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Kim Wall - IR Department alumnus

The Department of International Relations is extremely saddened to learn of the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.  Kim studied for the BSc in International Relations in the IR Department and graduated in 2011, before going on to complete a masters degree at Columbia University and becoming a freelance journalist.

Her former Academic Adviser at the LSE, Dr Alex Prichard, remembers her well.  He writes that she was "a really lovely person, as well as an excellent student with ambition and ability, who was determined to pursue a career in journalism". All who knew her praised her dedication to her work, her inquisitiveness and engagement. 

The department sends its deepest sympathies to Kim's family and friends.

Congratulations to Dr Covadonga Meseguer who has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

This year the British Academy has appointed 47 new Mid-Career Fellows, whose research promote public understanding and engagement in the humanities and social sciences. Mid-Career Fellowships allow academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate their work to a wider audience, by obtaining time away from teaching and administration commitments.

Dr Meseguer has been awarded the fellowship for her project: "The Emigrant State". The Fellowship will be taken up from Autumn 2017.

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Highly cited works

Professor Tomila Lankina's article 'Appropriation and Subversion: Precommunist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Postcommunist Democratic Outcomes' (co-written with Alexander Libman and Anastasia Obydenkova) has been highlighted by the World Politics Cambridge Core website as a 'most cited in 2016' work. They are making it available for free download across the 2017 APSA, ECPR and EISA conferences.

Congratulations to Dr Kirsten Ainley whose article 'The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court: counteracting the crisis' has been highlighted by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) International Affairs Journal as a 'highly cited paper' for 2016. Read the article here

Congratulations to Fawaz Gerges!

ISIS: A History by Professor Fawaz A Gerges
Shortlisted for the prestigious Arthur Ross Book Award 2017 from the Council on Foreign Relations.

This annual award recognises books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or international relations.

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Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War Two

Watch Dr. Tarak Barkawi talk about his latest book Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War Two in a fascinating interview here:

Interview with Dr Tarak Barkawi

IR Teachers receive awards in the 2017 LSE SU Teaching Excellence Awards

Joanne Yao was Highly Commended for Innovative Teaching, and Katharine Millar was Runner Up for Inspirational Teaching at this year’s LSE SU Teaching Excellence Awards.

IR PhD candidate Scott Hamilton receives a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Scott Hamilton on receiving a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016-17, for his project 'Rethinking Governance and Circulation: Global Cycles of Carbon, Water, and Radioactive Fallout'.

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IR Department PhD students receive bursaries

Congratulations to Ida Danewid & Evelyn Pauls on receiving prestigious LSE Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries to study abroad.

Ida Danewid, supervised by Mark Hoffman and Kirsten Ainley, has a bursary to go to the University of California, Berkeley. She will work with decolonial theorist Ramón Grosfoguel to further her research on solidarity, the global colour line and connected histories.

Evelyn Pauls, who is supervised by Kirsten Ainley, has a bursary to go to the National University of Singapore. She will work with Professor Aung-Thwin, a leading expert on Burmese history, to refine her work on the influence of international activism on states’ child recruitment practices, in particular in Myanmar.

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LSE Politics and International Relations continues to be ranked third in 2017 world university rankings by subject

LSE Politics and International Relations has been ranked third in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2017 tables for Politics and International Studies.

The LSE follows Harvard University and Oxford University. Scores take into account academic and employer reputation surveys, along with citations per faculty.

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Russia's state of the art media strategy

Dr. Tomila Lankina discusses Russia's state of the art media strategy in a new study, arguing that media monitoring can shed light on the Kremlin's opaque decision-making processes.

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Staff news

Dr. Stephen Woolcock  gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Relations' Committee on international trade after Brexit. Click here to watch the debate.

Dr. Tomila Lankina took part in the BBC Radio 4 topical news show The Now Show, talking about Trump and Putin.  Listen to it here for the next thirty days.

Professor Barry Buzan and Dr George Lawson's book The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations has been awarded the ISA's Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations 2017.

Dr. Martin Hearson, LSE IR expert on tax treaties, was quoted in the Financial Times on Mauritius investment.

Dr. Kirsten Ainley reviews Joe Hoover's book 'Reconstructing Human Rights'.

Professor Peter Trubowitz talks about the US Presidential Election in Newsweek and Chatham House.  He also writes regularly for the LSE US Centre blog.

Dr. Martin Bayly gave an interview to Research Professional magazine in September on his British Academy Award.