My name is Adam Quinn I’m a senior lecturer
here at the Political Science and International
Studies Department my research is on the United
States on International Politics and bringing
those two things together on United States
Foreign Policy. I'm working right now on some
publications about the power of the United
States and the international system its military
strength it's economic strength its political
strength in the international system and about
the issue of the rising powers and how the
United States is going to maintain its position
as the leading power in the international
system over the course of the years and decades
to come. I'm also interested in the domestic
politics of the United States in particular
and how that connects with its foreign policy
there are a lot of arguments within the United
States about the kind of world power that
it wants to be should it be a nationalistic
power that's trying to increase its own wealth
and its own military strength relative to
others or should it be trying to build a world
order that's much more liberal in its characteristics
and spread its ideological ideas around the
world what is the national interest of the
United States is not something that is already
objective and decided it's something that
Americans fight about amongst themselves a
lot and I’m very interested in those arguments
and how they relate to the foreign policy
that it then pursues in the world.
