Date: Monday 10 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Room CLM.2.02, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Beth A. Simmons
Chair: Professor Peter Trubowitz

This lecture will discuss the rise of Global Performance Assessments (GPAs), and theorise how they exercise social influence through domestic, elite and transnational channels.

Beth Simmons is Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science at Penn Law, University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches international relations, international law and international political economy. She is best known for her research on international political economy during the interwar years, policy diffusion globally and her work demonstrating the influence that international law has on human rights outcomes around the world.

Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations, Head of Department, and Director of the US Centre at LSE. Peter is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs.

The Department of International Relations (@LSEIRDept) is now in its 88th year, making it one of the oldest, and largest, in the world.

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