On Cosmopolitan Law, and the New Global Courts,
and the Globalization of the Political
Speaker: Ron Jennings, Columbia
University
Chair: Susan Marks, LSE
LSE Global Governance public lecture
9-Dec-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Local, national, regional, global - can they all
co-exist?
Speaker: Professor Johan Galtung
The nation system is fading,
Anglo-American hegemony for centuries is declining
and the US Empire is falling. Multilateral
regionalism is coming, the economy is seeking new
regional global and local roots. Can this hang
together?
Johan Galtung is Professor of Peace Studies. He is a
mathematician and sociologist who founded the
International Peace Research Institute in 1959, the
Journal of Peace Research in 1964 and
TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network.
9-Dec-2009, 13:00-14:00,
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
The Financial Crisis: How Europe can save the
world
Speakers: George Soros, Guy Verhofstadt
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
This public discussion marks the
publication of Guy Verhofstadt's latest book The
Financial Crisis: How Europe can Save the World.
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management,
LLC. He was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived
the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in
1947 for England, where he graduated from the London
School of Economics and Political Science. He then
settled in the United States, where he accumulated a
large fortune through an international investment
fund he founded and managed. Mr Soros has been
active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began
providing funds to help black students attend
Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. He
has established a network of philanthropic
organisations active in more than 50 countries
around the world. These organisations are dedicated
to promoting the values of democracy and an open
society. The foundation network spends about $400
million annually. Mr Soros is the author of ten
books. His articles and essays on politics, society,
and economics regularly appear in major newspapers
and magazines around the world.
Guy Verhofstadt is leader of the Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe group of MEP's in
the European Parliament, having himself been elected
to the parliament in June 2009. Priot to this he
served as Prime Minister of Belgium heading three
separate governments from 1999. In 1972, he became
President of the Liberal Flemish Students' Union in
Ghent and, four years later, was elected as a City
Councillor there. Keen to follow his interest in
national politics, Guy went on to take a number of
high profile posts including Political Secretary to
Willy De Clercq, National President of the Party for
Freedom and Progress (PVV), an MP in the House of
Representatives, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
for the Budget, a Senator, and National President of
the PVV and National President of the Flemish
Liberals and Democrats (VLD). In addition to his
duties as a politician, Guy has written a number of
books including, The United States of Europe (2006),
The New Age of Empires (2008) and most recently The
Financial Crisis: How Europe can Save the World
(2009).
26-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
New Theatre, East Building, LSE
Who Ended the Cold War?
Speakers: Andrei Grachev, Professor Mary Kaldor,
Jack Matlock, Ferenc Miszlivetz
Twenty years after the revolutionary
events of 1989 those who had a first-person view
of history unfolding meet to consider who, or
what, was most responsible for bringing about an
end to the Cold War.
Andrei Grachev is Chairman of the Scientific
Committee of the World Political Forum and was
an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and until
December 1991 the official Spokesman of the
President of the USSR. Professor Mary Kaldor is
co-director of CsGG and a founding member of
European Nuclear Disarmament (END). Jack Matlock
has held academic posts at Columbia and Princeton
Universities amongst others and was US Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia from 1981 to 1983 and US Ambassador
to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.
LSE Global Governance and Department of Sociology public lecture
25-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Sociology and the Financial Crisis: Which
crisis, and which sociology?
Speaker: Professor Michel Wieviorka
In 1929, sociologists did not really
study the Great Depression and
today, they publish very little on the present
economic crisis. There are two main approaches
to the crisis, one focused on recent events and
limited to the financial dimensions of the
crisis and the other focused on the past thirty
five years, viewing the financial crisis in the
more general framework of a global mutation.
Michel Wieviorka argues that sociology is not
lacking in ways and means to study the crisis in
this second perspective, providing sociologists
update categories and recognize the importance
of new objects.
20-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Location to be announced to ticket holders
Can We Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?
Speakers: Ambassador Richard Burt, Kate Hudson, Professor Mary Kaldor, Her
Majesty Queen Noor
Twenty years after the fall of the
Berlin Wall is the time finally right to achieve the
elimination of nuclear weapons? Leading proponents
of nuclear disarmament discuss why achieving Global
Zero – a world without nuclear weapons – is both
necessary and realistic.
Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public
servant and an outspoken voice on issues of world
peace and justice. Mary Kaldor is Professor of
Global Governance and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, LSE. Kate Hudson is the chair of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and her most recent
book is CND Now More than Ever: The Story of a
Peace Movement. Richard Burt served in the
Reagan administration as Assistant Secretary of
State for European and Canadian Affairs and then as
US Ambassador to Germany from 1985 to 1989. Under
President George H.W. Bush, he served as US Chief
Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
with the former Soviet Union.
18-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
What Next? Surviving the 21st Century
Speakers: Professor David Held, Lord Patten
The list of challenges facing the world
is growing rapidly from climate change to nuclear
proliferation and nobody seems to have much of a
grip on what is going on. Hosted by Global Policy, a
new innovative and interdisciplinary journal, this
debate will discuss what we know in each of these
areas and how progress can be made.
David Held is the Graham Wallas Professor of
Political Science and co-director of the Centre for
the Study of Global Governance. Chris Patten is
chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities and
author of What Next? Surviving the 21st Century. A
former MP, he is best known for being the last
Governor of Hong Kong and, at one time, Chairman of
the Conservative Party and former European
Commissioner for External Relations.
LSE Global Governance Kuwait Programme public lecture
17-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Obama and the Arabs: The historical context
Speaker: Eugene Rogan
This lecture will examine the Obama
factor in addressing the many challenges facing
US policy towards the Middle East, and Arab
relations with the world's sole superpower.
Eugene Rogan is director of Oxford's Middle East
Centre and author of The Arabs: A history.
Global Policy public lecture
16-Nov-2009, 18:30-20:00,
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
People Power and the End of the Cold War
Speaker: Professor Sir Adam Roberts
Was the end of the Cold War a victory
for power politics, or for people power? Non-violent
popular movements played a significant part in the
opening of the Berlin Wall. How did they relate to other
forms of power, and what was their effect on the shaping
of the post-Cold War world?
Adam Roberts is president of the British Academy and
senior research fellow in the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Oxford. His is co-editor of
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: the experience of
non-violent action from Gandhi to the present.
LSE Global Governance special seminar
29-Oct-2009, 10:00-11:00,
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, LSE
How do mobilisations on global issues -
such as trade and debt - influence national policy
changes?
Building on several case studies from the UK, France
and Italy - part of a project of UNRISD and the
University of Rome "La Sapienza" - the seminar will
discuss patterns of social activism on global
justice, the growing role of global civil society
networks, the ways mobilisation interact with
national political processes in Europe, and their
impact on policy.
Mario Pianta is Professor of Economic Policy at the
University of Urbino, and has recently been a
visiting fellow at the European University
Institute, the London School of Economics, the
Université Sorbonne. He works on international
economic policy and social movements.
LSE Global Governance public lecture
26-Oct-2009, 18:30-20:00,
New Theatre, East Building, LSE
Skyful of Lies and Black Swans: The new tyranny
of shifting information power in crises
Speaker: Nik Gowing
Nik Gowing highlights the new
vulnerabilities of political and corporate power
in times of major acute crises due to the new
transparent information environment.
Nik Gowing is the main presenter for BBC World
News.
LSE Global Governance public lecture
2-Oct-2009, 18:00-19:30,
Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Why is Bosnia a Failure? Comparing theories of
international state-building
Speaker: Susan Woodward
Fourteen years since the signing of the
Dayton Accord, the "General Framework for Peace"
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, there is an emerging
consensus that the international state-building
agenda in Bosnia has failed. This consensus also
follows 14 years of academic studies that are
almost uniformly critical of international
policies. The explanations for failure vary,
however. What are they? What evidence do they
offer? What lessons does each draw for other
international state-building missions since
1995? Is Bosnia a failure?
Susan Woodward is professor at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. She
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, DC, 1990-1999, and at King's
College London, 1999-2000, head of the
Assessment and Analysis Unit of UNPROFOR, 1994,
and on the faculty of Yale University, Williams
College, Mount Hollyoke College, and
Northwestern University from 1972-1989. Her
writings include Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and
Dissolution after the Cold War (Brookings Press
1995) and Socialist Unemployment: The Political
Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton
University Press, 1995).
The event is free and open to all with no ticket
required. Entry is on a first come, first served
basis.
An Alternative to Statecraft: Should diplomacy
adapt to a new world environment?
Speakers: His Excellency Georg Boomgaarden, Dr Mary Martin, Her Excellency Pilar Saborio
The European Union is designing a new external
action service as part of the changes to foreign policy
proposed under the Lisbon Treaty. This lecture examines
the contemporary demands on diplomatic missions.
Pilar Saborio is the ambassador of Costa Rica to the UK.
Georg Boomgaarden is the ambassador of Germany to the
UK. Nick Mabey is chief executive of E3G Third
Generation Environmentalism. Mary Martin is a research
fellow at LSE's Centre for the Study of Global
Governance.
For a podcast of this
event please see our audio files page.
public lecture
13-July-2009, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Human Security in an Age of Turbulence
Speaker: Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is a prolific author who has written widely on a range of key issues over the years ranging from the 'Baroque Arsenal' (1982) a study that challenged the logic of militarism and the belief that more weapons meant more security, through to her groundbreaking 'New Wars'(1999) a book that reveals the new forms that organized violence will take in the 21st century. Mary Kaldor today is one of the most influential and respected alternative voices in the field of applied international politics who over the last few years has forced the wider policy community to rethink the meaning of war and the foundations of what she has called 'human security'. An immensely influential figure who has shaped debates at both the United Nations and in the European Union, in this public lecture she will reflect on what it means to be secure and how security can be achieved in an age of increasing turbulence.
viewing restricted** events series - panel discussion
03-June-2009, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
The Future of Picturing the World: Documentary Films and Photojournalism in a Global Era
Speakers: Lilie Chouliaraki, Adrian Evans, Renzo Martens, Sabine Selchow and Julian Stallabrass
Chair: Paul Lowe
Can images change the world? If pictures of suffering - poverty, disease, war - have less impact in a global age saturated by visual images, what is the role of filmmakers and photojournalists? Faced with 'compassion fatigue', how is their practice changing? What are the implications for NGOs, the media, international institutions and donors who rely on photography and film for many varied purposes? Could images be used differently given the logic of the mass media? To what extent will the Internet open up new spaces and change the way in which images are used?
Adrian Evans is Director of Panos Pictures. Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communicaions at LSE and POLIS Research Director. Renzo Martens is an artist. Sabine Selchow is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and the Development Studies Institute at LSE. Julian Stallabrass is Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Paul Lowe is Course Director of the MA programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.
viewing restricted** events series - public lecture
26-May-2009, 19:00-20:00, Wolfson Theatre, LSE
All That Life Can Afford
Speaker: Mishka Henner
For some, London is a playground of excess offering the promise of social mobility. For others, it is a bureaucratic nightmare preventing self-determination and basic rights such as shelter and employment. Through photographs, slogans and quotes, Mishka's photographic essay All That Life Can Afford explores the divided relationships wealthier and poorer Londoners have with the city. In this talk, Mishka seeks to deconstruct the production of All That Life Can Afford to reveal the negotiations and obstacles involved in visualising poverty, questioning photography's usefulness in exposing the often hidden mechanisms that keep a city's population divided.
Mishka Henner is a photographic artist based in Manchester, England.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043
viewing restricted** events series - panel discussion
27-May-2009, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Picturing Poverty: London Past and Present
Speakers: Sue Donnelly, Mishka Henner, Mike Seaborne and Gillian Rose
How is poverty in London perceived? What role do visual depictions play in our understanding of this impoverishment? And what do these images reveal about attitudes to 'the poor', past and present? In ostensibly wealthy cities such as London, such portrayals can be contentious and challenging - but to what extent can they be insightful?
From Charles Booth's nineteenth century maps, and early photographs of East End tenements, to rich-poor divides in Hackney, this panel discussion will consider old and new ways of seeing poverty - and understanding the underlying political processes that serve to both reproduce and reduce it.
Sue Donnelly is Head of Archives at LSE. Mishka Henner is a photographic artist based in Manchester, England. Mike Seaborne is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of London. Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at Open University.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.
public talk
21-May-2009, 19:00-20:00,
Wolfson Theatre, LSE
The Winning Side of an Image
Speakers: Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg
Documentary photography is problematic. Without a witness, a victim is alone and dehumanised. We also know that victims are made for, or even by, the camera. In presenting their work from Afghanistan, while embedded with the British Army last June, Adam and Oliver attempt to highlight and compensate for these blind spots. In addition to showing The Day Nobody Died, they also present extracts from works produced in Iraq, The Red House, and Israel, Chicago.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have collaborated for over a decade in which time they have produced six books examining the language of documentary photography in different ways. These include Mr Mkhize's Portrait (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid and accompanied a solo show at the Photographers Gallery; Chicago (SteidMACK 2006), an exploration of the militarisation of contemporary Israel which was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum; and The Red House (Steidl 2007), produced in the cells below the former Ba'athist Party Headquarters in Iraq. Adam and Oliver are recipients of many awards, including the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society, and are trustees of the Photographers' Gallery and Photoworks. They lecture on the MA in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.
public discussion
19-May-2009, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Opening Up ‘Illiberal’ Regimes: Do Media and Communications Matter?
Speakers: Mary Kaldor, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Rita Payne, Maung Zarni
Chair: Lord Anthony Giddens
Even in closed authoritarian systems or ‘illiberal’ regimes spaces exist for civil society activity, debate, and networking. Accelerated by globalization, this process is enabled by diverse actors using traditional mediums and new communications technology. In what ways do civil society organizations, scholars, religious figures, journalists and others expand such spaces to discuss alternative philosophies, ideas and challenge the status quo? How important is the idea of a shared ‘global consciousness’ to such actors? To what extent is change influenced by or dependent on external forces, for example, industrialists, merchants or military?
This panel of scholars and practitioners will highlight the spaces created or expanded in various ‘illiberal’ regimes, including Iran and Burma, the challenges and risks involved, and the impact of such activity in bringing about change.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance at LSE and Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is Senior Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS. Rita Payn is the Chair of the Commonwealth Journalists Association (UK branch), Maung Zarni is the Coordinator of the Research Initiative on Myanmar/Burma (RIM/B), CSGG, & Founder, Free Burma Coalition. Lord Anthony Giddens, the House of Lords and Former Director of LSE
viewing restricted** events series - public lecture
11-May-2009, 19:00-20:00, Wolfson Theatre, LSE
Urban Nomads
Speaker: Sharron Lovell
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China is a country in superlative transition. Media attention focuses primarily on the economic miracle and burgeoning political power, while the interwoven and critically important story of mass human migration remains a postscript. Driven from crumbling countryside economics, 200 million Chinese have moved to the cities, serving as cogs in an engine powering unprecedented growth. Though they are changing every facet of Chinese life, these internal migrants are, by law and practice, second-class citizens in their own land. They gamble everything - health, safety and family - to grab a piece of the modern Chinese life.
Sharron Lovell is a photographer currently based in Shanghai. When approaching Viewing Restricted, Sharron aimed to involve the subject matter in the migrants' own representations; extensive interviews lead the narratives and participants were also invited to shoot pictures and edit the final work. Media treatment of China's migration tends to homogenize their experiences; by contrast Urban Nomads attempts to look at the issue on a micro, human scale.
View the multimedia project, photographed, with audio and video, by Sharron Lovell, and produced by David Campbell:
Watch the video on the vimeo.com site
viewing restricted** events series - public lecture
07-May-2009, 19:00-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Documentary Photography: The Long Term Project
Speaker: Jessica Dimmock
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Jessica Dimmock outlines the issues and obstacles relating to documentary photography, and the value of the long-term project. She explores the process of engaging with subjects and the stories resulting from such sustained focus. This talk also considers the development of story ideas for the freelance photographer.
Jessica Dimmock is a graduate of the International Center of Photography's Program in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. She has received the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, the Inge Morath Award from Magnum, and the Marty Forsher Fellowship fro Documentary Photography from PDN. Her work has appeared in Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Wired, and Fader. Her first book, The Ninth Floor (Contrasto), was published in 2007, and her first international solo exhibition held at Forma, The International Center of Photography, Milan. In Spring 2008, Jessica had two solo exhibitions - at Foam, The Photography Museum of Amsterdam, and at Foley, New York.
panel discussion and launch of global civil society 2009
06-May-2009, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
How 'the Poor' become 'Poor': Debating Global Civil Society and Constructions of Poverty
Speakers: David Campbell, Teresa Hanley, Ashwani Kumar
and Sally Stares
Chair: Mary Kaldor
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The eighth edition of the Global Civil Society Yearbook, themed on poverty and activism, will be launched with this panel discussion.
Global Civil Society 2009 explores the framing, strategies and impacts of various actors in global civil society on poverty and its eradication. A CSGG collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and the Centre for Social Investment at Heidelberg University, this edition is published by Sage.
David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University. Teresa Hanley manages the Programme on Public Interest in Poverty at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor at TISS, Mumbai, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Mary Kaldor is co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Professor of Global Governance at LSE.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket
required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. It will be followed by a reception and opening of the photo exhibition Viewing Restricted: [Re] Presenting Poverty in the Atrium Gallery.
public debate
30-April-2009, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Do Tax Havens Cause Poverty?
Speakers: John Christensen, Director (Tax Justice Network),
Attiya Waris (Lecturer, University of Nairobi),
Nick Mathiason (Business Correspondent, The Observer),
Felicity Lawrence (Special Correspondent, The Guardian)
Chair: Professor Martin Albrow
Tax havens have come under fire recently due to the risks associated with unregulated financial services, and the secrecy space they provide for tax avoidance and evasion. Their defenders argue they provide vital financial services for international trade, and that most havens comply with money-laundering regulations and have juridical co-operation treaties. This panel will explore the issues surrounding tax havens, in particular their impacts on poor people.
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conference
31-Mar - 02-Apr-2009
Nationalism and Globalisation
19th Annual ASEN Conference
31-Mar - 02-Apr-2009, LSE
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding its 19th Annual Conference, entitled “Nationalism and Globalisation”, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 31st March - 2nd April 2009, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Nationalism and globalisation are complex phenomena generating vigorous academic debates. Yet, there has been little sustained theoretical and empirical consideration of their relationship, and no framework devised capable of satisfactorily dealing with the interactions between the two, especially as these change over time and vary from place to place. Yet nationalism has both shaped, and been shaped by globalization. This conference seeks to explore the relationship between nationalism and globalisation in its various forms, primarily focusing on the impact of globalisation on national identity, national sovereignty, state-formation, and the ways in which nationalism has shaped globalising processes.
The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field, along with opportunities for scholars from various disciplines to examine the relationship between nationalism and globalisation in a series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:
- Conflicting or complementary phenomena?
- Nationalism and global political conflict
- Global migration patterns and national identities
- Globalisation and the emergence of new forms of nationalism
- The impact of globalisation on national culture
- Nationalism versus supranationalism
- Pan-nationalism
The first day will explore the theoretical and historical relationship between globalisation, nationalism and national identities. The second day will examine current issues such as migration, arms proliferation, financial crisis, multinational corporations and global consumer culture and their impact on the nation-state and national identities. The third day will focus on the interaction between globalisation and novel forms of nationalism and regional identities as well as nationalist responses to supranationalism, including European integration. The conference will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on historical, theoretical and contemporary aspects of the theme.
research seminar series 2008/9
17-Mar-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Efficiency, Transparency, and Participation to Escape the Resource Curse
Speaker: Vanessa Herringshaw
Two thirds of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources. The links between resource wealth, poverty, conflict and corruption – the so-called ‘resource curse’ – are well documented. Studies suggest that with effective and responsible governance, natural resources can generate revenues that foster economic growth and reduce poverty. Public information and public accountability are key for ensuring that a country's resource wealth will translate into lasting benefits for citizens. Vanessa Herringshaw will outline how the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) works with committed governments, civil society and other oversight bodies through a ‘Value Chain’ approach to harness the development potential of extractive industry revenues. The focus will be on RWI’s groundbreaking ‘subnational projects’ in Ghana, Nigeria, Peru and Indonesia.
Vanessa Herringshaw is director of the London office of RWI and a visiting fellow at the LSE. Previously she has worked extensively with Save the Children UK and was a Frank Knox Scholar at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government. RWI is a non-profit policy institute and grant-making organization that promotes the responsible management of oil, gas, and mineral resources for the public good.
research seminar series 2008/9
10-Mar-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
How Does Public Investment Affect Economic Growth in Croatia?
Speaker: Sasa Drezgic
Since the 1950s, empirical research has struggled to provide a definitive answer to the role of capital accumulation in economic growth. Most of the research on relevant issues has been conducted in the United States, Spain, and the Netherlands. There is no evidence of significant efforts to focus any research of this kind on transition economies. This empirical analysis is conducted on the basis of Croatian datasets, drawing on official data and by derivation on other sources. The study suggests that capital accumulation is linked to positive growth effects overall, as well as in specific sectors, and sets out a framework for further investigation.
Sasa Drezgic is a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka in Croatia and a visiting fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance. His thesis attempts to determine the effects of intensive public investment activity in Croatia, while his research interests span the broader field of public finances.
research seminar series 2008/9
03-Mar-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Symbolic and Distributive Cleavages in Serbia After 2000
Speaker: Dusan Pavlovic
Dusan Pavlovic considers to what extent and in what way nationalism constitutes an obstacle for political and economic transformation. His research suggests that the reason for slow consolidation in Serbia lies squarely with the type of political cleavages that have dominated Serbian politics since the mid-1980s. The dominance of nationalism led to a symbolic game in Serbia where voters have generally been mobilized not by the presentation of alternative policies but rather by manipulation and invocation of symbols and myths. The dominance of symbolic cleavages, in contrast to distributional cleavages, rarely leaves room for compromise and serves to undermine democracy.
Dusan Pavlovic is a political scientist currently teaching at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, and a visiting fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance. He has published on Serbian politics under Milosevic as well as on the process of democratic consolidation after 2000. His current interests include political and social theory (rational choice theory in particular) and the consolidation of democracy.
research seminar
24-Feb-2009, 12:00-13:00, D211, LSE
Democracy 2.0: the future of the Internet & civil society
Speaker: Matt Thompson, viral filmmaker and campaign strategist
Global civil society goes viral. How are top NGOs using the web and multimedia? What can civil society learn from the online success of the Obama campaign? Can the open Internet re-invent democracy? Join filmmaker and campaign strategist Matt Thompson for a multimedia exploration and discussion of best practices from winning online campaigns -- and how they’re impacting NGOs, political communication and global civil society.
Matt Thompson is the founder of Story One, a Canadian campaign strategy & training firm for progressive NGOs including Greenpeace, Mother Jones, and the U.S. media watchdog Free Press. His videos have been viewed over a million times and in 2007 he won a Webby Award (“the Oscars of the Internet” -- New York Times) for his campaign video, “Save the Internet”.
public lecture 2008/9
11-Feb-2009, 18:30-20:00, Hong
Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Afghanistan and Iraq: good war, bad war?
Speaker: Lakhdar Brahimi
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Lakhdar Brahimi, with an extensive career in peace-building, reflects on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with Mary Kaldor.
Lakhdar Brahimi was foreign minister of Algeria (1991-93) and prior to that ambassador to the UK (1971-79). He mediated the end of the Civil War in Lebanon (1988-91) and headed UN Missions in South Africa, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq. Lakhdar Brahimi is now a member of "The Elders", a group created at the initiative of Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel and chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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research seminar series 2008/9
10-Feb-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Regimes of Governing Trauma and 'Transitional Justice': Politics of the Missing and Witnessing to Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Speaker: Jasmina Husanovic
This seminar reflects on the work of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) in following through its mission – 'telling the story of a mass grave' and 'mapping a genocide', as well as telling the story of missing persons – in the context of key spaces of publicity, where this story-telling and mapping has unfolded in relation to the dominant master-narrative of 'therapeutic' or 'transitional' justice and (inter)national regimes of governance/power operative within it. Two questions are addressed: What is 'harvested/extracted' by the politics of witnessing to the trauma of the missing persons, whose absolute indices of signification are the very 'mathemes of reassociation' and 'bar-codes' used in the forensic and bioinformatic work of ICMP? Which political imperatives are upon us when we move from the 'bar-codes' of depoliticisation towards the repoliticised 'stories/faces/bodies' and acts of emancipatory politics as witnessing to trauma?
