President Trump’s Foreign Policies

A Global Currents Discussion with:

James M. Lindsay, Ph.D. Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy Council on Foreign Relations

Thursday January 22, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom A
11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland

The Trump administration’s foreign policies have departed from both previous U.S. practice and some rather fragile norms about how states should behave. What are the most important developments, how is the rest of the world responding, what might come next, and even if a future administration wants to go back to previous approaches, is some of the change irreversible?

James Lindsay brings broad and deep perspective to these questions. He served for nearly two decades as Vice President, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations. His own research has established him as a leading scholar on foreign policy-making in the U.S. government.

Free and Open to the Public.
Closest parking is Lot 29, the Severance Hall garage
This program is made possible by the
generous support of Ms. Eloise Rollnick