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Foreign Policy for the Middle Class: U.S. and UK Perspectives

Wed. February 17th, 2021
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As the new Biden administration articulates its foreign policy for the middle class, the United Kingdom, in the wake of Brexit, is also rethinking its own international trade policy for the first time since the 1970s. How well a country manages to align foreign economic policy, such as trade and investment, with broader domestic and foreign policy and security aims is key in a 21st century marked by rising geo-economic competition. 

Join us for a conversation featuring the British Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce, former World Bank president Robert B. Zoellick, and the co-authors of two important new reports—Carnegie’s Making U.S. Foreign Policy Work Better for the Middle Class and LSE IDEAS’s Economic Diplomacy Commission—to discuss how the U.S. and the UK can deepen cooperation around the evolving challenges of globalization. 

This event is being co-organized with LSE IDEAS

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event speakers

Linda Yueh

Linda Yueh is visiting professor at LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and chair of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission. 

Rozlyn C. Engel

Nonresident Scholar, American Statecraft Program

Rozlyn C. Engel is a nonresident scholar in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on global macroeconomic risks, U.S. economic policy (foreign and domestic), and questions facing the economic intelligence community.

Robert Zoellick

Robert Zoellick is a former president of the World Bank, a former U.S. trade representative, and former U.S. deputy secretary of state. Zoellick currently serves as the senior counselor at the Brunswick Group and is the author of America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.

Karen Pierce

Dame Karen Pierce is the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States.

Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman is a chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times.