Events
IDEAS events aim to provide the public, policymakers, and professionals with diplomatic insight. Our events include public lectures, debates, policy workshops, and international conferences.
Upcoming Events:
Sea change: the new great game in the Arctic circle / Thursday 22 October, 6.30pm - 8pm
Award-winning journalist Rana Foroohar will discuss her latest book, Sea Change , exploring the growing geopolitical and economic importance of the Arctic and the competition between the US, Russia, and China for influence in the region. The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
LSE Global South Dialogue Series: Whose Global South? China’s Narratives, Coalitions, and Geoeconomic Strategy / 18th November, 2-3pm
China increasingly invokes the “Global South,” but the term carries multiple meanings in its foreign policy. This talk examines how Beijing frames the Global South as a community of developing countries, a coalition for reforming global governance, and a geoeconomic arena shaped by trade, technology, infrastructure, and great-power competition.
Taiwan’s AI Moment: Chips, Compute, and the Global South / 19th November, 6.30-8pm
How can Taiwan leverage its semiconductor leadership to expand its global influence? Join Hudson Institute’s Jason Hsu to explore Taiwan’s role in the AI economy.
The Geopolitics of Climate Change: Rethinking Peace in the Antropocene / Thursday 26 November, 6-7pm
Dr Lakitsch will discuss how political power, legitimacy and environment are altogether becoming increasingly relevant, especially in the wake of climate crisis. Particularly, he will talk about a political ecology of peace that seeks to adapt international peace efforts to the conditions of the Anthropocene and to thereby make them more effective and sustainable.
Launch of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission / December 3rd, 6pm - 7.30pm
LSE IDEAS invites you to the launch of the Economic Diplomacy Commission, a platform for applied, cross-disciplinary work on how states are navigating a fragmenting global economic order.