International Perspectives on the 2024 US Elections: the view from Europe

2024 has been dubbed the ‘year of elections’, with nearly 49% of the world’s population heading to the polls in this calendar year. Arguably, the November Presidential Elections in the United States will receive particular attention, not only domestically but also across all regions of the world. This first event in a series will pay close attention to European perspectives on the stakes of the US elections, as well as what it might mean for Transatlantic Relations.

Join a conversation with the School of International Service's international partners in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Italy, with SIS Professor Garret Martin moderating the discussion.

This event is virtual. Please join the webinar through this link.

https://american.zoom.us/j/96684199301

Daniele Fiorentino is the Director of the Department of Political Science at the University Roma Tre. He is a Full professor of History and institutions of the United States of America, as well as the Director of Cispea (Interuniversity Center for Euro-American History and Politics), and the Vice-president of the Italian Society of International History. Between 1995 and 2006, he was director of the Center for American Studies in Rome, on whose board of directors he currently sits. He has devoted much of his research to the history of American Indians and US policy in the American West.

Emma Hall has just completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Her PhD thesis is a critical discourse analysis of the role of state-level history and civics education in reproducing a discourse of American exceptionalism in US national identity. Her wider research looks at the role of American exceptionalism in domestic and foreign policy creation and presidential rhetoric. Emma is also the Postgraduate Representative for the British Association for American Studies.

Jack Holland is Professor of Global Security Challenges at the University of Leeds, where he is Editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on the politics, security and foreign policy of the US, UK and Australia (i.e. the Anglosphere, now AUKUS). He has published six books, including three single-authored monographs (Selling War and Peace: Syria and the Anglosphere (with Cambridge University Press), Fictional Television and American Politics, from 9/11 to Donald Trump and The Obama Doctrine Legacy and Continuity in US Foreign Policy), as well as 30+ articles in journals such as European Journal of International Relations and International Studies Quarterly.

Shelli Israelsen is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University. Shelli's research focuses on women and conflict processes, insurgent-civilian relations, and post-conflict development. Specifically, she researches the ways conflict affects and is affected by women, and the role of women’s organizations in conflict and peace-building processes. Shelli has published research on insurgent recruitment strategies, interstate strategic rivalries and the effect of conflict on women’s political participation. Her current research project examines the relationship between ideology/repression and gendered conflict alliances. Shelli received her Ph.D. (2018) from Indiana University – Bloomington, USA.

Garret J. Martin (moderator) is a Senior Professorial Lecturer, and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, in American University’s School of International Service. He has written widely on transatlantic relations and Europe, both in the field of history and contemporary affairs, and focuses in particular on security, US foreign policy, NATO, European politics, European foreign policy and defense, Europe, the European Union, France and the UK. He is a frequent media commentator, providing analysis and interviews, among others, to NPR, the BBC, CNN, Voice of America, USA Today, WUSA, ABC News Australia and France 24.