CIS News Archive

CIS Visiting Professor in Practice Lutfey Siddiqi delivered a keynote address at The 2nd Annual ASEAN Regulatory Summit on 1 September 2016. Hosted by Thomson Reuters, the summit welcomed Lutfey to discuss 'Global Financial Regulation and its implications for ASEAN'.

For further information on the summit, visit the event webpage.

Video and text of the keynote is available here.

CIS Visiting Professor in Practice Lutfey Siddiqi joined the Straits Times’ Future Economy Roundtable in Singapore in August. The roundtable series fed into the Singapore government’s Committee on the Future Economy (CFE).

You can watch a full video of the roundtable here.

On 14 July 2016, CIS Fellows Linda Hantrais and Ashley Lenihan organised a workshop to discuss International Social Research Training Needs.

Research managers and policy advisers in government departments and agencies, think tanks, survey organisations, social research institutions, the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, What Works Centres and other non-academic institutions were invited to explore the issues raised in accessing, analysing and interpreting international data, and brokering knowledge transfer between researchers and policymakers.

The training needs identified at the workshop will form the basis for proposals for different forms of training provision to be delivered over the next 18 months in London and the regions.

For more information, contact the organisers.

CIS Fellows Linda Hantrais and Ashley Lenihan have published a CIS Working Paper on 'The Implications of the EU Referendum for UK Social Science: Post-referendum Options for UK Social Scientists'. You can read the paper here.

CIS Fellow Ashley Lenihan, and co-author Sharon Witherspoon, have article 'UK social science will be dealt a serious blow by Brexit' published on the Guardian Online. You can read the full article here.

CIS Fellow Giorgio Shani was a programme chair at the 2016 ISA Asia Pacific Conference in Hong Kong. Taking place 25-27 June, the conference investigated the ways in which IR (as both practice and theory) is being transformed in the Asia-Pacific. It was a great success, and the largest in the region's history, with over 400 attendees.

For further information, visit the conference web page.

On June 10 2016, Tomila Lankina organised a workshop on Citizen Preferences, Political Mobilization, Institutional Change, and Regime Stability in Russia and Ukraine.  The workshop received generous funding from the British Academy (Mid-Career Fellowship awarded to Tomila Lankina), the CIS, and the LSE International Relations Department.  Sophie Wise, the IRD's events manager, provided excellent organisational support for the event.

The one-day workshop brought together leading scholars of Russia and Ukraine who have conducted rigorous empirical research of relevance to the Euromaidan protests, the war in the Donbas and the ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine.

For full details of the event, read the event programme.

CIS Fellow Dr David Rampton published A long view of liberal peace and its crisis, with co-author Suthaharan Nadarajah, in the European Journal of International Relations (OnlineFirst).

Tomila Lankina launched a website for her research project “Political Mobilization and Democracy”. The project was part-funded by the CIS and developed in collaboration with CIS Fellow Yulia Netesova. The project investigates the dynamics of popular mobilization in Russia and Eurasia.

CIS Fellow Dr Ludovica Marchi published The EU’s Role in Developing Security Cooperation with Myanmar at the ASEAN Regional Forum: 2004-2008 in the journal European Security  (forthcoming imminently).

CIS Manager Dr Jill Stuart was interviewed on BBC World Service 'Newshour Extra' for a programme titled Reaching for the Stars, as well as BBC World Service 'The Documentary' for a programme titled Star Wars.

Dr Kirsten Ainley co-hosted a seminar at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard on ‘Transitional Justice: Success, Failure and the Case of Sri Lanka’ on 31st August 2015.

CIS Fellows Linda Hantrais and Ashley Thomas Lenihan have edited a special issue of ‘Contemporary Social Science’ on International and Interdisciplinary Insights into Evidence and Policy. Read about the issue here.

Dr George Lawson and Professor Barry Buzan published The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations, Cambridge University Press 2015. Engage in the discussion at The Global Transformation: A Response.

Professor William Callahan produced a film of academics and artists discussing the meaning of ‘China Dreams’, to accompany his new book, China Dreams.

Dr Jill Stuart won the British Science Association's 2015 Margaret Mead Award Lecture.

Dr Jill Stuart  published an article in the Financial Times titled 'Global satellite industry must invest in cyber security'.

Dr Stephen Humphreys published an article in the Guardian titled ’International Law Stays Silent on the Responsibility for Climate Change’. 

Dr Kirsten Ainley, Director of the CIS, was interviewed on challenges to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine at the Hague Institute for Global Justice.

Dr Heather Jones appeared on Radio 4 in ‘The Great War of Words”. Dr Jones is a specialist in First World War Studies with a particular interest in the evolution of wartime violence and the cultural impact of the conflict in Britain, France, Germany and Italy.

The History and Theory Group was established by Dr James Morrison as part of the Centre for International Studies. For details of the launch event, see the Group’s web page here.

Professor Catherine Boone appeared on the LSE Institute for Public Affairs ‘Gearty Grillings’ series – watch the video here.

Dr Tarak Barkawi wrote on The Globalisation of the Hollywood War Film: ‘On film, death in war is part of a rational and moral order. The bad guys mostly die, and if the good ones do too, their sacrifice is purposeful and worthwhile, not random. Only in this way can the war film become a vehicle to tell stories about the nation, about its purpose and meaning in the world.’

Dr Kirsten Ainley, Director of the Centre for International Studies, spoke at a conference at Leeds University on the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect. Audio available here.

Dr Stephen Humphreys’ book Theatre of the Rule of Law: Transnational Legal Intervention in Theory and Practice was published in paperback.

Dr Ayça Çubukçu published “The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity,” Journal of Human Rights, special issue on Humanitarianism and Responsibility, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 40-58.

Dr Tomila Lankina co-wrote an article on the Washington Post blog The Monkey Cage called ‘What Putin gets about soft power’. Read it here.

Dr Timo Fleckenstein published The politics of postindustrial social policy: family policy reforms in Britain, Germany, South Korea, and Sweden with Soohyun Christine Lee in Comparative Political Studies, 47 (4). 601-630.

Dr George Lawson published The global transformation: the nineteenth century and the making of modern international relations with Barry Buzan in International Studies Quarterly, 57 (3). 620-634.

Dr Katerina Dalacoura published Homosexuality as cultural battleground in the Middle East: culture and postcolonial international theory in Third World Quarterly.

Professor Danny Quah posted ‘How We Choose Our Political Leaders Tells the World a Lot About Us’ on his blog.