The Henry Jackson Society is excited to host an expert panel to engage in a real time conversation following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Our speakers will be discussing what Trump’s return to office means for the US, its allies and the rest of the world. To save the date and register, please click the link at the bottom of the page.

Joining us will be:

Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including How America Lost Its Mind, which looks at the problem of misinformation; Out of Order, which examined the media’s political role and received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication; and The Unseeing Eye, which looked at television’s impact on politics and was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the leading books on public opinion of the past half-century. 

Peter Trubowitz

Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Centre at the London School of Economics and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He writes and comments frequently on international affairs and American foreign policy. His writings include Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture (Oxford 2023), Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft (Princeton 2011) and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in US Foreign Policy (Chicago 1998), as well as articles in scholarly journals and popular magazines. Before joining LSE, he was Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.  He has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton, Universidad de Chile, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, Tsinghua University, and the Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he was the J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy.

Dr Nile Gardiner

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Dr Nile Gardiner is Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Before joining Heritage, Dr. Gardiner served as an aide to Lady Thatcher in her private office in London, assisting her with her final book, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World and advising her on a number of international policy issues. Dr. Gardiner is a prominent expert on US-British relations, US and British foreign policy, and the transatlantic alliance, and received his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in History from Yale University, and B.A. and M.A. in Modern History from Oxford University. He has testified several times before the United States Congress on foreign policy issues, and served as a foreign policy advisor to three US presidential candidates. Nile Gardiner has provided analysis of global events for US and international television networks including Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business Network, BBC, GB News and Sky News. He is a regular contributor to The London Telegraph and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The London Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, USA Today, The New York Times Room for Debate, The Washington Times, National Review and The Boston Globe. 

Dr Helena Ivanov

Dr Helena Ivanov is an associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. She recently completed a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the relationship between propaganda and violence against civilians. In her thesis, Helena examined the role propaganda played during the Yugoslav Wars and produced a model for studying propaganda which details the key phases, functions, discourses, and techniques of propaganda (the model itself is applicable to other contexts). Additionally, Helena also served as a Manager at the Centre for International Studies at the LSE.

Prior to her PhD, Helena completed an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and holds a BA in Politics from the University of Belgrade.

A recording of this event can be viewed on HJS’s Youtube Channel.