Jasmina Husanovic is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, and a visiting fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She currently works on issues of memory, trauma, and emancipatory politics, and has published widely on these topics.
research seminar series 2008/9
20-Jan-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Fasting and Feasting India: Democracy and the Poor
Speaker: Ashwani Kumar
India has been undergoing something extraordinary and puzzling since the early 1990s – liberalizing its economy within the established democratic order. Theorists of democracy find this experience counterintuitive as democracy in the West has followed an entirely different historical trajectory. Characterized by greater mobility, participatory leanings and subaltern moorings, the poor tend to vote more than the rich; they place more faith in the democratic institutions; and self-organize more frequently in civil society – rendering the democratic experience rather messy. Outside observers have described this constellation as ‘impending chaos’ or ‘functioning anarchy’. It has also been the case that the rich have learnt the hard way not to compromise on constitutional guarantees of civic freedoms. Reflecting on the tensions and complexities of that experience, scholars have depicted it as a ‘democratic upsurge’.
Undoubtedly, India has changed beyond recognition yet it continues to be a land of paradox where the rich dine, wine and prepare themselves to die in the tragic violence of terrorism at Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai; and where ‘sewage glistens’ like a slivery moon and the poor rural women wait behind closed doors to fall on the salaries of their returning migrant husbands. In this India democracy increasingly means profane dreams and indiscriminate openness for rich and poor alike. The rich and the poor have confronted an experience that is at once sublime and banal, secular and sacred, liberating and oppressive. The so-called culturally exotic, spuriously spiritual and utterly corrupt Indians have today come to live amidst a seamlessly boisterous web of what Ashwani Kumar calls ‘fasting and feasting India’.
Ashwani Kumar teaches politics at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai and is currently a visiting fellow at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance. He is also the author of Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Private Caste Armies in India, published by Anthem Press.
research seminar series 2008/9
13-Jan-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Politics and the Bomb: Assessing the Impact of Epistemic Communities on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Success
Speaker: Sara Kutchesfahani
In explanations relating to nuclear non-proliferation success, little attention has been given to the role of experts and networks from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Sara Kutchesfahani argues that these ‘epistemic communities’ help identify and frame the issue of non-proliferation as a national interest, diffuse their ideas to regional counterparts through strong transnational ties, and contribute to the way national policymakers formulate their decisions on nuclear non-proliferation.
Sara Kutchesfahani is a PhD candidate at University College, London. Her thesis aims to answer what explains nuclear non-proliferation success. She has worked on nuclear non-proliferation policy at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the EU Institute for Security Studies (Paris) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).
research seminar series 2008/9
27-Jan-2009, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Global Energy Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Russia in the New Energy Architecture
Speaker: Victoria Panova
The global energy system is entering a new era – a rocky period of adaptation, with economic, political, and military perturbations on a global level. This period calls for rethinking the paradigm of energy security and related institutional structures. Victoria Panova considers the current context in order to address specifically the challenges for Russia. What could/should be the role of Russia in global energy governance? Could certain entrenched stereotypes about the country be countered? And, finally, what direction for Russia’s political and business elites in engaging with the world?
Victoria Panova is a senior lecturer at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), where she conducts her research and teaches in IR. She also acts as a regional director (Moscow office) of the G8 Research Group (University of Toronto) and director for international cooperation of the International Center for Sustainable Energy Development in Moscow.
public discussion
09-Dec-2008, 18:30-20:00, room LG01, New Academic Building, LSE
India’s ‘9/11’ and the Globalisation of Terror
Speakers:
Ashwani Kumar, Mary Kaldor, Kanishk Tharoor and
Paul Hilder
Mumbai’s terror has reminded us in the starkest and darkest terms the most ugly and horrifying face of global terror. Though India is no stranger to terror, the level of coordination, sophistication and efficiency of its execution in Mumbai indicate that global terror is no longer unpredictable and arbitrary. Popular understanding of terror as an ‘unforgivable crime’, ‘culture wars’, or restricting Mumbai’s terror to a particularistic reading of a nation's ‘past and present’ will not help us understand the nature of a new type of violence rooted in the rationality, technologies and networks of globalisation.
Though it often speaks in the multiple languages of ‘avenging historical wrongs’, ‘primordial loyalty’, ‘perversions of nationalism’, ‘evils of capitalism’ and the stigmatized ‘Other of modernity’, the terror of new violence is powered by modern technologies of globalisation and distinguished by totalitarians dreams to erase cultural and political differences among nations, communities and individuals. In short, Mumbai terror symbolises the unfolding global march of an extremely exclusivist, violent, political project to make human freedom irrelevant. Remembering the victims of Mumbai terror will perhaps allow us to reflect on creatively constructing newer ways of protecting, preserving and renewing the politics of open conversation and reconciliation.
Failing to think and deliberate imaginatively on global terror would risk consolidating the popular yet brutal mythologies of security, counter insurgency, and civil wars etc, leading to the ‘death of the political’ in our public and private spaces across the globe. The tragic incidents of terror in Mumbai encourage us to reflect on the potential of a cosmopolitan project of democracy and peace.
Dr Ashwani Kumar is Associate Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Visiting Fellow at CSGG, LSE.
Professor Mary Kaldor is co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Professor of Global Governance at LSE.
Kanishk Tharoor is Associate Editor at openDemocracy.net and Paul Hilder is campaign director of the global civic advocacy network Avaaz.org.
research seminar series 2008/9
09-Dec-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Current challenges on representation theories
Speaker: Ermal Hasimja
Current representation theories acknowledge the difficulty of defining the concept and legitimizing institutional practices based on it. Classical points of view are based on the idea that what are represented are opinions, identities, social perspectives or simply voters. In my work, I start from the assumption that identities, opinions or any other elements that is supposed to be represented does not precede political representation but is constructed by political discourse. As Bourdieu puts it, it's not the group that chooses its spokesperson, but the spokesperson that constructs the group to be represented. This conclusion does not resolve longstanding dilemmas on political representation, but help to reformulate its ambiguity. Therefore the only way to consider legitimate representation is to connect it, not to any pre-constructed identity, but to the decision of the represented to choose their representatives, whatever this polysemic and over-determined decision could mean for them.
research seminar series 2008/9
02-Dec-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Financing Civil Society - A Practitioner's Guide to the UK Social Investment Market
Speaker: Paul Cheng
Venturesome, the social investment fund, believes that there are three core barriers blocking further development of the UK social investment market, barriers which affect both the supply and demand sides of the market:
(i) financial risk aversion;
(ii) lack of understanding of financial needs; and
(iii) the inefficiency of the market place.
Despite the great strides made over the last few years, breaking down these three barriers is a major task. In this talk, Paul Cheng explains the problem and suggests possible solutions.
Paul Cheng is an Investment Manager at Venturesome - the largest independent social investment fund in the United Kingdom.
21st Century Challenges: the management of climate change and the movement to a new low carbon economy
Speaker: Dr Ian Goldin
Chair: Professor David Held
Dr Ian Goldin is the first Director of The James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford University taking up his position in September 2006. Goldin was Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006) and prior to that the Bank's Director of Development Policy (2001-2003). He served on the Bank's senior management team, and was directly responsible for its relationship with the UK and all other European, North America and developed countries. Goldin led the Bank's collaboration with the United Nations and other partners. As Director of Development Policy, Goldin played a pivotal role in the research and strategy agenda of the Bank. From 1996 to 2001 he was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and served as an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. He succeeded in transforming the Bank to become the leading agent of development in the 14 countries of Southern Africa. During this period, Goldin served on several Government committees and Boards, and was Finance Director for South Africa's Olympic Bid.
Previously, Goldin was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and Program Director at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he directed the Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development. Born in South Africa, Goldin has a BA (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford
Goldin has received wide recognition for his contributions to development and research, including having been knighted by the French Government and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He has published over 50 articles and 12 books, the two most well-known being and Globalisation for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Ideas (reprinted 2007) and The Economics of Sustainable Development (1995). The latter, published by Palgrave Macmillan/the World Bank in 2006, has been commended as "essential reading" by Nobel Prize economist, Joseph Stiglitz. In addition to being Director of the School, Goldin holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2008/9
18-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Finding Principles for Global Governance
Speaker: Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is a sociologist, honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales. He has taught and researched in the USA and Germany as well as in the UK. His books include 'Do Organizations have Feelings?' and the prize winning, 'The Global Age'.
ralph miliband public lecture series
18-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?
Speakers: Lord Meghnad Desai, David Harvey, Leo Panitch
Chair: David Held
This event brings together leading social and political thinkers to debate the contemporary meaning and relevance of Marx's legacy on the occasion of the republication of The Communist Manifesto, with an introduction by David Harvey.
Meghnad Desai (picture) is emeritus professor of economics at LSE. David Harvey is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University, Ontario.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
public discussion
13-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Can We Measure Democracy? The Political uses of Indexes of Democracy, Governance and Civil Society
Speakers: Hania Farhan, Catherine Fieschi, Michael Hammer
Discussants: Helmut Anheier, Jeff Thindwa
Chair: Martin Albrow
The panel will explore various attempts to measure the extent of democracy, the strength of civil society, and the accountability of powerful organisations. What purposes do such measurements serve and what effects do they have?
Helmut Anheier is director of the Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg and centennial professor at LSE. Hania Farhan is director of research at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Catherine Fieschi is a senior associate at Demos. Michael Hammer is executive director of the One World Trust. Jeff Thindwa is a senior civil society specialist at the World Bank.
Presenters: Helmut
Anheier and Yudhihthir Raj Isar
Panelists: Mary Kaldor and Henrietta L. Moore
Cultures and Globalization is a new book series that highlights contemporary cultural changes and their implications and aims to encourage debate about the relationship between culture and globalization. Each volume also includes an innovative presentation of indicator suites on
cultures and globalization. The inaugural theme in 2007 was Conflicts and Tensions. The second volume, The Cultural Economy, analyses the
dynamic relationship in which culture is a driver of the economic changes that in turn transform the conditions of culture.
This seminar brings together scholars from different disciplines to address culture in a globalizing world.
public discussion
11-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Kosovo's Independence and the Balkans: regional implications and challenges
Speakers: Jelena Bjelica, Anna Di Lellio, Enver Hoxhaj, Tim Judah
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova
Uncertainty over the status of Kosovo had undermined stability in the Balkans since the early 1990s. The panel of experts discusses Kosovo's declaration of independence and its political, economic and security impact on the Balkans.
Jelena Bjelica is the editor-in-chief of the weekly Gradjanski Glasnik, Kosovo. Anna Di Lellio is the editor of the book The Case for Kosova: passage to independence. Enver Hoxhaj is the current minister of education, science and technology of the Republic of Kosovo. Tim Judah is the author of the prize winning book The Serbs: history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia.
research seminar series 2008/9
11-Nov-2008, 13:30-14:30, M101, LSE
Human Rights Futures
Speaker: Francesca Klug
Professor Francesca Klug, Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Director of the Human Rights
Futures Project, will discuss her research. The Human Rights Futures Project seeks to explore and analyse the future direction of human
rights in the UK and elsewhere and to monitor and evaluate the Human Rights Act. The Project has critically assessed proposals for a British
Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to evaluate claims that it builds on the Human Rights Act and does not undercut or rescind from it. The
Project's research on equality as a foundation principle of 'second wave' human rights, and on comparative models for domestic human rights
protection, have fed into Francesca's work on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), on which she sits as a Commissioner. Francesca is currently writing a sequel to her book Values for a Godless Age: the story of the UK Bill of Rights (Penguin, 2000), to be published by
Routledge, with a working title How Rights Went Wrong: time for a new Enlightenment? Francesca will discuss these and other aspects of the
Project. She will be joined by her research assistant, Helen Wildbore.
research seminar series 2008/9
10-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, NAB,
room: 1.15, LSE
Imagining the City (with excerpts from the film 'Naata')
Speakers: K P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro
Mumbai has been represented in diverse ways in the media - a range of representations that create a field as complex and contested as the city itself. Every act of representation is an exercise of power and resistance that relates to the larger relations of power, to processes of exclusion and inclusion that underpin the city. The presentation will explore the strategies adopted and the dilemmas faced by the filmmakers in representing the city, drawing on their film Naata.
K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS in Mumbai. Monteiro has a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. Jayasankar has an M.A. in German language and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences. Both are involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of their work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. These range from the stories and paintings of indigenous peoples to the poetry of prison inmates. Jointly they have won twenty one national and international awards for their films.
The Film
NAATA (The Bond); English, 2003, 45 mins.
Friends and activists, Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, work with neighbourhood peace committees in Dharavi, Mumbai to promote conflict resolution through the collective production and use of visual media. Korde and Khan are both long-time residents of Dharavi and both first-generation migrants to the city. As Asia's largest slum, with a population of 800,000, Dharavi has often been represented as a breeding ground for filth, vice and poverty, full of immigrants whose right to live in the city is often questioned by vigilante citizens' groups and right-wing politicians. However, Dharavi's long history of immigration has created a creative, productive space which plays an important role in the economy of the city; it is one of the major hubs of the informal sector that produces commodities ranging from food products to leather goods catering to a large export market.
