The American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association
Postgraduate and Early Career Network Conference
‘Continuity and Change in the Trump Presidency’
British Library Knowledge Centre
4 July 2019
10:30 – 17:45
10:30 – 11:00 – Registration/Coffee/Tea [Dickens]
11:00 – 12:30 – Panel 1: Assessing the Trump Presidency [Eliot]
Chair: Dr Andrew Wroe (University of Kent)
Emma Hall (University of Warwick) – ‘Conditional Exceptionalism: President Trump’s Desire to “Make US Exceptional.”
Tom McMeeking (University of Leeds) – ‘Greenstein, The Presidential Difference and the Trump Presidency.’
Diane Smith (Brunel University, London) – ‘The Lack of Originality in the Trump Presidency.’
Tom Watts (Royal Holloway, University of London) – ‘When Ends Trump Means: Continuity Versus Change in US Counterterrorism Policy.’
12:30 – 13:15 – Lunch [Dickens]
13:15 – 14:45 – Panel 2: Trump and American Foreign Policy [Eliot]
Chair: Darius Wainwright (University of Reading)
Peter Finn (Kingston University) – ‘Foreign Operations, Wrongdoing and the Preservation and Destruction of the Official Foreign Record.’
Matthew Gallagher (University of East Anglia) – ‘Playing for Trumps: The Changing Role and Behaviour of Foreign Policy Advisors Within the Trump Administration.’
Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen (Remote Warfare Programme, Oxford Research Group) – Uneasy Alliances: The Political Consequences of Remote Warfare
Daniel Mobley (University of Edinburgh) – ‘“Not Isolationist, I’m not Isolationist”: Isolationism as a Security Discourse in US Foreign Policy.’
Pedro Ponte e Sousa (New University of Lisbon) – ‘Trump, the United States and Portuguese Foreign Policy: Opportunity or Challenge?’
14:45 – 15:15 – Tea/Coffee [Dickens]
15:15 – 16:45 – Panel 3: American Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective [Eliot]
Chair: Jo Harmon (University College London)
Francesca Akhtar (University College London) – ‘The Impact of the Cold War on the US-Canadian Defence Relationship in the Arctic.’
Adenyi Oso (De Montfort University) – ‘US Democracy Promotion During the Clinton Presidency: A State Goal or Functional Bureaucratic Tension?’
Andrew Payne (University of Oxford) – ‘The Negroponte Rule: The Perils of National Security Negotiations in an Election Year.’
Ben Quail (University of Strathclyde) – ‘Continuity in Presidential Media Relations: Analysing Johnson and Trump.’
16:45 – 17:00 – Comfort Break
17:00 – 17:45 – Collections Session: ‘Researching American Politics at the British Library.’ [Eliot]
Chair: Dr Dafydd Townley (University of Reading)
Jean Petrovic and Dr Philip Abraham (Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library); Darius Wainwright (University of Reading)
17:45 – Close (Wine Reception)
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