The book offers an innovative perspective on how communities in Central Eurasia - including Belarus, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia - display a much higher degree of resilience. This is based on centuries-long traditions, social memory, ideas of community and culture to nurture resilience in the face of poverty, climate emergency, conflict, and war. Rather than treating resilience as a mere policy tool, the study reframes it as a complex, communal process of identity, relations-building and a political agency, with capabilities to design more sustainable futures and a lesson for all social and political actors across the globe in the Anthropocene.
Professor Korosteleva's talk will be followed by a discussion with IR scholars and Q&A.
Meet our speaker
Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD). In April 2024 Elena was appointed Chair for the Sustainability Spotlight, Warwick-wide interdisciplinary research-focused network to address planetary challenges collectively; and in July 2024 she was elected to be a member of the Scientific Council for COP29.
Discussants
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster.
Teona Giuashvili is the DINAM Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE, pursuing research on EU foreign policy towards Eastern Europe and on the political and security implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine for the EU, NATO and the Black Sea region.
Emilian Kavalski is Professor of International Relations at Tampere University in Finland.
Chair
Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Europe in a post-liberal world Conversation with Pedro Serrano, the EU Ambassador to the UK
Co hosted by the Department of International Relations with the European Institute and the European Foreign Policy Unit
Wednesday 18 February 2026 90 minutes
Join Pedro Serrano, the European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom, at this event to discuss Europe in a post-liberal world.
Today, the founding principles of the international liberal order – the rule of law, democracy, free trade, and collective security – are being challenged in a world where military force, zero-sum competition, and the weaponisation of interdependence increasingly define international relations.
Meet our speaker
Pedro Serrano is the European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Discussants
Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her current research focuses on contemporary trends in European diplomacy, especially in relation to the digitalisation of diplomacy and developments in European foreign policy cooperation.
Spyros Economides is Associate Professor in International Relations. His current research concentrates on: the ‘West’ in contemporary international relations; the external relations and security policies of the EU; Europeanisation and foreign policy, and the EU’s relationship with the Western Balkans.
Chair
Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations Theory in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
Jean Monnet envisioned that the joint pursuit of practical solutions to common challenges can reinforce European integration. In recent years, the EU has confronted a poly-crisis, as overlapping threats and challenges have increasingly compounded one another.
The event explores how today’s strategic landscape, including Russia’s war against Ukraine, hybrid campaigns, a volatile transatlantic relationship and intensifying geo-economic competition, is affecting Europe’s priorities, European politics and European integration. Will the existing threats and challenges forge a more united Europe or splinter it?
Meet our speakers
Mikaela Gavas is the Managing Director of The Center for Global Development (CDG) Europe and a Senior Policy Fellow.
Caroline de Gruyter is a Member of the Board of Bruegel and a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and Director of the UK in a Changing Europe project. His areas of research interest include the policies and institutions of the European Union, European security, and British politics.
Chair: Teona Giuashvili is the DINAM Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
8 March 2023: Foreign Policy in the Digital Age: What to Expect co-hosted by the European Foreign Policy Unit and the Department of International Relations
Speakers: Sarah Bressan, Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin Dr Corneliu Bjola, Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies, University of Oxford Nicola Minasi, Director of the Crisis Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Chair: Dr Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.
Is the increasing use of digital technologies in foreign policy fundamentally altering the way in which foreign policy is made and implemented? How are digital technologies contributing to reshape geopolitics? To what extent do digital technologies enhance international cooperation? Can they support multilateralism, or do they create new digital divides and even a new form of colonialism? Listen to a conversation between a practitioner, a think tanker and an academic to help us understand the future (and the present) of digital foreign policy.
8 December 2022: Book launch: A Green and Global Europe With Dr Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and alumnus of LSE, Professor Robert Falkner, Professor of IR at LSE, and chaired by Dr Federica Bicci, Associate Professor of IR and Director of the EFPU. Find out more Listen to the podcast (90 mins)
5 September 2022: UK and Irish Foreign Policy: Aprés le Brexit, le Déluge With Bobby McDonagh, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Professor Brigid Laffan, Professor Juliet Kaarbo, and Dr Federica Bicchi. NEWDIP Rountable. Watch a recording of this event here.
