaking to academic experts on topics from across the social sci...
AI is now increasingly playing a role in many parts of our lives, and the workplace is no exception. AI is now being used by employers to he...
AI has legal consequences. Who is responsible when AI makes a mistake which causes harm or financial loss? What role does government regulat...
With the growth of the capability of artificial intelligence (AI), there is growing concern that this technology could make millions of jobs...
In an article in the July/August edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, “Might Unmakes Right:
In an article in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, “Beware the Europe You Wish For, The Downsides and Dangers of Allied Independence”,
In July 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Kimberley S. Johnson about the recent history of the US administrative state and racial...
In response to what the US sees as potential growing threats from China and North Korea, nuclear weapons are becoming a more and more import...
In January 2025, the release of a new model and chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepSeek, sent shockwaves through t...
On the May 7th, 2025, India launched missile strikes on Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir...
The US-led international order is under strain from without and within. Authoritarian powers such as Russia and China are challenging the co...
Many institutions are now using artificial intelligence (AI) models as tools to think about solutions to a variety of challenges, from the e...
The Phelan US Centre spoke to Michael Latner, Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University and Director of Rese...
In March 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to John Minnich, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE about why...
In February 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Mukulika Banerjee, Professor in LSE’s Department of Anthropology.
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has brought the spectre of potential nuclear conflict back into the public consciousness for the first time...
Donald Trump’s links to the right, including the far right and the alt-right date back to least to his 2016 presidential campaign and contin...
President Trump has made his feelings about US competition with China plain; one of the early acts of his second presidential term has been...
In the past decade, many commentators have increasingly spoken of growing competition between the United States and China in areas like trad...
In December 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke Dr Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor in the Department of International Economics, Government...
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth Colle...
In November 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the Natio...
In October 2024 the LSE Phelan US Centre spoke to Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the Univer...
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law Sch...
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at LSE, about his new book, “What Really We...
In September 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Nick Lewis, a PhD student in LSE’s Department of Government and a recipient of a Phelan US C...
In September 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Peter Harris, Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University about hi...
In August 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Evelyne Ong, an undergraduate research assistant with the Phelan US Centre for the 2023-24 acad...
In 2024, the Phelan US Centre ran an essay competition for master’s students with the prompt, ““How should the United States work to shape t...
In July 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Nathan Lane, Associate Professor in Economics at Oxford University, about industrial policy in th...
In 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Patriann Smith, professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida.
In June 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences and Vice Dean for...
In May 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Maxwell Stearns, the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Fran...
In June 2024, the LSE Phelan US Centre held the conference, US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific.