IDEAS Events 2010

Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Latin America Today

6 December 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speakers: Dr Juliana Bertazzo, Dr Julia Schünemann; Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer

Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War

1 December 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Dr Svetozar Rajak; Discussant: Dr Vesselin Dimitrov; Chair: Professor Arne Westad

Africa and the World: the View from Washington

30 November 2010, 6.30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dr Howard Wolpe; Respondent: Dr. Chris Alden; Chair: Professor Michael Cox

Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

29 November 2010, 7.00pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Professor Richard Ned Lebow; Chair: Dr George Lawson

After Hiroshima: The United States, Race and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945-1965

25 November 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Professor Matthew Jones; Chair: Dr Arne Hofmann

The Third World's War

24 November 2010, 6.30pm, Old Theatre
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson; Chair: Professor Michael Cox

What next for Morocco?

23 November 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Dr. Claire Spencer

Balkans 2020: The Ministerial Debate

18 November 2010, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speakers:HE Nickolay Mladenov; HE Vuk Jeremić; Chair: Dr Svetozar Rajak

Myanmar's 2010 Elections: Outcomes and Implications

16 November 2010, 6.30pm, CLM.D202
Speakers: Derek Tonkin, BoBo Lansin; Chair: Dr Jurgen Haacke

A Lecture by Álvaro García Linera, Vice President of Bolivia

11 November 2010, 6.30pm, Old Theatre
Speaker: Álvaro García Linera; Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer

The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics

10 November 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speakers: Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, Professor Alex Callinicos, Professor Michael Cox; Chair: Dr George Lawson

Islam and the State: A Southeast Asian Perspective

9 November 2010, 6.00pm. The Box - Tower 3, Level 5
Speakers: Dr Bahtiar Effendy, Prof Gilles Kepel, Chair: Dr Munir Majid

From Ideas to Policies: Greek Analysis on the Cold War and the Balkans

2 November 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Dr Evanthis Hatzivassiliou; Chair: Dr Svetozar Rajak

German Unification Before and After: Generations, Dictatorships, Society

27 October 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Professor Mary Fulbrook, Chair: Dr Arne Hofmann

Israel Confronts its Past: the 'new historians' and their critics

25 October 2010, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speaker: Professor Avi Shlaim; Chair Professor Fawaz Gerges

Contesting Asian Economic Integration: US, China and Japan

20 October 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speakers: Professor Shaun Breslin, Professor Christopher Dent; Chair: Professor Arne Westad, Dr. Emmanuel Yujuico

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World

19 October 2010, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre
Speaker: Jonathan Powell; Chair: Professor Michael Cox

The Political Economy of the Cold War

18 October 2010, 6.30pm, Old Theatre
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson; Chair: Professor Arne Westad

Migrant Workers and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

14 October 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Donna Guest; Chair: Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman

Power Shift: West to East

13 October 2010, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre
Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Professor Arne Westad; Chair: Stryker McGuire

Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa

12 October 2010, 6:45pm, COL.B212
Dr. Chris Alden, Respondent: Prof Deborah James

US, Venezuela, Argentina: A Triangular Relationship?

11 October 2010, 7.00pm, COL.B212
Speaker: John Hughes; Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer

Power, Profit and Prestige: A History of American Expansionism

5 October 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
Speaker: Philip S Golub; Chair: Professor Michael Cox

Managing Economic Crisis: The G20 and the New Economic Multilateralism
17 June 2010, 6.30pm, B212
Speaker: Guo Xuejun
Chair: Professor Arne Westad

China and the International System: Joining, Contributing, or Hollowing Out?
25 May 2010, 6.30pm, B212
Speaker: Professor François Godement
Chair: Professor Arne Westad

Soviet Capitulation: Kabul, Berlin-Warsaw, Moscow
20 May 2010, 12:30pm, B212
Speaker: Professor Stephen Kotkin
Chair: Professor Arne Westad

RUSI Book Launch: Soft Power and US Foreign Policy
19 May 2010, 4.00pm, Royal United Services Institute (Whitehall)
Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Professor Inderjeet Parmar, Professor Joseph Nye, Professor Christopher Hill

US Power and Leadership in the Obama Presidency
13 May 2010, 6.30pm, B212
Speaker: Professor Stephen Brooks
Discussants: Professor Barry Buzan, Professor Michael Cox

From People Power to Ballot Power: Countdown to a new Philippine Presidency
12 May 2010, 6.30pm, B212
Speakers: Louis Alferez, Eva-Lotta Hedman
Chair: Emmanuel Yujuico

The East Asian Century?
27 April 2010, 6.30pm, Woolfson Theatre
Speaker: Professor Barry Buzan
Chair: Professor Arne Westad

The Niger Delta: Confronting the Crisis 
11 March 2010
Speakers: Abiodun Alao, Dauda Garuba, Ed Kashi, Michael Peel 
Chair: Dr. Sue Onslow

With the amnesty signed in July 2009 beginning to unravel amid news reports of renewed violence, and continuing uncertainty over succession in the Nigerian presidency, a panel of experts and external observers examined the complex situation in the Niger Delta. Discussion ranged from the politics of the conflict at grass roots level, as well as the responsibility of the Niger Delta state governors, and central executive.

Talk and Film Showing of 'Missing' (1982)
Friday 5 March 2010, 6.00pm, Thai Theatre, LSE
Speaker: Joyce Horman
Chair: Tanya Harmer 

Joyce Horman, whose husband Charles was murdered following the coup in which General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile, gave a talk LSE for the Latin America International Affairs Programme about the events surrounding her husband’s disappearance and her extraordinary 30-year long struggle to find answers to what happened and why. 

From Nuclear Pariah to Non-Proliferation Hero: Legacies of South Africa's Nuclear Policy
2 March 2010, 6.00pm, B212 LSE IDEAS Conference Room
Speaker: Dr. Anna-Mart van Wyk
Chair: Dr. Sue Onslow

Bases of stability or the basis for conflict?
2 February 2010, 6.30pm
Speakers: Mauricio Rodríguez Múnera (Colombian Ambassador in the U.K.), Grace Livingstone (Author and Journalist) Liam Craig-Best (Director, Justice For Colombia), Spencer Wood (Partner at O.H. Parsons, Trade Union solicitors)
Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer

Neutrality in the Early Cold War: Arms Import and Neutrality
26 January 2010, 6.00pm 
Speaker: Marco Wyss
Chair: Professor Nigel Ashton