IDEAS

Dahrendorf Forum Policy Brief: Are Europe’s wind and solar industries still attractive for Chinese companies?

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has been rising exponentially since 2007. This policy brief reflects on the present state of Chinese FDI in the European solar and wind sectors and gives some recommendations for European, and especially German, stakeholders.

Strategic Update: The Greek Euro Tragedy

This Strategic Update discusses the most recent problems for the Eurozone, namely the Greek crisis and how the European Central Bank’s (ECB) lack of democratic accountability has contributed to the instability of the Eurozone. Read online / Download pdf

Transatlantic Relations After the Election: Next Generation Perspectives November 28th, 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre, LSE

LSE IDEAS Dahrendorf Forum event.  Following the shock American election result, what's the future of US-Europe relations? Contributors to the Dahrendorf Forum-LSE IDEAS Special Report New Challenges, New Voices discuss the issues that will shape transatlantic ties in President Trump's tenure, from the TTIP trade deal to NATO defence spending.

The Legacy of Peace: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

Joint LSE IDEAS-LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre event.  The LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project was honoured to welcome President of Colombia and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos to the LSE on November 2nd, where he said the referendum result could be a "blessing in disguise" for the peace process. Listen to the podcast now.

Global Elite Knowledge Networks & Anglo-American Power: Think Tanks, Foundations, & Universities & the New World Order

Joint LSE IDEAS-City University London-Princeton University event.
This international workshop examined the role of think tanks in foreign policy making. In particular, it focused on the huge influence of think tanks in post war planning during and after World War II, and the establishment of international informal networks of policy evidence.

IDEAS-GIZ Drug Policies & Human Development Innovation Lab

The IDPP are pleased to work with the GIZ Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development (GPDPD) in developing the 'Innovation Lab', an active policymaking event which brings together experts and policymakers from around the world and range of fields. Working in small groups, they debate and design policies and interventions in specific areas of drugs-related development. 

British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War Documentary Evidence

This joint project between IDEAS, The British Academy, and the Russian Academy unlocks the archives of the early Cold War. Explore hundreds of newly released archive documents with new insight into how the Cold War began including declassified diplomatic cables, diaries, and reports of meetings between Russian and British leaders.

China Foresight

Analysing Chinese strategy and foreign policy from the inside out by understanding the domestic policy making process in China and engaging with the ongoing debates among Chinese academics and senior policy-makers. 

Cold War Studies Project

The Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) maintains LSE IDEAS as the leading centre in Europe for advanced study and research on the Cold War. Home to the Cold War History Journal and several international partnerships, CWSP focuses on the new history of the Cold War, the global Cold War, and the continuing modern day impact of the Cold War.

Dahrendorf Forum

A joint project between LSE and German partners the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and Stiftung Mercator leading the debate on Europe’s external relations and honouring the legacy of former LSE Director Ralf Dahrendorf. Supported by the Stiftung Mercator Foundation.

LSE Diplomacy Commission

A forum for informed, private and strategic discussion on the future of British diplomacy. An experienced group of Commissioners held private hearings with expert witnesses, to produce the Investing for Influence report on the UK's place in the world. Supported by a LSE HEIF 5 award.

Global Strategies @ LSE

Connecting academics with Whitehall and beyond. The aim of the project is to provide sound practical advice on how strategy can be made more effective, bringing together a wide range of academics from LSE with senior practitioners past and present from the UK & overseas.

International Drug Policy Project

A cross-regional research project setting the agenda in debates on the international drug control system through the acclaimed Governing the Global Drug Wars report and Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy. Supported by Open Society Foundations and the British Council. 

Power Shifts

Power Shifts investigates claims that across the world power is moving: particularly from the US to China, from West to East, and from states to non-state actors. Through multidisciplinary collaborations the project seeks to understand how power may transition from one actor to another. 

Transatlantic Relations After the Election: Next Generation Perspectives November 28th, 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre, LSE

LSE IDEAS Dahrendorf Forum event.  Following the shock American election result, what's the future of US-Europe relations? Contributors to the Dahrendorf Forum-LSE IDEAS Special Report New Challenges, New Voices discuss the issues that will shape transatlantic ties in President Trump's tenure, from the TTIP trade deal to NATO defence spending.

Clash of the Titans? China-US Relations 1972-2016
December 1st, 6.30-8pm, Wolfson Theatre, LSE

When Nixon opened a door to China in 1972  the world was turned upside down for ever. But what is the state of the US-China relationship nearly fifty years on? Two distinguished analysts will share their insights and thoughts on the past, present and future of arguably the most significant relationship of the modern era.

From Iraq to the New Cold War: Hans Blix 
December 8th, 12.30-1.45pm, Old Building 4.10, Houghton Street, LSE

Hans Blix achieved international  prominence in his role as Head of the UN team which failed to discover WMD in Iraq - the official reason given by both the Blair and Bush governments for finally going to war in 2003. At this event, Blix will explore lessons from the past and a way forward for the future of weapons control in a world that has become no safer.

