Peter Trubowitz

Peter Trubowitz is a professor of international relations and director of the Phelan United States Centre at the London School of Economics (LSE), and associate fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He writes and comments frequently on international affairs and American politics.

His publications include Rethinking the 1990s: Liberal World Order Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War, Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture, Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft, and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in US Foreign Policy, as well as scholarly articles and essays in popular venues like Foreign Affairs.

Before joining the LSE, Trubowitz was a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, University of California at San Diego, Universidad de Chile, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, Tsinghua University, and the Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he was the J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy.

A frequent commentator on Bloomberg, CNBC, and other major media outlets, Trubowitz’s research has been supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. He received his BA in geography and political science from Clark University and his PhD in political science from MIT.