When the deadly riots of 1992-93 tore the city and their community apart, Korde and Khan were moved to act, working to change both the negative perception of Dharavi and erase religious and ethnic divisions. Naata follows these remarkable men as they work on their film, Ekta Sandesh - their work paralleling that of Naata's own filmmakers, another filmmaking pair who are immigrants to their city of Bombay. Traveling with a projector and a screen, Korde and Khan show the film at their own expense in communities savaged by distrust and prejudice. The two pairs of filmmakers join forces in this documentary to spread their important message even further.
Naata is the second in a series on the people and the city of Mumbai. It is a sequel to Saacha
(The Loom), 2001.
thinking like a social scientist lunchtime lecture series
05-Nov-2008, 13:05-14:00, U8, Tower 1, LSE
Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Mary Kaldor
Speaker: Mary Kaldor
In this lunchtime series lectures, a selection of LSE’s academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.
Mary Kaldor is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Kaldor is also affiliated with the Development Studies Institute at LSE. She previously worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the Science Policy Research Unit and the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex. Her books include The Baroque Arsenal (1982) The Imaginary War (1990) New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (1999) Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003). She was a founder member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly, and a member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis, established by the Swedish Prime Minister and chaired by Richard Goldstone, which published the Kosovo Report (Oxford: OUP) in autumn 2000. Mary Kaldor was also convenor of the study group on European Security Capabilities established at the request of Javier Solana, which produced the Barcelona report, 'A Human Security Doctrine for Europe' and in 2007 the follow-up report, A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the Human Security Study Group.
public lecture
04-Nov-2008, 18:45-20:15, New Theatre, LSE
Trends in war, peace and arms? SIPRI Yearbook 2008: international security, regional conflict, armament and disarmament in review
Speaker: Bates Gill
Respondents: Lord Malloch-Brown, Sam Perlo-Freeman
Chair: Mary Kaldor
The panel will examine the major findings of this year’s SIPRI Yearbook, the iconic compendium of analysis and information on international security, regional conflict, armament and disarmament.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent International Institute for research in to problems of peace and conflict, especially those of arms control and disarmament. SIPRI was established in 19966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. The SIPRI yearbook was first published in 1969 and is now in its 39th edition. SIPRI Yearbook 2008 presents a combination of original data in areas such as world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production, nuclear forces, major armed conflicts, peace and international security. The yearbook is written by both SIPRI researchers and invited outside experts. .
Bates Gill is the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Before he came to SIPRI Dr Gill had the position of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution, where he was the inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has consulted for a number of multinational corporations and government agencies.
Mark Malloch Brown was appointed the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN in June 2007 and attends meetings of the Cabinet. He served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from April to December 2006. Before this, from January 2005, he had been the Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet. From July 1999 until August 2005 he was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. After stepping down from the UN, he briefly took up the role of Vice Chairman of Soros Fund Management. Before the UN, he worked at the World Bank, joining in 1994 as Director of External Affairs and subsequently serving as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs from 1996 to 1999
Sam Perlo-Freeman is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Production Project.
public lecture
03-Nov-2008, 18:30-20:00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
European Integration of Bosnia-Herzegovina: the challenges ahead
Speaker: Miroslav Lajčákl
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Confrontational domestic politics and vulnerability to events in neighbouring countries makes progress difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Will the incentive of eventual European Union membership change anything?
Dr Miroslav Lajčák is a high representative and EU special representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
research seminar series 2008/9
04-Nov-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Face of Poverty in Serbia, Household Strategies to Cope With it and State Policy to Combat it
Speaker: Marija Babovic
After a decade of socio-economic crisis, deconstruction of basic social institutions and impoverishment of the majority of the population, in 2000 Serbian society started reforms, and renewed growth despite continuous political instability. Marija Babovic explores who are poor and what are the features of poverty in a changing social context, from the perspective of LSMS longitudinal data. Applying analytical approach of households’ economic strategies, she elaborates dynamics of adaptation to transforming context and coping with (risks of) poverty. Finally, reflecting on state policy to combat poverty, she argues necessity of shift in key policy focus from poverty reduction to sustainable development, while preserving poverty reduction, and social inclusion as significant parts of social cohesion pillar of SD strategy.
Dr Marija Babovic is an LSE/OSI visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She is Assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, member of The Institute for Sociological Research, consultant of UNDP and other international organizations in Serbia. She was member of expert teams responsible for drafting two important strategies in Serbia: Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Strategy for Sustainable Development.
research seminar series 2008/9
28-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Civil Society, Communication and Iran
Speaker: Maximillian Hänska-Ahy
Maximillian Hänska-Ahy explores the relationship between the public sphere as the (heuristic) space for public will formation, civil society and forms of governance. He argues that exploring these relationships is interesting on two counts:
1.) A better understanding of the domains of public opinions formation can lend theoretical traction to our thought on the contemporary nature of political space and national communities.
2.) Contextualising the public sphere in relation to a particular socio-institutional context (rather than assuming a Habermasian ideal type) can add edifying caveats to our understanding of the role of media development in the promotion of good governance.
Currently at an early stage of his research, the proposed case study explores practitioner-conceptions of public communication from an Iranian local and exile perspective.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
22-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Politics of Climate Change
Speaker: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens
Chair: Professor David Held
There is a clear link between global warming and increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The challenge is a collective global response for action before it is too late.
Anthony Giddens is professor emeritus of sociology at LSE and former School director.
research seminar series 2008/9
21-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
From the Cold War to the War on Terror: Gulf Security in a Changing World
Speaker: Kristian Ulrichsen
Three major inter-state wars in the Gulf in the past three decades demonstrate that the region has not benefited from improved security following the ending of the Cold War. Indeed the US-led declaration of a ‘War on Terror’ in 2001 thrust the region back into the cockpit of conflict and instability, amid lingering fears that military strikes on Iran could lead to a fourth major war since 1980. Nevertheless, processes of political reform and economic liberalisation are underway at varying speeds in each of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and a range of new security challenges have emerged, requiring new responses from regional and international policy-makers.
This paper will argue that the concept of ‘Gulf security’ is evolving in response to these new challenges which link internal security to external stability and international events in the region. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of climate change, rapidly rising populations and the youth bulge, structural economic deficiencies and spiralling inflation, and progressive state failure in Yemen require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear proliferation and trans-national terrorism remain strong, these new challenges to Gulf security have the potential to strike at the heart of the social contract and redistributive mechanisms that bind state and society in the Arab oil monarchies.
This paper will examine the relationship between ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ security challenges and the ongoing processes of political reform and economic liberalisation and diversification in the Gulf. It will explore how regimes are anticipating and reacting to the shifting security paradigm, and contextualise these changes within the broader political, economic, social and demographic framework. It will argue that a holistic approach to security is necessary for regimes to renew their sources of legitimacy in a globalising world.
Kristian Ulrichsen is a Post-doctoral
Research Fellow on the Kuwait Research Programme on
Development, Governance and Globalisation in the
Gulf States.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
20-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Global Financial Crisis
Will Hutton and Martin Wolf in conversation with David Held
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Will Hutton is Chief Executive of the Work Foundation. Prior, he spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Observer and continues to write a weekly column for the paper. Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.
The videocast of the event is available on LSE's website.
ralph miliband lecture series 2008/9
13-Oct-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Challenge of Climate Change
Speaker: Sir David King
Chair: David Held
Without a new deal between rich and poor countries, climate change will continue to accelerate. How can this be tackled?
David King, former chief scientific adviser to the government, is director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University.
research seminar series 2008/9
14-Oct-2008, 13:00-14:00, New
Academic Building 1.15, LSE
The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgical Culture
Speaker: Anthony Elliott
From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage, and now on a global scale.
This paper considers the global rise of cosmetic surgery, and situates the economy of the makeover industries in the context of recent debates on globalization. Elliott argues that cosmetic surgical culturehas become increasingly global in our own time as a result of major institutional changes dominating public life in Western societies. He further contends that personal vulnerabilities have reached the point where people turn to surgical culture in an effort to reinvent themselves and improve their life prospects.
Anthony Elliott was appointed Professor of Sociology at Flinders University in 2006, where he has also served as Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He also holds a Visiting Research Professorship in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, UK. He was formerly Chair of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and prior to that Foundation Director of the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. Professor Elliott's writings have been translated into seventeen languages. He has lectured at about one hundred academic institutions worldwide.
His recent books include with Charles Lemert THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM (2006), THE CONTEMPORARY BAUMAN (2007), MAKING THE CUT: HOW COSMETIC SURGERY IS TRANSFORMING OUR LIVES (2008), with Paul Du Gay IDENTITY IN QUESTION (2008) and CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION (2008).
public lecture
Monday, 12-May-2008,
18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
McMafia: Crime without frontiers
Speaker: Misha Glenny
Chair: Mary Kaldor
International journalist Misha Glenny talks about his investigation into the world of organised crime. He reveals how conventional policing cannot cope with globalised crime which is corrupting governments and fuelling human rights abuses and suffering.
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public lecture
Thursday, 08-May-2008, 18:00-20:00,
G108, LSE
Addressing the Asymmetry of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict through the Current Negotiations
Speaker: Fuad Bateh
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Mr Fuad Bateh is Legal Advisor on Water and Environment in the Negotiations Support Unit, the DFID-funded project to support Palestinian negotiators. Mr Bateh’s work with the World's Bank International and Environmental Law Unit included support of Global Environment Facility grants and advising on the application of the World's Bank Environmental and Social (Safeguard) Operational Policies. Since joining the NSU, he has provided legal advice on the Palestinian Permanent Status issues on water and environment, and specifically provides guidance to the Palestinian delegation in the Technical Steering Committee in the processing of the Red Sea- Dead Sea studies program. His talk – on the 60th anniversary of the nakba and the creation of the Israeli state – will highlight the asymmetric allocation of waters that Palestinians and Israelis share, and present the Palestinian positive-sum proposal for ending the conflict.
ralph miliband lecture
Wednesday, 07-May-2008, 18:30-20:00
Green Peace: Energy, Europe and the Global Order
Speaker: Rt Hon David Miliband
Chair: David Held
David Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in June 2007.
Read a transcript of the lecture
public debate
Tuesday, 29-April-2008, Old
Theatre, LSE
The New Politics of Identity
Speakers: Professor Lord Bikhu Parekh, David Goodhart, Professor John Keane
Chair: Professor Lord Tony Giddens
The panel will discuss Bhikhu Parekh’s new book, A New Politics of Identity (Palgrave, March 2008) covering the impact of globalisation on ethnic, religious and national identities.
David Goodhart is editor of Prospect. John Keane is professor of politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. Bhikhu Parekh is professor of political philosophy, University of Westminster.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket
required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Mar-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Towards a Global Media Ethics
Speaker: Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book is Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave 2007, with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham).
public seminar
28-Feb-2008, 14:00-16:00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Hamas and Fatah, Together or Apart?
Speaker: Sari Nusseibeh
Sari Nusseibeh Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and President of
Al- Quds University, East Jerusalem (1995-
present).
Born Damascus, 1949, MA Oxon, PhD Harvard,
1978). Professor of philosophy at Birzeit University
on the West Bank (’78-’91). Member of Steering
Committee to the Madrid Negotiations (’91-’93).
Co-founder, Fatah Higher Committee in the
Occupied Territories. Founder of HASHD
(Palestinian Campaign for Peace and Democracy
–Nusseibeh/Ayalon:2003-2005). Selected (October 2005) as one of the 100 World
Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect
Magazines. Recipient of several prizes and awards, including, (2004),cowinner
of the Prima Catalunya Prize with Israeli writer Amos Oz. Author of
several books and articles in philosophy and politics, including, in 1991, No
Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(with Israeli co-author Mark Heller), and, in 1995, “On The Limits of Freedom”
(Arabic, London). Lectured widely in Europe and the United States, and was
Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2004-05).
Served briefly as the PLO's representative in East Jerusalem in 2001, and
was controversially outspoken against suicide-attacks and the use of violence,
calling for an immediate resolution of final-status issues (Jerusalem, refugees,
settlements), as a prerequisite for a successful Road-Map initiative.
