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SUMMARY:The foreign policy of Donald Trump in historical perspective
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh
 eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 7 May 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerProfessor Niall Ferguso
 nChairProfessor Peter TrubowitzCommentators around the world draw some sta
 rtling analogies when they seek to assess President Donald Trump\, some ev
 en likening him to a Roman emperor or an inter-war dictator. In this lectu
 re\, Niall Ferguson puts Trump's foreign policy in an Anglo-American histo
 rical perspective.Trump has cited William McKinley as a role-model\, but a
  much closer resemblance is to Richard Nixon. In his policies towards both
  allies and adversaries\, Trump owes a debt to Nixon\, notably to the twin
  "shocks" of 1971 and the triangular diplomacy with Moscow and Beijing. Ho
 wever\, the 2020s differ in many ways from the 1970s. There are clear risk
 s to dusting down Nixon's playbook.Meet our speaker and chairSir Niall Fer
 guson FRSE\, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
 \, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books\, including The Pity 
 of War\, The House of Rothschild\, and Kissinger\, 1923-1968: The Idealist
 \, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an 
 award-winning filmmaker\, too\, having received an international Emmy for 
 his PBS series The Ascent of Money. He is a columnist with the Free Press 
 and a regular CBS News contributor. In addition\, he is the founder and ma
 naging director of Greenmantle\, a New York-based advisory firm\, a co-fou
 nder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá\, and a founding trustee 
 of the new University of Austin.Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor
  of International Relations\, and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE 
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