What does the election mean for America's future global direction? Does it involve a defining choice between global engagement under a Democrat president or isolation under a Republican one? Or are circumstances pushing the US in a certain general foreign policy direction, whoever wins the keys to the White House? What might the outcome of the presidential election mean for the most violent and dangerous of today's conflicts, in Ukraine and the Middle East? How firm is the US commitment to its European and Asian allies?

Photo: Professor Lisa Dellmuth

In collaboration with the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University, and the Stockholm Center on Global Governance, also at Stockholm University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs held a panel conversation on these crucial topics on May 29th. Main speaker was Stephen G. Brooks, professor of government at Dartmouth College US and from us at the SCGG Professor Lisa Dellmuth provided commentary on the importance of global cooperation and governance in these perilous times in a joining speech. Other discussants were Åsa Malmström Rognes, head of the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Nicholas Aylott, head of the Europe Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, will chair the conversation.