22 March 2022 : British Foreign Policy: Are Times A-Changing? With Richard Whitman (University of Kent), Dr Kate Ferguson (Protection Approaches), Professor Ben Tonra (UCD), and Dr Federica Bicchi (LSE), NEWDIP online event. Watch a recording of this event here.
30th of November 2021: The External Action of the European Union, EFPU Book launch - event with Nora Fisher Onar (University of San Francisco), Sieglinde Gstohl (College of Europe Bruges), Simon Schunz (College of Europe Bruges), Karen E. Smith (LSE), Federica Bicchi (LSE).
24th of March 2021: European States at the United Nations: New Horizons, NEWDIP event with Political Director Sonja Hyland, Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Amb.Vincent Guérand, French Ambassador to Ireland; and Amb.Paul Johnston, British Ambassador to Ireland. Watch the video recordingor listen to the podcast recordingof the event.
7th of July 2020: EU, WTO and regulatory cooperation post-Covid19, NORTIA roundtable with Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford & St. Anthony´s), Ignacio Garcia-Bercero (DG Trade & St. Anthony´s College, University of Oxford), and Alasdair Young (Georgia Tech).
23rd of June 2020: How to organise your Phd and think about publishing, NORTIA professionalisation roundtable with Heidi Maurer (University of Bristol), Irina Petrova (University of Kent), Daniel Schade (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg), Ana Juncos (University of Bristol, associate editor Journal of European Integration), Richard Whitman (University of Kent, editor Journal of Common Market Studies).
16th of June 2020: Celebrating 50 years of European foreign policy scholarship: what classics to read?NORTIA Exchange with Richard Whitman (University of Kent), Maxine David (University of Leiden), Paula Lamoso (University of Vigo), Nele Ewers-Peters (University of Kent), Tony Haastrup (University of Stirling) and Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen).
2nd of June 2020: Covid-19, the EU and geopolitics, NORTIA roundtablewith Federica Bicchi (LSE), Ben Tonra (UCD), Helene Sjursen (ARENA), Kolja Raube (KU Leuven), Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford).
26th of May 2020: Does size matter? Foreign policy lessons from European responses to Covid19, NORTIA roundtablewith Heidi Maurer (University of Bristol), Niels Willigen (University of Leuven), Oriol Costa (IBEI Barcelona), Magdalena Gora (Jagellonian University Krakow), and Tomas Weiss (Charles University Prague).
9th of June 2019: The development of EU foreign policy, NORTIA keynote by Sir Robert Cooper (LSE), with Helene Sjursen (ARENA) and Ben Tonra (UCD).
2nd of February 2018: The EU and UN Multilateralism, lecture by Prof Katie Verlin Laatikainen. This event was part of the EUN-NET Network - project.
15th of January 2018: How Brexit Contributes to the Collapse of Multilaterism, lecture by Prof Jan Wouters (Leuven University). A public event in the EUN-NET Network - series.
15th of November 2017: Framing the EU's Global Strategy, brown-bag lunch seminar by LSE alumna Dr Nathalie Tocci (International Affairs Institute in Rome Italy).
12th of May 2017: Symposium in Honour of Professor Christopher Hill, symposium hosted by the LSE International Relations Department and the European Foreign Policy Unit. Read more about the symposium here.
9th of March 2016: Brexit and EU Foreign Policy: the view from other EU member states, roundtable with Ben Tonra, Stephen Keukeleire, Annegret Bendiek, Christian Lequesne and Petr Kratochvil. Read more about the roundtable here.
15th of December 2015: European Diplomatic Practices: Contemporary Challenges and Innovative Approaches, workshop organised by LSE Department of International Relations, European Foreign Policy Unit, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read more about the workshop here.
27th of November 2015:Myanmar and the International Community, European Foreign Policy Unit chaired a session in the workshop that focused on the EU.Read more about EFPU's involvement here.
14th of May 2015: Are EU sanctions effective?Workshop organised by the European Foreign Policy Unit. Read more about the workshop here.
28th of January 2015: The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor, workshop organised by the LSE International Relations Department, European Foreign Policy Unit, and the Vesalius College Brussels. Read more about the workshop and watch video recordings of the talks here.
