Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the influence of political culture on US grand strategy, efforts to rebalance the transatlantic relationship, the history of US conservatism, the radicalization of the US right, and democratic backsliding. His 2019 book, Great Power Rising: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press), won the 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize.