Professor Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science – LSE) will deliver the lecture on “Trump, Trumpism and the World” on Saturday February 14th, 2026 from 9:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. Professor Michael Cox is a Founding Director of LSE IDEAS (LSE’s foreign Policy Think Tank). He was Director of LSE IDEAS (2008-2019). In a 2018 international survey, LSE IDEAS ranked number one university affiliated Think Tanks in the world. Michael Cox is Emeritus professor of International Relations at LSE and guest professor at CERIS, since the early nineties. He has also held several senior professional positions in the field of international relations including chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), member of the Executive Committee of the British International Studies Association and of The Irish National Committee for the Study of International Affairs. Since joining the LSE he has also acted as Academic Director of both the LSE-PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School. In 2011, he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy designed to teach senior foreign policy practitioners. He also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and has been Editor of several leading journals in IR, including The Review of International Studies, International Relations, Cold War History, and International Politics. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over twenty books including US Foreign policy and democracy promotion: Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden (2022). [read more]