Current Events

International Relations, European Foreign Policy Unit and ANTERO Public Conversation:

Brexit and the EU Global Strategy

Date: Thursday 17 November 2016, 5.30 - 7.00pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Nathalie Tocci
Discussants: Professor Ben Tonra and Professor Sven Biscop
Chair: Professor Karen Smith

Undoubtedly Brexit has dealt a major blow, both to the UK's role in the world and that of the EU. As one, if not the, Member State with the most global outlook, the damage done both in terms of material capacities and reputation cannot be underestimated. At the same time some argue that the UK's exit from the EU would facilitate integration in the security and defence field. What are the prospects for the implementation of the EU Global Strategy following the UK referendum?

Nathalie Tocci (@NathalieTocci) is Deputy Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, Editor of The International Spectator and Special Adviser to EU HRVP Federica Mogherini, in charge of outreaching to think tanks and coordination of work on a new European Security Strategy.

Ben Tonra (@Bentonra) is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Associate Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

Sven Biscop is the Director of the Europe in the World programme at the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, the think tank associated with Belgian Foreign Affairs.

Karen Smith is Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit at LSE.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries see LSE Events FAQ or contact us at events@lse.ac.uk or 0207 955 6043.

Suggested hashtag for this event: #LSEBrexit

International Relations Public Lecture:

Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis

Date: Thursday 12 January 2017, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Deborah Welch Larson
Chair: Professor Toby Dodge

This lecture is part of the Department of International Relation's Foreign Policy Analysis lecture series on competing theoretical trends within Foreign Policy Analysis and the future development of the discipline.

Deborah Welch Larson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research draws on cognitive social psychology to explain foreign policy decision making, as in Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation (1985). She is the author most recently of Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War (1997), which uses social psychology to explain missed opportunities to mitigate U.S.-Soviet rivalry.

Toby Dodge (@ProfTobyDodge) is Associate Professor of International Relations, Director of the Middle East Centre and Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

For any queries e-mail s.wise3@lse.ac.uk or phone 0207 955 6821.

Suggested hashtag for this event: #LSEFPA

Call for Papers: Rethinking Revolutions

Date: Friday 26 May 2017
Venue: The London School of Economics and Political Science

This workshop seeks to bring together scholars and students working on revolutions from different disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. Sociology, International Relations, History, and Political Science), sub-fields (e.g. social movements, civil resistance, political violence), and perspectives (e.g. structural and strategic, quantitative and qualitative, constructivist and rationalist), in order to help advance the next generation of revolutionary studies.

Those interested in attending the workshop should send an abstract (c. 250 words) of their proposed paper to George Lawson and Daniel Ritter by 1 December 2016. Please note that the maximum number of participants at the workshop is 12. Full papers are due by 1 May 2017.

Download the Call for Papers for further information.