Spring Lecture: Robert J. Lieber, Is the US Still Indispensable?

Robert J. Lieber, Is the US Still Indispensable? 
May 9
1:30 PM
In-Person

Robert J. Lieber is Professor Emeritus of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University where he previously served as Chair of the Government Department and Interim Chair of Psychology. He is author or editor of 18 books on international relations and US foreign policy and has been an advisor to presidential campaigns, to the State Department, and to the drafters of US National Intelligence Estimates. His latest book is Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World, published in 2022 by Yale University Press. His other recent books include Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline (Cambridge, 2012). He also taught at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of California-Davis, and has been Visiting Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, the Brookings Institution, and Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and earned his PhD at Harvard. In addition, he has been a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations. He is an avid tennis player, and among his other credits is a walk-on part in the Alfred Hitchcock film classic, North by Northwest.

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. in room A on the first floor, except for the April 25 lecture, which will be in room 402 on the fourth floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.