Nusseibeh's recent book "Once upon a Country: a Palestinian Life" an
Autobiography (written with Anthony David; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
publishers; New York) has received numerous positive reviews; currently
Nussiebeh is working on the moral underpinnings of a future Palestinian
State (What's A Palestinian State Worth?) which is excepted to be published
next year by Harvard University Press.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2007/8
26-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Representing Children’s Interests in Global Governance
Speaker: Anna Holzscheiter
Anna Holzscheiter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Change & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
public lecture
25-Feb-2008, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The $3 Trillion War: the true cost of the war in Iraq
Speaker: Joseph E Stiglitz
Discussant: Mary Kaldor
Chair: David Held
This event marks the launch of Professor Stiglitz's new book
The $3 Trillion War (Allen Lane, February 2007). This new book is a devastating rekoning of the true cost of the Iraq war.
Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor of the Columbia Business School. Previous positions he has held include Chief Economist at the World Bank and Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Professor Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. For more information see the LSE Events site:
research seminar series 2007/8
19-Feb-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Global Urbanity, War and the Securitisation of the 21st Century City
Speaker: Martin Coward
Marin Coward is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on the nexus of identity, violence and territory. Currently he is investigating the manner in which this nexus is exhibited in the contemporary relationship between the city and war.
public lecture
18-Feb-2008, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance: enlarging democracy or confirming hegemony?
Speaker: Jan Aart Scholte
Chair: Marlies Glasius
Professor Scholte examines whether, as is often supposed, civil society activism is an answer to shortfalls of democratic accountability in global governance.
Jan Aart Scholte is centennial professor at the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, LSE.
public lecture
15-Feb-2008, 18:00-19:30, Old Theatre, LSE
Creating a World Without Poverty: how social business can transform our lives
Speaker: Muhammad Yunus
Chair: Mary Kaldor
Professor Yunus will outline his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more human world – and tell the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. This event marks the launch of his new book Creating a World Without Poverty: how social business can transform our lives.
Muhammad Yunus is founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. For more information see the LSE Events site:
international conference
1-2-Feb-2008, LSE
Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance in association with the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) at the LSE and Free University of Amsterdam will host an international conference titled, ‘Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond’.
The objective of this conference is to discuss and highlight the significance of peace movements during the Cold War era in order to draw conclusions for the analysis of contemporary socio-political reality and the evaluation and resolution of its conflicts and to encourage research and teaching on the history of peace movements. Traditional interpretations of the Cold War focus on nation-states and governments. An examination of the role and impact of citizen movements in both East and West is important not only for the depth it provides to the historical records of the Cold War, but also because it exposes the impact and significance of civil society in the resolution of conflicts more generally. It challenges the belief in the utility of ‘traditional’ military buildups and coercive pressure.
research seminar series 2007/8
15-Jan-2008, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Rise and Fall of Transnational Civil Society: The Evolution of INGOs since 1839
Speaker: Thomas Davies
Thomas Davies is Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London, and Research Associate of the University of Oxford's project on 'Civil Resistance and Power Politics'. His first book, The Possibilities of Transnational Activism, was published in October 2007.
research seminar series 2007/8
11-Dec-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Revolution, Revolutionaries and Politics in Bihar
Speaker: Ashwani Kumar
Dr Kumar was born and brought up in the State of Bihar in India, did his MA and MPhil at the University of Delhi. After a brief stint of college teaching in Delhi, he went on to obtain a PhD in Political Science from University of Oklahoma (US). Currently he is Associate Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) and is also associated with Global Governance Research network at German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn. He has published articles and book chapters on political theory, politics in India, and Mahatma Gandhi. His book, Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar is forthcoming from Anthem Press (London).
research seminar series 2007/8
04-Dec-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Hiroshima the first global event
Speaker: Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is a sociologist, Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales and has been Visiting Professor in Roehampton, Cambridge, the LSE, Munich and the State University of New York. His books include Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory, Do Organizations Have Feelings?, Sociology: the Basics, and the prize-winning The Global Age. He was founder editor of the Journal International Sociology, President of the British Sociological Association and Chair of the Sociology Panel for the British universities Research Assessment Exercise. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a co-editor of Global Civil Society, 2006/7.
research seminar series 2007/8
27-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The International Criminal Court’s investigation in the Central African Republic: Expectations of civil society and victims
Speaker: Marlies Glasius
Marlies Glasius is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a lecturer at LSE's Government Department.
State Weakness in the Balkans: Context, Comparison and Implications
A conference organised by the Centre for the Study
of Global Governance.
Read the programme
panel debate
22-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, Hong
Kong Theatre, LSE
Can Democracy be bought? Democracy Promotion after 1989
Speakers: Daniele Archibugi, Armine Ishkanian, Iain King
Chair: Mary Kaldor
This debate will explore the success of democracy promotion efforts around the world and the impact and implications of foreign support on local processes of democratisation
More about the Global Civil Society 2007/8 Yearbook
panel debate
21-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, New Theatre, LSE
Frivolous entertainment or potent tool of communication? The role of cartoons and graphic novels in a global age
Speakers: Steve Bell, Anita O'Brien and Bryan Talbot
Chair: Marlies Glasius
In an interconnected world cartoons represent an increasingly significant political phenomenon. But their importance in the study of global civil society is easily overlooked. To what extent do cartoons influence people’s political priorities? What happens in the space between artistic intention and audience interpretation? To what extent can cartooning challenge power holders, particularly in illiberal regimes? Speakers include Steve Bell, cartoonist, Anita O'Brien, curator of the Cartoon Museum in London, and Bryan Talbot, graphic novelist and author of
The Tale of One Bad Rat.
More about the Global Civil Society 2007/8 Yearbook
research seminar series 2007/8
20-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Constructing Global Democracy
Speaker: Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies
and Co-Director
of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University
Warwick and Centennial Professor at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Professor Scholte is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005, 2nd ed.). His book Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity Press) is forthcoming in 2008.
panel discussion
19-Nov-2007, 16:30-18:00, Room
Y002, LSE
A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the
Human Security Study Group
A European Way of Security.
Lessons learned from EU missions
Speakers: Mary Kaldor, Denisa
Kostovicova, Mary Martin, Yahia Said
On 8 November 2007 the Human Security Study Group, under the direction of Professor Mary Kaldor, professor of global governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE, launched its report A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the Human
Security Study Group in the presence of the EU High Representative Javier Solana in Madrid. The report is based on a year-long review of ESDP and human security, undertaken at the request of the 2006 Finnish presidency of the European Union.
This panel discussions presents findings from the
evaluation of EU missions in Kosovo, Democratic
Republic of Congo and the Middle East
ralph miliband lecture series 2007/8
13-Nov-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Past, Present and Future of Oil
Speaker: Lord John Browne
Chair: David Held
Based on his experience as former chief executive of BP, Lord Browne will share his thoughts about the future of oil, as it relates to its past and its present.
Lord Browne is a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
research seminar series 2007/8
13-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Creative Commons - A Global Civil Society Movement or just a suite of licenses?
Speaker: Frances Pinter
Dr. Frances Pinter currently works in the area of Intellectual Property
Rights and has been a consultant to Creative Commons. She was previously
Publishing Director for the Soros Foundation Network and was the founder of
Pinter Publishers. In 2000/01 she was a visiting fellow at LSE¹s Centre for
Civil Society. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Global Civil Society
Yearbook and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance.
research seminar series 2007/8
06-Nov-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Can development prevent conflict: lessons learned from Western Balkans and the CIS, recommendations for a wider Europe"
Speaker: Rastislav Vrbensky
Rastislav Vrbensky works for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is currently on sabbatical with the Centre of the Study of Global Governance of LSE as a visiting fellow. He has been the Assistant Director of UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava and last three years the Deputy Resident Representative in UNDP Serbia. In this capacity, he has led the design and implementation of one of the largest UN assistance programmes in Western Balkans. His research interest is particularly focused on development and security in transitional economies and post-totalitarian societies.
research seminar series 2007/8
30-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
The Strategy of Terrorism
Speaker: Peter R. Neumann
Peter R. Neumann is Director of the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London, and a member of the Club de Madrid's expert advisory committee. He was Academic Director of the Club de Madrid's International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in Madrid in March 2005, and served as senior advisor to the National Policy Forum on Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose in the United States in 2005.
public lecture
29-Oct-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Role of Inter-governmental, State and Non-governmental Players in Conflict Resolution
Speaker: Marti Ahtisaari
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
This lecture will draw attention to the challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder co-operation in conflict resolution. The role of inter-governmental, state and non-governmental players in conflict resolution. Mr. Ahtisaari will draw attention to both challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder co-operation in conflict resolution. Mr. Ahtisaari's lecture is based on his extensive experience as a peace mediator, civil servant and board member of a number of non-governmental organisations.
Mr. Martti Ahtisaari has been involved with the UN since 1977 in a variety of tasks dealing among others with Namibia, Iraq, Horn of Africa and the Balkans. In addition he was facilitating a peace process between the Government of Indonesia and Free Aceh Movement, and has been involved in international tasks concerning Central Asia, Northern Ireland and Austria. Mr. Ahtisaari is active in a number of non-governmental organisations (Crisis Management Initiative, InterPeace, East-West Institute, Balkan Children and Youth Foundation). Martti Ahtisaari was the President of Finland between the years of 1994 and 2000.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
research seminar series 2007/8
23-Oct-2007, 13:00-14:00, M101, LSE
Human Security Analysis of the Ahtisaari Approach to Kosovo's Final Status
Speaker: Denisa Kostovicova
Denisa Kostovicova is a Lecturer at the Government Department and Development Studies Institute and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the LSE. Her research interests and the areas in which she has published include nationalism and democratisation in the global age, post-conflict reconstruction and security, and European integration of Western Balkans.
research seminar series 2007/8
18-Oct-2007, 11:00-12:00, Z225, LSE
The Impact of Commercialising Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Case of Landmine Clearance in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan
Speaker: Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton has recently returned from fieldwork researching foreign aid for demining in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan for his PhD in government at the LSE. Prior to becoming a graduate student he worked in humanitarian and development operations in ten countries, including Bosnia and Iraq. He has a MSc in development studies (research) from the LSE.
book launch
10-Oct-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Global Civil Society 2007/8: Communicative Power and Democracy
Speakers: Mary Kaldor, Nick Couldry, Abdul-Rehman Malik, James Deane
Chair: Isabel Hilton
This panel debate will explore how activists and organisations are using new communications technologies to create spaces for debate, to influence decisions that affect ordinary people’s lives and to press for greater democracy. The speakers are Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at LSE, Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, Q-News contributing Editor, Abdul-Rehman Malik, and James Deane, Head of Policy Development at the BBC World Service Trust. Isabel Hilton, Editor of chinadialogue.net will chair the discussion.
This panel debate marks the launch of Global Civil Society 2007/8, London: Sage.
Voices of Global Civil Society: Cartoonists, Comic Strip Artists and Graphic Novelists
Following the Yearbook launch panel discussion, there will be an invite-only reception and opening of the exhibition, Voices of Global Civil Society: Cartoonists, Comic Strip Artists and Graphic Novelists, in the Atrium, the Old Building, LSE. If you would like to attend this reception, which takes place 8-9.30pm on 10 October, please email f.c.holland@lse.ac.uk for a ticket – places are limited and issued on a first come first served basis.
public debate - book launch
09-Oct-2007, 17:30-19:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Resource Curse
Speakers: Joseph C Bell, Terry Lynn Karl, Karin Lissakers, George Soros
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
For the vast majority of people in most resource-rich countries, natural wealth does not translate into prosperity. Instead it often leads to environmental and economic devastation, and hampers democratic reform. According to the World Bank, about 60 developing or transition countries are plagued by this resource curse, largely dependent on oil, mining or gas for revenues. A groundbreaking new guide to managing resource wealth, Escaping the Resource Curse is aimed at improving the livelihood of millions of people affected by this problem. The book connects the academic, policymaker and activist communities by providing practical recommendations for ending the resource curse. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
George Soros is Chairman of the Open Society Institute; Terry Lynn Karl is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Joseph C. Bell is Senior partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson; Mary Kaldor is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance LSE and Karin Lissakers is Director of the Revenue Watch Institute.
This panel debate marks the launch of a new book entitled "Escaping the Resource Curse," edited by Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz, Published by Columbia University Press.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. See the LSE website for further information.
public debate
04-July-2007, Peacock Theatre, LSE
Energy Crisis: Resource Scarcity, Oil Wars, and Climate Change
Speakers: Professor Mary Kaldor, Yahia Said, George Soros and Professor Sir Nicholas Stern
Chair: Howard Davies
This event seeks to encourage a more holistic approach towards thinking about energy security, and will mark the launch of the publication Oil Wars, edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Karl and Yahia Said.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Yahia Said is research fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE and head of the Middle East Revenue Watch Programme, Open Society Institute. George Soros is chairman of the Open Society Institute. Professor Sir Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government at LSE.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required.
See the LSE site for more information.
interdisciplinary workshop
17/18-June-2007, LSE
Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) will host a 2 day interdisciplinary workshop which aims to bring together 15-20 researchers from all academic discourses researching collective memory and collective knowledge in a ‘global age’. The workshop will provide an opportunity for an exciting and challenging discussion of the issue that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
seminar and book launch
22-May-2007, 17:30-19:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions
Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions London: Sage.
Anheier, Helmut K. and Yudhushthir Raj Isar (eds) (2007)
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Cultures and Globalization is a new book series that highlights contemporary cultural changes and their implications and aims to encourage debate about the relationship between culture and globalization. Each volume also includes an innovative presentation of indicator suites on cultures and globalization. The inaugural theme in 2007 will be Conflicts and Tensions.
This seminar brings together scholars from different disciplines to address culture in a globalizing world.
Chair:
Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Emeritus, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
Presenters:
Helmut K. Anheier, Director, Centre for Civil Society, UCLA; Centennial Professor, LSE
Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris
Panelists:
Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
Henrietta Moore, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director Culture and Globalization Programme, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. A reception in the Atrium will follow the seminar at 7pm.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
2006/7
22-May-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
The Challenge of Affluence: self-control, well-being and future shock
Speaker: Professor Avner Offer
Chair: Professor David Held
Affluence breeds impatience, and impatience undermines well-being. The flow of new rewards can undermine the capacity to enjoy them. When choice is myopic, planning for the future is intractable. Instead of calculation, we rely on proven commitment devices like education and politics which are undermined by novelty. Future global shocks like energy depletion and climate change present dilemmas of this kind.
Avner Offer is Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and author of The Challenge of Affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
lunchtime discussion
22-May-2007, 1:00-2:30pm, M101, LSE
Democracy as Translation: The Global Social Justice Movement
Speaker: Nicole Doerr
Nicole Doerr is PhD Candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
2006/7
08-May-2007, 13:00-14:30, Old Theatre, LSE
The Hydrogen Economy: preparing the world for a new energy era and the third industrial revolution
Speaker: Jeremy Rifkin
Chair: Professor David Held
This lecture critically examines the fossil fuel era and its consequences for industrial civilisation. It explores the nexus of politics, society and business and the massive potential for industry and capital investment. It also considers the future of renewable energy and the hydrogen economy, and how an integrated infrastructure and energy regime can be created in Europe.
Jeremy Rifkin is founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington DC. He is an economist, writer and activist
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
public debate at the institute of contemporary arts (ICA), london
15-Mar-2007, 7pm, ICA, London
Modern Erotics and the quest for intimacy
Professor Moore will be taking part in an debate at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on Thursday 15 March, 7pm, on Modern Erotics and the quest for intimacy .
Today everyone seems subject to the demand to enjoy, to make love and sex into a project that succeeds. But the demand that sexual relations should be at the basis both of self-understanding and self-realisation often puts our intimate lives under particular pressure. Psychoanalysts Susie Orbach and Darian Leader, anthropologist Henrietta Moore and psychoanalytic theorist Renata Salecl discuss contemporary sexualities and their uneasy relationship to love, fantasy and intimacy.
research seminar series 2006/7
13-Mar-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Culture and Politics
Speaker: Henrietta Moore
Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Previously she was LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999. She has written and lectured on Social Theory, Epistemology, Feminist Theory, Anthropology, Gender, Space, Development and Social Enterprise.
Ralph Miliband lecture series
7-Mar-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Human Security: a debate
Speaker: Professor Michael Clarke, Professor Mary Kaldor
Chair: Professor David Held
Two of the most important voices in the UK debate questions of defence and human security, focusing on terrorism, WMD, and how one can address these threats.
Michael Clarke is director of the Centre for Defence Studies and the International Policy Institute at King’s College, and senior specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Committee. Mary Kaldor is director of LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance and was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
research seminar series 2006/7
06-Mar-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Can Global Europe be a Social Europe?
Speaker: Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond is Director of the international think-tank Policy Network and a Visiting Fellow at LSE. He is also an adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality. He is a former Special Adviser in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit.
research seminar series 2006/7
27-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Britannia Pacificatrix: Constructing ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ during the First World War in Britain
Speaker: Slobodan G. Markovich
Slobodan G. Markovich is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
20-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
The Concept of Territory in a Global Era
Speaker: Mohammad Raoof Heidary Far
Mohammad Raoof Heidary Far is a PhD Candidate at the University of Tehran and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
13-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Russian Civil Society and Human Rights in the Military
Speaker: Margot Light and Andrey Kuvshinov
Margot Light is Programme Director of the Human Rights in the Russian Military project and Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Global Governance, LSE. Andrey Kuvshinov is Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE, and former Chairman of the Siberian Human Rights Network (Russia).
research seminar series 2006/7
06-Feb-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Neocolonialism or Human Security? The European Union in Congo
Speaker: Mary Martin
Mary Martin is Research Fellow and co-ordinator of CSGG’s Study Group on Human Security
public debate
1-Feb-2007, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Do global and regional connections help or
hinder democracy?
Speakers:
Miguel Darcy
de Oliveira,
David Chandler, Shami Chakrabati,
Monroe Price,Hosam El Sokkari
Chair: Mary Kaldor
A diverse panel of speakers will discuss how global
civil society is using different forms of communication
to spread democracy and promote human rights around the
world. New spaces for debate – on web-based forums,
alternative media, satellite television and other
channels of communication – have been created. But to
what extent do these realms enable greater citizen
engagement in decision-making? How important are global
or regional links among civil society organisations and
individuals in catalysing or deepening democracy? Should
civil society actors seek to influence debates and
democracy in other countries?
The speakers:
Hosam El Sokkari, Head of the BBC Arabic service
Miguel Darcy de Oliveira, Director, Institute for Cultural Action
David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
Shami Chakrabati, Director, Liberty
Monroe Price, Director, Project for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania
research seminar series 2006/7
30-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Moving Forward: Personal and Social Goals of Serbian Youth
Speaker: Nebojsa Petrovic
Nebojsa Petrovic is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
research seminar series 2006/7
23-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, D002, LSE
Options for Iraq
Speaker: Yahia Said
Yahia Said is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. A frequent traveller to Iraq for research and outreach purposes, he has recently returned from a contract advising the United Nations on options for Iraq. Yahia’s insights into the economics, politics and culture of the Middle East honed over years of involvement, spans periods both before and after conflicts and regime change.
research seminar series 2006/7
16-Jan-2007, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
The Political Situation in Lebanon and Human Security
Speaker: Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is Professor for Global GOvernance and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
Akiva Eldar is a Haaretz senior columnist and former Haaretz Washington correspondent. Akiva Eldar has formerly been Track 2 negotiator and has recently written the book Settlements and Settlers.
Stephanie Koury is a Palestinian lawyer now with the Sir Joseph Hotung law programme at SOAS. She has formerly been with the Palestinian Authority team in a Separation Wall case at International Court of Justice, with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Negotiation Support Unit, and has been a Track 2 negotiator.
The event is organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians. It is hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
ralph miliband lecture series 2006/7
05-Dec-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Governing Disease: Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Speakers: Professor Tony Barnett, Professor Alan Whiteside
Infectious disease epidemics are above all social events. With its massive death rates and long term effects, HIV/AIDS poses enormous challenges to governments. Its length and depth of impact raises even greater challenges. This lecture looks at how we govern infectious disease nationally and internationally in a rapidly shrinking world?
Professor Tony Barnett is professorial research fellow in the Development Studies Institute. In 2003 he was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute Lucy Mair Medal in recognition of his contribution to practical anthropology. Alan Whitehead is director of director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2003 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as one of the commissioners on the Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis
research seminar series 2006/7
28-Nov-2006, 13.00-14.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Multiethnic Democracy: Dilemmas of Macedonian-Albanian Integration
Speaker: Petar Atanasov
Dr Petar Atanasov is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE. He is the Head of Postgraduate Studies in Sociology at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Legal Research in Skopje, Macedonia.
ralph miliband lecture series 2006/7
20-Nov-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Climate Change: Global Solutions for an International Problem
Speaker: Professor Sir David King
Chair: Professor David Held
The earth is heating up. Manifestations of this trend are: heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather, ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding, glaciers melting, arctic and Antarctic warming. The lecture will explore the nature and origins of these phenomena and will look for political solutions both inside and outside the domain of national states.
Professor Sir David King is chief scientific adviser to the UK government and head of the Office of Science and Technology. He is a professor of chemistry at University of Cambridge.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis
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seminar series 2006/7
7-Nov-2006, 13.00-14.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Kosovo: The Final Status Decision and Its Pitfalls
Speaker: Denisa Kostovicova
Dr Denisa Kostovicova is Lecturer at the Department of Government and DESTIN at LSE. Her most recent publication is Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (London: Routledge, 2005).
conference
2/3-Nov-2006, Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia
Global Framing of Democracy
International Perspectives on Civil Society, Communications, Globalization and Democracy
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science will be hosting a conference on global civil society, communication and democracy on 2-3 November 2006, at the University of Pennsylvania.
This event, which will bring together a select group of academics, civil society practitioners and journalists from diverse regions of the world, will stimulate discussion and analysis of the complex relationships between global civil society, communications, and the process of democracy.
ralph miliband lecture series 2006/7
1-Nov-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Reframing Global Governance: apocalypse soon, or reform!
Speaker: Professor David Held
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
David Held will explore one of the greatest paradoxes of our time: that is, that the challenges we face are increasingly global in their form and scope and yet our political capacity is weak and diminishing. The lecture explores both the advantages globalisation has brought and the serious structural vulnerability it has created.
David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at LSE and co-director of LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come first served basis
research
seminar series 2006/7
10-Oct-2006, 13.00-14.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Framing the Globe, a Problem for Politics and Social
Science
Speaker: Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is visiting fellow at LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
He is the author of The Global Age: State and
Society Beyond Modernity (Polity).
Global Civil Society 2006/7 Yearbook launch
03-Oct-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Delegitimising Violence in a Global Era: The
Prospects for Pre-Emptive Civility
Speakers: Martin Albrow, Heba Raouf Ezzat, Mary
Kaldor, Tariq Ramadan
War and violence is high on the political agenda –
issues that global civil society cannot evade and is
grappling with. What is the relationship between civil
society and violence? Is it ever justified for non-state
actors to use violence? If so, can moral and legal
limits be imposed? This discussion marks the launch of Global Civil Society 2006-07, the sixth in the series, which engages in a unique dialogue that crosses political, cultural and religious boundaries.
Martin Albrow is visiting fellow at LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Heba Raouf Ezzat is a lecturer at the Centre for Political Research and Studies, Cairo University. Mary Kaldor is director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Tariq Ramadan is visiting professor at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, and president of the European Muslim Network.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
workshop
23-June-2006, 14:30, Civicus, Glasgow
Civicus World Assembly 2006
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance presents a workshop at this year's Civicus World Assembly.
The workshop will explore the nature and meaning of globalisation in order to understand ‘global civil society.’ Participants will be encouraged to consider this ambiguous, contested and controversial idea. The aim will be to stimulate a diversity of perspectives and some new understandings. This session will also introduce the Global Civil Society Yearbook.
public discussion
04-July-2006, 18.30, Peacock Theatre, LSE
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
Speaker: George Soros
Discussants: Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Lord Giddens, Professor David Held and Professor Mary Kaldor
Rather than a conventional reception or lecture to launch his newest
book, George Soros will engage in an on-stage dialogue with a panel of
important and outspoken thinkers, writers and academicians to discuss
the book's central theses. This panel includes Professor Lord Giddens,
Professor Mary Kaldor and Professor David Held of the Centre for the
Study of Global Governance, as well as Shami Chakrabarti, Director of
Liberty, one of the UK's leading human rights and civil liberties
organisations.
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC. He was born in
Budapest in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist
Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He then settled in the United
States, where he accumulated a large fortune through an international
investment fund he founded and managed. Mr Soros has been active as a
philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black
students attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. He has
established a network of philanthropic organisations active in more than
50 countries around the world. These organisations are dedicated to
promoting the values of democracy and an open society. The foundation
network spends about $400 million annually. Mr Soros is the author of
nine books, including most recently 'The Age of Fallibility:
Consequences of the War on Terror'. His articles and essays on politics,
society, and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and
magazines around the world.
