Donald Trump Returns to the White House

Exploring Challenges Ahead From Interdisplinary Perspectives

Registration

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All students can register for one module. You can specify two preferences. Please use the numbers “1” and “2”. If you have not been assigned a place in the project after the end of the assignment and are still interested in participating, please contact sibel.yildirim[@]ipw.rwth-aachen.de directly.

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Academic Responsibility

Professor for Political Science at the RTWH Aachen University, responsible for Political Systems

Contact Person

Schedulue

Start

23.04.2025

Time

Wednesday, 6:30-8:00 pm

Place

1220 SB Maschinenwesen

Eilfschornsteinstr. 18

Contents

The 2024 U.S. Elections have received a great deal of attention. The controversial figure, Donald Trump being re-elected to the presidency, along with further controversial political ideas, persons, and more, trigger much discussion and debate. However, these develop-ments also invite a more in-depth and interdisciplinary academic look at the elections, the political system of the U.S, but also further facets and topics occasioned – and numerous challenges posed – by the recent U.S. elections and the new U.S. Presidential Administration: e.g. from foreign policy and international relations, politics of climate change, to digitaliza-tion, media and artificial intelligence, to name a few. This Leonardo lecture series will bring together political science, but also a variety of further disciplinary perspectives.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will learn how the US political system works
  • Students will develop a basic understanding of the political, economic and social developments in the USA, including the connection with Donald Trump’s second term in office
  • Students will develop a basic understanding of the gobal implications of the US foreign policy shift

Program

23.04.2025

Introduction

Prof. Dr. Jared Sonnicksen Professor for Political Science at the RTWH Aachen University, responsible for Political Systems

30.04.2025

 

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Prof. Dr. Jared Sonnicksen Dr. Mahir Tokatlı Institute for Political Science

07.05.2025

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14.05.2025

Risk and Risk-Perception

Prof. Dr. Katrin Arning
Junior Professor for Risk perception and communication

21.05.2025

Challenges of Trump and Trumpism: An Academic’s and Practitioners’ Perspective from Local Level

Prof. Dr. Marold Wosnitza
Lord Mayor of Zweibrücken
Institute of Educational Science

28.05.2025

Implications of the New Trump Administration for the Middle East

Dr. Mayssoun Zein al Din
Academy of International Affairs NRW
Director of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy for International Politics

18.06.2025

Toward a New World (Dis)Order? The New U.S. Foreign Policy and its Impact on International Relations

Prof. Dr. Ralph Rotte, RWTH Aachen
Professor for International Relations; RWTH-Aachen

25.06.2025

Donald Trump and Politicization of Justice

Prof. Dr. Pawel Laidler
Institute of American Science and Polish Diaspora | Jagiellonian University Krakow

02.07.2025

Concluding Session

Prof. Dr. Jared Sonnicksen
possibly Prof. Dr. Stephan Böschen
Holder of the Chair of “Technology and Society” at the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University
Director of the Käte Hamburger International Center „Research Cultures“
Spokesperson of the HumTec, RWTH Aachen University
Rector’s Delegate for the Leonardo Project at the HumTec, RWTH Aachen University

Procedure/Working method​

Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation. If you would like to take an exam, please make sure beforehand how you can get credit for it in your degree program. Of course, you can also take exams without receiving curricular credit for them. Visit our FAQs for more information.

Certificate

Certificate of Participation (0 CP, not graded)
Protocol with critical analysis  (2 CP, not graded)
Term Paper as a learning portfolio (4 CP)

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