The Ballpark

Mar 09 2025 127 ep. 40 mins 128
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The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more closely into what's going on behind the headlines. You can also subscribe on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ballpark-podcast/id1092180252 or add this RSS feed to your podcast app http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/webFeeds/theBallpark_iTunesStore.xml or download from the LSE website http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/theballpark/Home.aspx

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LSE: The Ballpark | Donald Trump and the far-right with Dr Rachel Blum

Mar 09 2025 37 mins  
Donald Trump’s links to the right, including the far right and the alt-right date back to least to his 2016 presidential campaign and continued through his first term and then into his 2024 election campaign where Trump faced accusations of being an authoritarian populist. To discuss Donald Trump’s links to the far right, in February 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Rach

LSE: The Ballpark | US-China relations under the new Trump administration with Professor Minxin Pei

Feb 23 2025 33 mins  
President Trump has made his feelings about US competition with China plain; one of the early acts of his second presidential term has been to place tariffs on Chinese imports. China has since responded with its own tariffs on certain US goods and restrictions on the import of important minerals. To talk about US-China relations with the return of Donald Trump, in February 2025 th

LSE: The Ballpark | The international order and US-China competition with Professor Shiping Tang

Feb 09 2025 43 mins  
In the past decade, many commentators have increasingly spoken of growing competition between the United States and China in areas like trade, industrial policy, but also on foreign policy and global influence more generally. To discuss these issues and how the social sciences can learn from evolutionary thinking, in January 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Shiping Tang, of Fud

LSE: The Ballpark | The Evolution of American Chip Controls on China with Dr Douglas Fuller

Jan 05 2025 32 mins  
In December 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke Dr Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor in the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at Copenhagen Business School. They spoke about how the Chinese high-tech and semiconductor chip industry has evolved and the recent history and effectiveness of US chip controls towards China. They also discuss how the US has

LSE: The Ballpark | China and technology export controls with Michael Mastanduno and Jennifer Lind

Dec 08 2024 59 mins  
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, and Dr Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. They spoke about US export controls against China and about their history and effectiveness This episode was produced by Chris Gilson, Luke Digweed and Anders

LSE: The Ballpark | America and the Asian 21st Century with Professor Kishore Mahbubani

Nov 24 2024 37 mins  
In November 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. From 1971 until 2004 he was a diplomat with the Singapore Foreign Service. He served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN from 1984-1989 and then from 1998 to 2004 and as President of the UN Security Council in Jan

LSE: The Ballpark | China’s evolving approach to economic security with Professor Yeling Tan

Nov 10 2024 38 mins  
In October 2024 the LSE Phelan US Centre spoke to Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. They spoke about how China understands economic security and its evolving economic strategy, and how public attitudes in China towards international trade influence the country’s trade policy. This episode was produced by Chr

LSE: The Ballpark | AI and elections with Professor Lawrence Lessig

Oct 28 2024 46 mins  
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the internet era”, Professor Lessig now focuses on “institutional corruption”, especially as that affects democracy. He is the author of many books,

LSE: The Ballpark | The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Prof. Fawaz Gerges

Oct 18 2024 38 mins  
In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. They spoke about his new book, “What Really Went Wrong: The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East”. We also discussed the history of US

LSE: The Ballpark | The social media spiral of silence with Nick Lewis

Oct 14 2024 31 mins  
In September 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Nick Lewis, a PhD student in LSE’s Department of Government and a recipient of a Phelan US Centre PhD Summer Research Grant in 2022. Nick’s research looks at how social media creates bias in democratic deliberation. They spoke about how Facebook discourages people from taking part in discussions via what’s called the “spiral