Children of a modest star

Tuesday 1 October 2024 6.30-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants across the globe are unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures.

Our panellists will examine dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet, and explore a new architecture for global governance, to enable the habitability of the Earth for humans and non-humans alike.

Meet our speakers

Nils Gilman is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute. He is the co-author of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises.

Ganga Shreedhar is Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Her research examines how people perceive and understand complex dilemmas like mass extinction and climate change, and consumer and citizen motivations and choices.

Karen E Smith is a Professor of International Relations at LSE. Her main area of research is the ‘international relations of the European Union’, and she has written extensively on the formulation and implementation of common EU foreign policies.

Chair

Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at LSE and the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA, a world leading executive MBA programme jointly run by NYU Stern School of Business, HEC Paris and LSE. His research focuses on global environmental politics, global political economy, and the role of business in international relations.

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How Sanctions Work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare

Hosted by the Middle East Centre and the Department of International Relations

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 6.30-8.00pm
Auditorium, Lower Ground Floor, Centre Building

Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr will discuss the most sanctioned country in the world, Iran, and whether sanctions work in the way they should.

This event will be a discussion around the book How Sanctions Work Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Ali Vaez published by Stanford University Press.

Sanctions have enormous consequences. When imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioural changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should?

Meet our speakers

Narges Bajoghli is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Vali Nasr is Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Chair tbc

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The End of Free Markets? Economic statecraft in the age of geopolitics

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE IDEAS

Thursday 24 October 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Venue TBC

Join Kathleen McNamara, Elizabeth Ingleson, Alexander Evans and Mona Paulson as they discuss whether current geopolitics means the age of free markets is really coming to an end.

For decades, neoliberal ideologies and interests elevated free markets over political interventions. Today however the United States and the European Union have dramatically reversed course with a variety of new policy initiatives. From technologies to fight climate change to efforts to develop silicon chips in competition with China, we are in a new age of industrial policy and geopolitical markets. What are the roots of this change, and will the new economic statecraft prove a success, or a failed experiment in deglobalisation?

Meet our speakers:

Professor Kathleen R McNamara (@ProfKMcNamara), Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Global Political Economy Project. 

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (@lizingleson), Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. She specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press). 

Professor Alexander Evans, (@aiaevans) Professor in Practice and Programme Director MPA in Data Science at the School of Public Policy at LSE. A

Dr Mona Paulsen, Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. 

Chair:

Dr Rohan Mukherjee (@rohan_mukh), Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS. 

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