TICKET INFORMATION
This lecture is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One
ticket per person can be requested from Thursday 15 June at 10AM.
Members of the public, LSE staff and alumni can request one ticket via
the online ticket request form which will be live from 10.00am on
Thursday 15 June via the following weblink:
LSE students are able to collect one ticket from the LSESU reception,
located on the ground floor of the East Building from 10.00am on
Thursday 15 June. For further information please email events@lse.ac.uk.
ralph miliband lecture series
13-June-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Keeping Markets in their Place: markets and morals in a global age
Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel
Chair: Professor David Held
Michael Sandel is professor of government at Harvard University. His most recent book is Public Philosophy: essays on morality in politics.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
book launch
22 May 2006, 17:30, Senior Dining Room, Old Building, LSE
Divided By Democracy
Speakers: Aitzaz Ahsan and Professor Lord Meghnad Desai
The second book in the Cross-border Talks series examines why India is a democracy while Pakistan is not.
Meghnad Desai identifies the revolutionary decision of the Constituent Assembly to adopt universal adult franchise as the key to the survival of democracy in India. The overwhelming desire of the leaders of the independence movement, many of whom were educated in England, was for a Westminster-style democracy. The adoption of this model led to demands for inclusion from lower and backward castes and Dalits, and today Indian democracy is a heady and vigorous mix of ethnic and immigrant groups, class cleavages as well as rural/urban and North/South divisions.
Aitzaz Ahsan argues that at Partition, while India had a strong middle class and political structure and a subordinated civil and military bureaucracy, in Pakistan it was the opposite. It inherited a strong feudal class, an insignificant bourgeoisie and an entrenched civil and military bureaucracy. These vested interests have never relinquished their control over the country, and have in the process choked the spirit of democracy there.
Meghnad Desai is an emeritus professor of economics at LSE and is an active member of the British Labour Party.
Aitzaz Ahsan is a member of the Pakistan People's Party and has served as minister of law, justice, interior and education in the federal government between 1988 and 1993. He is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
ralph miliband lecture series
03-May-2006, 18.30, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Writing on the Wall: China’s rise in the global era
Speaker: Will Hutton
Chair: Professor David Held
China is a giant with feet of clay. The easy part of the reform programme has happened and it gets more difficult from now on. The Communist Party meanwhile is suffering a crisis of identity and legitimacy. What is the outlook for China, Asia and the world as the party wrestles with China’s economic and social problems?
Will Hutton is chief executive of The Work Foundation and a weekly columnist for The Observer.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
3rd LSE-Imperial College Environmental Science and Policy Lecture
26-April-2006, 18.00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Walking on Water: The Long Way to Peace in the Middle East
Speakers: Pavel Seifter, CsGG and Fadia Daibes-Murad, International Water Expert
The Energy, Water and Environment Community (EWEc) project is based on the belief that political tension in the Middle East can be eased by a new focus on the three interrelated issues of energy, water and environment. The idea would be to build transboundary regimes and structures of management, using renewable energies and developing new sources of water. A process of cooperation and integration around this cluster of shared commons would offer a shift from a traditionally political and security based perception of most of the regional problems to a more pragmatic approach.
More about the EWEc project
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seminar series 2005/6
14-Mar-2006, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
BoP Sustainability, Optimal Exchange Rate and the Monetary Policy Mix in Serbia
Speaker: Marko Malovic, Assistant-Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade
public debate
15-Mar-2006, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Closing Pandora's Box: The Prospect for National Reconciliation in Iraq
Speakers: Dr Isam Al-rawi, Sundus Abbas and Salah Mohammad
Chair: Yahia Said
Since the recent destruction of the Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq has been teetering on the brink of civil war. Militias, insurgents, death squads, and armed men with and without uniforms are targeting Iraqis from all communities, their properties and places of worship. The US Ambassador to Iraq speaks about Pandora's box being opened. We have invited three Iraqis from the heart of the events to speak about them and to suggest ways for closing the box.
Dr Isam Al-rawi is a Sunni Cleric and member of the Sura Council of the Association of Muslim Clerics. He is also a professor at Baghdad University. Sundus Abbas is director of Iraqi Women's Leadership Council. Salah Mohammad is external relations manager for the Sadrist Current.
ralph miliband lecture series
16-Mar-2006, 18.30, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Pathologies of the State and the Market
Speaker: Professor Steven Lukes
Chair: Professor David Held
Professor Lukes will ask what is the appropriate sphere of state planning and show what harms result from intervention and marketisation, where it is inappropriate. He will then discuss to what extent each is the remedy for the harms caused by the other
Steven Lukes is professor of sociology at New York University. He was centennial visiting professor at LSE 2000-03.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
lunchtime discussion
07-Mar-2006, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
The Role of Kin States in Ethnic Conflict Settlement: Bosnia and Northern Ireland
Speaker: Indraneel Sincar, PhD Candidate (by then might have defended), Department of Government, LSE
lunchtime discussion
28-Feb-2006, 13.00-14.00,
K05, LSE
The 'Voices of the Donors': Perspectives of Donors Involved in Civil Society and Democracy Building in Armenia
Speaker: Armine Ishkanian, Centre for Civil Society, LSE
lunchtime discussion
21-Feb-2006, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Love Between Men: The Homosexuality Question and the Perils of Otherness in Africa
Speaker: Ebenezer Obadare, LSE
ralph miliband lecture series
08-Feb-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
The Future of the Left and its Economic Policy
Speaker: Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Chair: Professor David Held
This lecture will argue for an alternative to the hollowing out of the transformative ambitions of the European Left by the ‘Third Way’, as well as to the old Leftist programme of governmental direction of the economy, compensatory redistribution through progressive taxation and public spending. Professor Unger rejects a single-minded focus on equality as the commanding goal of the Left.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is professor of law at Harvard University. He has long been active in Brazilian and Latin American politics, as a candidate, political activist, and as an advisor to world leaders.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis
lunchtime discussion
07-Feb-2006, 13.00-14.00, M101, LSE
Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 10 Years Later
Speaker: Jasna Baksic-Muftic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo
public debate
02-Feb-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
Climate Change and Civil Society: Who is Speaking for Whom?
Speakers: Saleemul Huq, Mark Kenber, Peter Newell, Andrew Simms
When an Inuit leader attending international climate negotiations saw campaigners dressed as polar bears to highlight the effects of global warming, she demanded to know what right they had to speak on her behalf. Today developing countries are putting innovative proposals on the table that represent a sea change in climate change politics. Are Southern activists the new pioneers who can unblock the current impasse on climate change negotiations or do campaigners from the North still dominate the debate?
Saleemul Huq is head of the Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development. Mark Kenber is policy director of the Climate Group. Peter Newell is senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. Andrew Simms is policy director and head of Climate Change Programme, New Economics Foundation.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis.
lunchtime discussion
31-Jan-2006, 13.00-14.00, K05, LSE
"Transforming the Governance of Global Supply Chains: A global agenda for ‘empowering the poor’?"
Speaker: Kate MacDonald, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
public debate
18-Jan-2006, 18.30, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Social Forums: Success or Failure?
Speakers: Bernard Cassen, Ellie Cijvat, Dr Marlies Glasius, Rodrigo Nunes
Since the first World Social Forum in 2001 there has been an explosion of local, thematic, national and regional forums around the world. What have these gatherings achieved? Do they exert any real influence? And what does the future hold for the World Social Forum?
Bernard Cassen is a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, director of Le Monde Diplomatique and honorary president of ATTAC France. Ellie Cijvat is at the Skane Social Forum. Dr Marlies Glasius is research fellow at LSE’s Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Rodrigo Nunes is a member of the Caracol Intergalactika Network.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis
lunchtime discussion
17-Jan-2006, 13.00-14.00, K05, LSE
‘Loss of the Father’? Memory and Political Authority in Post-war Kosovo
Speaker: Stephanie Schwander-Sievers, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
ralph miliband lecture series
12-Jan-2006, 18.30, Old Theatre, LSE
A Critical Debate about the Nature of Globalisation
Speakers: Professor Martin Wolf, Professor David Held
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
One of the big debates in globalization theory is the controversy between Martin Wolf and David Held about the form and changing nature of globalization. Both authors agree, that “globalization” exists, but disagree over its exact form and consequences.
Professor Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times. David Held is professor of political science at LSE and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis
lunchtime discussion
10-Jan-2006, 13.00-14.00, K05, LSE
Well-founded Right to Secession: The Case of Former Yugoslavia
Speaker: Miljenko Antic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb
public lecture
09-Jan-2006, 18.30, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Bringing War Criminals to Justice: The Role of Global Civil Society
Speaker: Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade
Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, explores the challenges of transitional justice and apprehension of war crimes suspects in the former Yugoslavia
For her anti-war and human rights activism, Natasa Kandic has received the Human Rights Watch Award, US and EU Democracy and Civil Society Award, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights Award, NED Democracy Award, and European Hero (Time Magazine).
public lecture
01-Dec-2005, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Democratic Responses to Terrorism: The Madrid Agenda
Speaker: Kim Campbell
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
The Madrid Agenda embraces principles and strategies designed to tackle one of the greates challenges
of the 21st century: how to confront terrorism while safeguarding democracy. This lecture outlines the Agenda's
proposals and implications.
Kim Campbell is secretary-general of the Club of Madrid and former prime minister of Canada.
public lecture
30-Nov-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Solving the Crisis of Global Governance Democratically
Speaker: Professor Richard Falk
Chair: Professor David Held
A state-centric basis of global politics can no longer meet the primary challenges of world order. The American response to this challenge is to impose a non-territorial form of global empire based either on the geo-economic emphasis of the Clinton presidency or the militarist emphasis of the Bush presidency. Professor Falk will discuss the alternative fashioned by various tendencies in global civil society to promote global democracy based on international law, an enhanced United Nations, progressive regionalism, accountability of leaders, and mechanisms for popular participation in arenas of decision and authority.
Richard Falk is Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University and Visiting Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
lunchtime discussion
29-Nov-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
Why the War Happened? Understanding Transatlantic Motives and World Views
Speaker: Patrick Diamond, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund'
public lecture
22-Nov-2005, 18:30-20:00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Global Connectedness
Speakers: Professor Helmut Anheier and Dr Hagai Katz
Chair: Dr Marlies Glasius
What are the characteristics of transnational NGO networks? Do they stimulate or hinder collective
global action and what influence do they have in the corridors of power?
Helmut Anheier is professor of public policy and social welfare at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) and centennial professor at LSE.
Hagai Katz is lecturer at the School of Management, Ben Gurion University, and a research associate at the Israeli
Centre for Third-sector Research and the UCLA Centre for Civil Society.
lunchtime discussion
22-Nov-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
Georgia's Energy Networks: Implications for Security
Speaker: Stacy Closson, Department of International Relations, LSE
ralph miliband lecture
18-Nov-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Making Globalisation Work for Development
Speaker: Professor Dani Rodrick
Chair: Professor David Held
The lecture will ask what kind of global rules best permit and foster economic development,
and compare those with the ones that are enshrined in current economic arrangements.
Dani Rodrick is professor of international political economy at the John F Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University.
public lecture
16-Nov-2005, 18.00-19.00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Milosevic and Hussein in the Dock: Perspectives on Contemporary Transitional Justice
Speaker: Professor Ruti Teitel
Ruti Teitel is Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School.
lunchtime discussion
15-Nov-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
Global Civil Society and Economic and Social Rights
Speaker: Marlies Glasius, Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Centre for Civil Society, LSE
public debate
14-Nov-2005, 18:30-20:00, Old Theatre, LSE
Children and Women in Palestine
Speakers: Professor Mary Kaldor, Hind Khoury, Lucy Nusseibeh
Chair: Baroness Warnock
This event, whcih coincides with the launch of the UK office of MEND (Middle East Non-Violence and Democracy),
will explore the changing role of women in Palestine today.
Hind Khoury is the Palestinian Authority's minister of state for Jerusalem.
Lucy Nusseibeh is director of MEND.
This event is free and open for all but a ticket is required.
ralph miliband lecture
08-Nov-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Melting Modernity: Each Time Unique
Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
Chair: Professor David Held
The legacy of Ralph Miliband stands for a momentous challenge confronted by intellectuals of his time, for whom the purpose of thought was to make the world better than found. As hoped, the leap towards liberty, equality and fraternity would finally reach its socialist destination. Must, however, the hopes of emancipation follow the fate of the ‘historical agent’?
Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds and emeritus professor at the University of Warsaw. He is the world’s foremost sociologist of
postmodernity.
lunchtime discussion
08-Nov-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
Music and Globalisation: Exchanging Folk for Rock in the Balkans
Speaker: Ivan Vukovic, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University
lunchtime discussion
01-Nov-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
Too Close for Comfort? Civil society activity in relation to the UK arms trade
Speaker: Anna Stavrianakis, Department of Politics, University of Bristol
ralph miliband lecture
27-Oct-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Melting Modernity: Living in Utopia
Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
Chair: Professor David Held
To be born, the utopian dream needed two conditions: first, the feeling that the world was not functioning properly and second, confidence in human potency – that humans, armed with reason, were able to spy out the wrong and find out how to replace diseased parts. The second condition is now largely missing.
Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds and emeritus professor at the University of Warsaw. He is the world’s foremost sociologist of
postmodernity.
book launch
26-Oct-2005, 18:00, Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Triple Book Launch
Marlies Glasius: The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement. Routledge.
Denisa Kostovicova: Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space. Routledge.
Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds): A Human Security Doctrine for Europe; Project, Principles, Practicalities. Routledge.
lunchtime discussion
25-Oct-2005, 13.00-14.00, Z332, LSE
The Iraqi Constitution
Speaker: Yahia Said, Centre for the Study of Global Governance
lunchtime discussion
21-Oct-2005, 12.00-14.00, H615, LSE
Nagorno-Karabakh: Viewing the Conflict from the Ground
Speaker: Sabine Freizer, Caucasus Project Director, International Crisis Group
ralph miliband lecture
20-Oct-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Melting Modernity: The Demons of Open Society
Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
Chair: Professor David Held
‘Open’ and increasingly defenceless states lose their might, their political acumen and dexterity. The task that will confront this century as its paramount challenge is the imperative to bring power and politics together again.
Zygmunt Bauman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Leeds and emeritus professor at the University of Warsaw. He is the world’s foremost sociologist of
postmodernity.
book launch
18-Oct-2005, 09:30-11:30, Ford Foundation, New York
Global Risk: How Civil Society Responds
Speakers: Helmut Anheier, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare, Center for Civil Society, UCLA, Marlies Glasius, Lecturer, LSE, Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, LSE, Yahia Said, Research Fellow, LSE
lunchtime discussion
18-Oct-2005, 13:00-14:00, Z332, St. Philips Building, LSE
Is Inter-Ethnic Reconciliation in the Balkans Possible?
Speaker: Nebojsa Petrovic, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University
lunchtime discussion
11-Oct-2005, Z332, St. Philips Building, LSE
Theories of Secession: Can They Explain the Break-up of Yugoslavia?
Speaker: Daniele Conversi, University of Lincoln
public discussion
12-Oct-2005, 18:30-20:00,
D302, LSE
'For a charm of pow'rful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble': Theories about the Roots of the Yugoslav Troubles
Speakers: Professor Sabrina Ramet
Discussant: Daniele Conversi
Chair: Dr Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic
launch Global Civil Society 2005/6 Yearbook
06-Oct-2005, 18:30, Old Theatre, LSE
Global Risk: How Civil Society Responds
Speakers: Professor Gaskell, Lord Giddens and Professor Kaldor
Chair: Adele Simmons
What do terrorism, climate change, migration and the tsunami have in common? Myriads of people around the world are touched by them. How people respond depends on their perceptions of risk, shaped in part by the many individuals, movements and NGOs whose campaigns reach beyong state borders and domestic policies.
View table of contents of the 2005/6 Yearbook
seminar
23-25-Sept-2005, Cairo University, Egypt
Violence and Civil Society
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance and the Centre for Political Research and Studies at Cairo University will explore the
changing relationship between violence and civil society in a three-day seminar in the Egyptian capital.
conference
29-June-2005 - 01-July-2005, LSE
Iraqi Oil Wealth: Issues of Governance and Development
Organisers: Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Open Society Institute
ralph miliband lecture
04-May-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Culture and Inequality
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett
Chair: Professor David Held
Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and chair of the LSE Cities Programme.
ralph miliband lecture
26-Apr-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Does Inequality Matter?
Speakers: Ed Balls, Professor Thomas Pogge and Professor Robert Wade
Chair: Professor David Held
Inequality is one of the most contested topics of our time.
Yet, does inequality matter and if so, why? Can it be argued that poverty
and social exclusion are far more significant than inequality?
Ed Balls is a Labour parliamentary candidate for Normanton and former economic
adviser to the Treasury. Thomas Pogge is associate professor at Columbia University
and professorial research fellow at the Australian National University.
Robert Wade is professor of political economy and development at LSE.
ralph miliband lecture
22-Mar-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Re-Framing Justice in a Globalising World
Speaker: Professor Robert Reich
Chair: Professor David Held
Professor Robert Reich analyses the current state of American politics, in
light of the US presidential election. He will examine what we can expect in
foreign and domestic policies over the next four years and the larger trends in
American politics and economics that underlie the decision of American voters
last November.
Robert Reich is Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis
University, and former US Secretary of Labor.
public lecture
16-Mar-2005, 12.30-14.00, E304, East Building, LSE
HIV/AIDS in China: an activist’s perspective
Speaker: Dr Wan YanHai, founder of Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education
Chair: Professor Jude Howell, Director, Centre for Civil Society, LSE
At this seminar, Dr Wan will discuss his work and its challenges,
the development of patient treatment, and care of orphans in
rural China. He will also chart the evolution of civil society
organisations working on HIV/AIDS in the country.
This event is organised by the Centre for Civil Society (LSE)
and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance (LSE).
public debate
16-Mar-2005, 18.30-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
The New Pioneers
Speakers: Jeroo Billimoria, founder of Childline,
Paola Grenier, author of 'The New Pioneers' in Global Civil Society 2004/5,
Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of Oneworld.net,
Dr Wan YanHai, founder of Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Why dedicate your life to changing society and helping others? Around the
globe individuals are defining and influencing issues of direct concern to
millions of people, from health and education, to peace and ethical commerce.
They are the new pioneers of global civil society. Who are they, what qualities
do they need to make a difference and what challenges do they face?
Paola Grenier is author of ‘The New Pioneers, the People Behind Global Civil
Society’ in Global Civil Society 2004/05.
conference
12-13-Mar-2005, Cairo
Prospects of the Political Process in Iraq
Chairs: Mary Kaldor (Center for Global Governance, LSE), Mohuammed Said (Al Ahram Center, Cairo),
Hanna Edward (Iraqi al Amal, Baghdad) and Mark Juergensmeyer, (Global & International Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
Sponsored by: London School of Economics and Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies
Co-sponsored by: Iraqi al Amal Association and the University of California, Santa Barbara
Report Notes
lunch time discussion
08-Mar-2005, 12.30-14.00, M101, CsGG
Greek Investment and Regional/Local Economic Development in the Balkans
Vassilis Monastiriotis, European Institute and Hellenic Observatory, LSE
ralph miliband lecture
08-Mar-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Re-Framing Justice in a Globalising World
Speaker: Professor Nancy Fraser
Chair: Professor David Held
Globalisation is changing the way we argue about justice. Not so long ago,
disputes about justice assumed a Keynesian-Westphalian framework. Debated
within national publics, such disputes concerned relations among fellow citizens
and the possibility of the redress of injustice by territorial states. But
changing global circumstances call for a rethinking of this model. Professor
Fraser proposes a strategy for thinking about justice today.
Nancy Fraser is Henry A and Louise A Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics
at the Graduate Faculty of New School University and co-editor of
'Constellations'.
Speakers: Jasmina Husanovic-Pehar (University of Tuzla), Sumantra Bose (LSE), Dragoljub Stojanov
(University of Sarajevo), Professor James Gow (King’s College), Gabriel Partos
(BBC) and Tihomir Loza (Transitions Online).
Chair: Pavel Seifter
Nearly a decade after the Dayton Peace Accords
ended the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country still struggles to
overcome the political, economic and social legacy of war. It is still a de
facto international protectorate, and the outside involvement in the country’s
post-war reconstruction and stabilisation has both had its critics and
supporters. Gathering local and international experts, the Dayton 2005 Debate takes stock of ten years of peace implementation in Bosnia
and Herzegovina and tackles the question how best to build Bosnia and
Herzegovina as a viable political and economic entity that can effectively
engage in the Euro-Atlantic integration process. How can local actors be
mobilised to take this process forward? Should the involvement of the international community be rethought and
how? Executive director of the Association Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005
Christophe Solioz will make introductory remarks.
lunchtime discussions 2005
22-Feb-2005, 13:00-14:00, M101, CsGG
Transitional Justice in Serbia and Montenegro: National Courts and Other Forms of Judicial Settlement of Disputes
Speaker: Sanja Djajic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
public debate
21-Feb-2005, 18.30-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Oil and Activism
Speakers: Graham Baxter, Roger Higman and Yahia Said
Chair: Professor Lord Desai
Virtually every country in the world is dependent on oil, many
increasingly so. Economic lubricant and cause of geo-political
friction, oil can bring vast riches - and great misery. From
the Middle East and the Caucasus to South Asia and West Africa,
this global commodity is a major source of contention. Oil
exploration and extraction encompasses issues of human rights,
environmental sustainability, governance and corporate responsibility.
As such it has attracted the attention - and criticism - of activists,
NGOs and researchers. How far have they shaped the actions
and values of oil companies, and changed public attitudes? How
much have they influenced the politics of oil?
Graham Baxter is Vice President corporate responsibility at BP.
Roger Higman is a senior campaigner at Friends of the Earth.
Yahia Said is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and author of 'Global Civil Society: Oil and activism' in Global Civil Society 2004/5.
public lecture
18-Feb-2005, 12:00, Old Theatre, LSE
2005: Make or Break for Global Governance?
Speaker: Gareth Evans
Chair: Professor Lord Desai
Gareth Evans was a member of the of the UN Secretary General's High Level
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, whose report "A More Secure World:
Our Shared Responsibility" was published in December.
He is president of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, an
independent multinational non-governmental organisation with over 100 full-time
staff on five continents which works, through field-based analysis and
high-level policy advocacy, to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
He was the Australian Foreign Minister from 1988-1996, when he was best known
internationally for his roles in helping to develop the UN peace plan for
Cambodia, bring to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention,
found the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and ASEAN Regional
Forum (ARF), and initiate the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons.
The lecture took place with the support of the United Nations Foundation.
Lecture transcript
ralph miliband lecture
2005
15-Feb-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Global Inequality: From the End of World War II to Today
Speakers: Dr Branko Milanovic
Chair: Professor David Held
This lecture reviews the changes in international inequality (the differences
between countries’ mean incomes) and inequality between individuals in the world
during the last 50 years. It will focus on the discontinuity in world
development which occurred around 1980 with growth accelerations in China and
India and the decline of world ‘middle class countries’ in Latin America and
Eastern Europe, and the need to reorient the focus of multilateral agencies to
African development.
Dr Branko Milanovic is lead economist at the World Bank and senior associate
on a Trade, Equity and Development Project at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
lunchtime discussions 2005
15-Feb-2005, 13:00-14:00, M101, CsGG
‘With us or against us?’ Impacts of the War on Terror on Development Policy and NGOs
Speaker: Howard Mollet, Bond
lunchtime discussions 2005
08-Feb-2005, 13:00-14:00, M101, CsGG
Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Public Records Office: Non-alignment, Détente and Cooperation with West
Speaker: Tvrtko Jakovina, Department of History, University of Zagreb, Croatia
cold war studies centre 2004/05 lecture series
02-Feb-2005, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, LSE
Old Wars, Cold Wars, New Wars, Wars on Terror
Speakers: Professor Mary Kaldor
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
Lecture transcript
lunchtime discussions 2005
01-Feb-2005, 13.00-14.30, M101, CsGG
Does Global Civil Society Democratise International Decision-Making? The Case of the International Criminal Court
Marlies Glasius, Centre for Civil Society, LSE
lunchtime discussions 2005
25-Jan-2005, 12.30-14.00, M101, CsGG
Trafficking in Human Beings in South Eastern Europe: The Case of Serbia and Montenegro
Jelena Djordjevic, University of Sussex and Anti-Trafficking Centre, Belgrade
lunchtime discussions 2005
18-Jan-2005, 12.30-14.00, M101, CsGG
Rethinking the Split of the Political: Civil Society and the State
Iavor Rangelov, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
lunchtime discussions 2005
11-Jan-2005, 12.30-14.00, M101, CsGG
The Erased: Resentment, Residency and Social Citizenship in Slovenia
Brad Blitz, Roehampton University, currently Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University
of Oxford
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