Previous Events - 2015

Philippe Roman Chair lecture: 20,000 Years of International Relations

In his second Philippe Roman Chair lecutre, Professor Ian Morris explained that Each Age Gets the Great Powers it Needs, how International Relations changed from the age of foraging to farming to industry, and what the patterns of great power history tells us about the future of the global order.

European Climate Leadership and COP21 - Assessing EU Relations with China and India

Panellists Diarmuid Torney, Olivia Gippner (Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow), and Fergus Green took part in a Dahrendorf Forum discussion on the shifting contours of global climate politics ahead of December’s COP21 Paris climate conference.

Russian Foreign Policy as an Exercise in Nation-building

Leading Moscow-based analyst Dmitri Trenin shed light on the role of the internal factors driving Russia’s behaviour in international politics in this Dahrendorf Forum and LSE Department of International Relations event.  

Will the 21st Century be Asian?

If the 19th Century was Europe's & the 20th America's, will the 21st belong to Asia? Public debate with Michael Cox (IDEAS Director) Danny Quah (SEAC Director) and Leslie Vinjamuri (Co-Director, Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice at SOAS). 

Policy Workshop: Shifting Drug Strategies in Ireland and the UK

The International Drug Policy Project hosted a high-level policy planning workshop for civil servants and experts from around the world, with a keynote speech by current Irish Minister with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, Adhán O’Ríordáin.

Policy Breakfast: Russia's Intervention in Syria 

Diplomats, civil servants, and journalists joined academics at IDEAS to discuss Russian military action in Syria at this private policy breakfast event with the Dahrendorf Forum and LSE Department of International Relations.

Philippe Roman Chair lecture:  A Theory of Everything

What can the patterns of the past tell us about the future of the global order? Hear in the inaugural Philippe Roman Chair Lecture by Ian Morris on Evolution, History and the Shape of Things to Come.

The Crisis in European Security

Experienced European diplomats Robert Cooper and Wolfgang Ischinger were joined by Professors Karen Smith and Robert Falkner for this Dahrendorf Forum discussion on the Ukraine crisis and how to restore a “Europe whole and free”.

Does Europe Have a Future? Stephen Walt lecture 

Professor Walt of the Kennedy School at Harvard spoke at this IDEAS-Dahrendorf Forum-LSE US Centre event on the strategic challenges facing the EU and if it could meet them.

Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder spoke at an IDEAS event chaired by fellow Philippe Roman Chair Anne Applebaum. He explained the role that the destruction of states played in the Holocaust and argued that we must try to understand the causes of violence to learn the lessons of history.

Will America and China go to war? Listen to the debate

How likely is a great power conflict between China and the United States? Listen to this LSE Summer School event with IDEAS Director Michael Cox and author of Will China Dominate the 21st Century? Jonathan Fenby. 

The EU and Russia: Unpacking the Stalemate

Can Europe improve its relationship with Russia? The Dahrendorf Forum Working Group on Europe, Ukraine, and Russia at IDEAS held a workshop examining different aspects of the relationship from the 'war of historical narratives' to EU enlargement policy and Ukraine.

Maccoby on Global Leadership

Thursday 2 July 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Michael Maccoby; Panelists: Marc Stears, Mari Sako; Moderator: Stefan Stern

What Does China Want?

Monday 18 May 2015, 2.00 - 3.30pm, TW2, room 9.04
Speaker: Mr Frank Lavin; Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

Colombia's Transition to Peace

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 6.30 - 7.45pm, Wolfson Theatre, NAB
Speaker: Mr Sergio Jaramillo Caro; Chair: Professor Michael Cox 

Three Major Geopolitical Shifts in Modern International History since 1500: Bringing Braudel into the 20th Century

Monday 11 May 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Kennedy; Chair: Professor Michael Cox

China, the United States and Asia in the Twenty-first Century

Tuesday, 5 May 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Arne Westad; Chair: Professor Michael Cox 

Crowd-Sourcing, Surveillance, and the Era of the Synopticon

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Matthew Connelly; Chair: Professor Michael Cox 

Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy Information Reception

Monday 9 March 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, New Academic Building, 8th Floor
Speakers: Professor Michael Cox and Professor Gordon Barrass  

Healing Ukraine – Coping with the Wounds of Conflict

The Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the LSE is launching a series of debates on the Ukraine-Russia conflict and its wider implications. Read more here.

Monday 9 March 2015, 1.00 - 2.00pm, TW2, room 9.04
Speakers: Professor Sergei Guriev, Professor Tymofei Mylovanov; Moderator: Professor Erik Berglof

An Awkward Alliance: West Germany and Portugal at the End of the Portuguese Empire

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 6.30 – 8.00pm, TW2, room 9.04
Speakers: Dr Rui Lopes, Dr Kristina Spohr; Chair: Professor Arne Westad 

George Padmore and Decolonisation from Below

Tuesday 3 February 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, room B.13, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Speaker: Dr Leslie James; Discussants: Professor Richard Drayton, Professor Bill Schwarz; Chair: Professor Arne Westad

After Snowden

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Ronald Pruessen, Professor Ronald Diebert, Dr Gus Hossein, Professor Sir David Omand; Chair: Dr Nicholas Kitchen

Henry Kissinger - Debating His Legacy in the 21st Century

Thursday 15 January 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Tower 2, 9.04
Speakers: Professor Mario del Pero, Professor Jussi Hanhimäki; Chair: Dr Piers Ludlow 

The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Matthew Connelly; Chair: Professor Michael Cox