Date: Wednesday 7 October 2015
Time: 2-3.30pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Dr Javier Solana
Respondent: Professor Lord Giddens
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor

In this lecture Dr Javier Solana will outline the challenges the EU faces as it attempts to grapple with an economic crisis which has not yet subsided, unseen flows of refugees and war in Ukraine. The EU is currently dealing with a situation where the lines between external and internal security have become dangerously blurred. Dr Solana will analyse both these and other challenges facing the European project, of a more political nature. These issues are also examined in ESADEgeo’s recent edited e-book The Global Context: How Politics, Investment, and Institutions Impact European Businesses, published as a part of the European Commission’s Jean Monnet project MEKBiz.

Javier Solana is president of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona-Madrid), and distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. From 1999 to 2009, Dr Solana was Secretary General of the Council of the European Union (EU) and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the EU; and from 1995 to 1999, Secretary General of NATO.

Anthony Giddens is former Director of the LSE. His most recent book is Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe.

Professor Mary Kaldor is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at LSE.

The Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit (@SiTransition) is a research unit in the Department of International Development at LSE (@LSE_ID). The Department promotes interdisciplinary post-graduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change.

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