How much does the US president matter to the rest of the world? In this briefing, Professor Hanhimäki will examine the impact of the US election on American foreign policy in the coming years. Will there be dramatic changes or will continuity prevail?

Faculty member since 2000, Professor Hanhimäki was previously a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (Washington, D.C.) and is the recipient of the 2002 Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was elected Finland Distinguished Professor in 2006. His main research interests include American foreign policy, transatlantic relations and the international history of the Cold War. His latest book is Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era.

Moderated by Christine Lutringer, Senior Researcher and Executive Director of the
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy