Podcast now available for Prof Slaughters Inaugural Fulbright Lecture on International Relations

Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke on The Turn: American Foreign Policy 2009 to 2011 on 18 May 2011. After introductions by Professor Sir Adam Roberts and Professor Andrew Hurrell. Professor Slaughter discussed how the nature of US foreign policy during the Obama administration has shifted from purely government government diplomacy to place far greater emphasis on government society relations and on society - society relations. As part of this shift development has come to assume a much higher priority in US foreign policy, alongside defence and traditional diplomacy. Please click here to hear the podcast (25.27MB).

Anne-Marie Slaughter is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton and was Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department from January 2009 to February 2011. Professor Slaughter is an alumna of Oxford (Worcester College), and completed an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations.

The lecture was hosted by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in association with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the United States Embassy, Pembroke College and the Roth Endowment. The event is the first in a series of four annual Fulbright lectures in commemoration of Senator J. William Fulbright (Arkansas & Pembroke 1925). It is part of an initiative to commemorate Senator Fulbright involving the creation of the Annual Lecture and a Visiting Fellowship (already funded) and plans to raise money for a University Fulbright post, an as well as Fulbright rooms at Pembroke College. Full details can be found here.