A Briton at the Heart of Europe: Revisiting Roy Jenkins' Presidency of the European Commission 

Joint LSE IDEAS-LSE Department of International History event. 
Forty years ago, a British politician was appointed President of the European Commission. In this lecture Dr Piers Ludlow explored what Jenkins' tenure reveals about the nature of the job and the history of Britain in Europe.

Global Elite Knowledge Networks & Anglo-American Power: Think Tanks, Foundations, & Universities & the New World Order

Joint LSE IDEAS-City University London-Princeton University event.
This international workshop examined the role of think tanks in foreign policy making. In particular, it focused on the huge influence of think tanks in post war planning during and after World War II, and the establishment of international informal networks of policy evidence.

The Legacy of Peace: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

Joint LSE IDEAS-LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre event.  The LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project was honoured to welcome President of Colombia and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos to the LSE on November 2nd, where he said the referendum result could be a "blessing in disguise" for the peace process. 

EU Referendum: What Now?

The Monday after the UK voted for Brexit, LSE IDEAS held an event with Sarasin & Partners on what happens now. LSE experts and guests from business and politics discussed the impact on the global markets, the UK economy, British politics, and the wider world. 

Power and Pragmatism with Sir Malcolm Rifkind

For almost forty years, Malcolm Rifkind served at the forefront of British politics. In this lecture, Sir Malcolm gave a lively account of his involvement in some of recent history’s most important events - such as early meetings between Thatcher and Gorbachev, and secret negotiations with the Argentine government on the Falklands Islands.

The Decline of the West in the New Asian Century?

Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman and experts from LSE IDEAS discussed his new book Easternisation, debating how far Asia's growing wealth will move the international balance of power away from the West, Chinese nationalism, and the US-China competition for allies in Asia. 

Dahrendorf Forum Policy Brief: Are Europe’s wind and solar industries still attractive for Chinese companies?

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has been rising exponentially since 2007. This policy brief reflects on the present state of Chinese FDI in the European solar and wind sectors and gives some recommendations for European, and especially German, stakeholders.

The Greek Euro Tragedy

This Strategic Update discusses the most recent problems for the Eurozone, namely the Greek crisis and how the European Central Bank’s (ECB) lack of democratic accountability has contributed to the instability of the Eurozone. Read online / Download pdf

ASEAN: In or Out? No Way…Not yet?

The UK voted to leave the EU on a wave of populist anger. Does the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) face a similar threat to regional integration? In this Strategic Update, Tan Sri Munir Majid assesses the prospect of a member state leaving ASEAN and the future of UK-ASEAN relations after Brexit. Read online / Download pdf

After the Drug Wars

Read the report endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize winners setting out a framework for the future of international drug policy in the 'post war on drugs' era, based on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Brexit: What Happens Next?

The British withdrawal from the EU will be a process not an event. This Strategic Update by Tim Oliver sets out the nine overlapping series of negotiations to expect and the positions the 27 remaining EU countries, gathered from a network of researchers across the continent. Read online / Download pdf

China's Geoeconomic Strategy

This report provides a systematic assessment of the economic bases of China’s foreign policy and the challenges the country faces as it makes the transition from rising power to superpower. LSE IDEAS' work on China continues with the China Foresight Project.

New Zealand Institute of Internatonal Affairs Conference 2016

IDEAS Director Michael Cox is speaking, from London, at the New Zealand Institute of Internatonal Affairs 2016 Conference 'The Global Future: Challenges to Security, Stability and Sustainability'. The conference explores what 'the rise of the rest' means for the global order.

BBC News at 10 comment on Hinkley Point

China Foresight's Yu Jie commented on the Hinkley Point nuclear deal on BBC News at 10. "[Chinese] sate owned enterprises want to use this deal as a stepping stone to achieve a major foothold in the European market and obviously to get to into demand sectors like civil nuclear is a major success for Chinese state owned enterprises I would say" she told BBC China correspondent Carrie Grace.

Professor Cox makes Hay in Segovia 

IDEAS Director Michael Cox spoke on Brexit and its global implications at the Hay Festival in Segovia, Spain - part of the international network of Hay Festival events. This week, Professor Cox is representing LSE IDEAS at the Global Think Tank Summit in Montreal.

China Foresight's Yu Jie has given insight into the Chinese perspective on the UK EU referendum. Speaking to US National Public Radio, she said the Chinese leadership "obviously consider the UK as being a gateway to Europe for years and years." 

She told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight that in addition to the economic cost, a 'Brexit' would be a political risk to President Xi Jinping. Read more on the BBC News website or in Yu Jie's LSE BrexitVote Blog on why China is an unexpectedly strong supporter of the Remain camp.