Lecture Summary:
-During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney went out of their way to agree that America is not on the wane. Were they right?
-Is America’s time as the world’s lone superpower coming to an end?
-From Syria to Iran, Afghanistan to Egypt, why has Obama dramatically pulled back from engagement in the world’s most troubled spots? Should the U.S. play a larger role in global conflicts, or is this disengagement what Americans are clamoring for after more than a decade of war?

Susan Glasser is the Editor of POLITICO magazine. Previously she was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, the magazine of global politics, economics and ideas. During her tenure at its helm, the magazine won numerous awards for its innovative coverage, including three digital National Magazine Awards. Previously, Glasser covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent and editor at the Washington Post. She was also editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, and with her husband Peter Baker, co-authored the book “Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution.” She is a graduate of Harvard University.