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  • Rob was part of a roundtable with Rory Miller (KCL), David Milne (UEA) and Tim Lynch (Melbourne) to launch Tim's Oxford Encyclopedia of American Diplomatic and Military History (OUP, 2013) at Senate House on 25 April 2013.
  • Rob gave a talk, 'Continuity We Can Believe In: Two Cheers for Obama's Foreign Policy', at the Strategic Defence Forum, Sandhurst, 25 March 2013.
  • Rob gave a talk, 'US Politics: Looking Ahead', at the 'Understanding US Foreign Policy' programme at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 12 March 2013.
  • Rob gave talks on 'The 2012 Elections' and 'The Republican Party: Big Tent or Tea Party' at the Philip Allen Update conference, London, 13 February, 2013.
  • Rob gave a Quarterly Breakfast Briefing at Lloyds on January 24, 2013 on the topic 'Barack Obama's Second Term: prospects, pitfalls, and risk.'
  • Rob's article, 'America v Itself' appears in the January 2013 edition of BBK Magazine, at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/bbk/bbk-magazine-issue-31/America_v_itself.pdf
  • Rob gave a talk on 'US Politics: Looking Beyond 2012', at the 'Understanding US Foreign Policy' programme, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, on December 4, 2012.
  • Rob took part in a panel on the US election and the Middle East at Kings College, London, on November 13, 2012, at:
    http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/eventrecords/2012-13/uselection.aspx
  • Rob's September 2012 article, 'The Republican Party and US Foreign Policy', appears at: http://www.e-ir.info/
  • Rob was interviewed in September about the US election for Dukascopy TV, at: http://www.dukascopy.com/tv/#85110

and at: http://www.dukascopy.com/tv/#87536

  • Rob's new book, Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement, was published in May 2012.
  • Rob gave a talk, 'Looking Forward to the 2012 Elections and Beyond', as part of the 'Understanding US Foreign Policy' course at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 22 May, 2012.
  • Rob gave a presentation and Q & A on the US political system to members of Reprieve on 16 May, 2012.
  • Rob spoke about Obama's foreign policy to members of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Foreign and Defence Committees at the House of Commons on 15 May, 2012.
  • Rob gave the first Quarterly Breakfast Briefing at Lloyds on 8 February 2012, on the topics of 'what impact does American foreign policy still have on global political risk?'
  • Rob's article, 'The Roberts Court: judicial activism or judicial restraint?', appears in Politics Review vol. 21 issue 3 in February 2012.
  • Rob gave a talk on 'Looking Ahead to 2012' at the National School of Government, London, on 11 November 2011.
  • Rob was interviewed about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 for the article '9/11, Ora il cielo ha un altro significato,' in the Italian online journal, at: http://affaritaliani.libero.it/politica/9_11_ora_cielo_ha_altro_significato090911.html
  • Rob chaired a Chatham House members' event, 'Obama and the Middle East: Two Years On', featuring James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute in Washington DC, 9 February 2011.
  • Rob participated in a roundtable on 'Barack Obama's Democracy Promotion' at the conference, 'Our National Character, Our National Purpose: US President and Democracy Promotion', at the US Presidency Centre of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, 28 April 2010.
  • Rob participated in a panel on 'Obama Nation? US Foreign Policy One Year On' at LSE IDEAS, 21 January 2010.
  • Rob chaired the 7 September 2009 discussion, 'Obama's First Months: Was the Hype and Hope Justified?', with Richard Wolffe, MSNBC political analyst and author of Renegade: The Making of a President, at Chatham House.
  • After Bush won the Richard E. Neustadt prize for the best book published on US politics by a UK academic in 2008-09. (The award was made by the American Politics Group of the Political Science Association of the UK. After Bush was the joint winner with Steven Casey's Selling the Korean War.)
  • After Bush was the subject of a summer 2009 H-Diplo symposium of reviews, including Thomas Maddux, Robert Lieber, Joshua Muravchik and Richard Saull, at http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-20.pdf
  • Rob's essay, 'The 2008 US presidential election: all change?', was published in Politics Review 18 (3) 2009, pp. 2-5.
  • After Bush was reviewed by Joshua Muravchik, 'The End of the Beginning', in the November edition of Commentary.
  • Rob's essay, 'Conservative Justice? The Roberts Supreme Court', was published in Politics Review 18 (1) 2008, pp. 20-26.
  • Jonathan Rauch referred to After Bush in the cover story 'Bush's Legacy: Small Bore After All?', National Journal 22 September 2009 (http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20080920_4430.php)
  • Rob's article, 'US Presidential Election: Choice or Echo?' was published in the August/September edition of Chatham House's The World Today.
  • After Bush was reviewed by Gary Schmitt, former executive director of the Project for a New American Century, in 'Indispensable Nation: The Tradition Lives On', in The Weekly Standard (28 July 2008):
  • After Bush was mentioned by Nick Cohen in 'Why Bush Has Been a Liberal's Best Friend', The Observer (27 July 2008):
  • Rob's co-authored op-ed, 'Obama - the liberal Reagan or just a black Jimmy Carter?' appeared in The Yorkshire Post, 22 July 2009
  • Rob was in Washington DC from 17-28 July 2008 to discuss After Bush at the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the World Affairs Council and the Hudson Institute
  • After Bush was launched at the House of Commons, hosted by Stephen Crabb MP and the Henry Jackson Society. View transcript of remarks.
  • Rob's co-authored article, 'The toxic Texan's foreign policy doctrine will endure', appeared in The Guardian (10 June 2008)
  • Rob's co-authored article, 'Don't Expect A Big Change in US Foreign Policy', was published in the Wall Street Journal on the 2nd of June 2008
  • Rob’s co-authored book, After Bush: The Case For Continuity in American Foreign Policy, was published in May 2008 by Cambridge University Press
  • Rob’s article, ‘After Bush: Maintaining American Primacy’ appeared in the January 2008 edition of Chatham House’s The World Today
  • Fred Halliday and Rob Singh's article on American power on opendemocracy.net
  • Rob was one of the commentators in the Phill Jupitus BBC Radio 4 programme, Whose Side is Bart Simpson On?, broadcast 30 June 2007
 
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