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 politics. His published work includes Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture (Oxford 2023) with Brian Burgoon, Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft (Princeton) and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in US Foreign Policy (Chicago). Before joining LSE, he was Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, Tsinghua, Universidad de Chile, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, and Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he was the J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy.