Earlier podcasts archive
from the Department of International Relations
Catch up with our events from earlier years
Book launch: A Green and Global Europe
Co-hosted by the European Foreign Policy Unit and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Thursday 8 December 2022
Speakers:
Dr Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and alumnus of LSE.
Professor Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at LSE and Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA.
Chair:
Dr Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.
In A Green and Global Europe Nathalie Tocci explains how the unprecedented nature of the current energy transition represents both a unique opportunity and a huge challenge to Europe’s future prosperity. The EU, she argues, must not act in isolation or ignore the adverse effects of the transition on member states and neighbours. It must also address the global cleavages that may arise with China, the transatlantic relationship and the Global South as a result of the EU’s green agenda.
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Fact and Fantasy: The Contemporary Politics of Science in International Relations
Thursday 17 November 2022 90 minutes
Speakers:
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service at American University Washington DC.
Professor Laura Sjoberg is British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.
Dr Sophie Rosenberg is a Fellow in the International Relations Department at LSE. She received her PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar from the University of Cambridge and has held academic roles at Cambridge and Oxford. Her research focuses on human rights, states' responses to mass atrocities, and the link between the epistemic domain, social media, and political violence.
Chair:
Dr Katharine Millar is Assistant Professor of International Relations at LSE.
In this conversation the speakers will explore the meaning and deployment of "facts" within international politics. What do we make of "alternative facts", such as the seeming rise of conspiracy theory, and frequently partisan polarisation of science? What should or shouldn't be considered science? Along the way, the speakers will also reflect on Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, and what ostensibly fantastic popular culture might tell us about truth in the present.
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A new international order in the making
Tuesday 25 October 2022 90 minutes
Speaker: Ms Arancha González, Dean, The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po.
Chair: Jeffrey M Chwieroth Professor of International Relations, LSE.
The current international order is under stress from climate change, major technological advances and more assertive authoritarian regimes (eg the war in Ukraine). What are the forces shaping the new international order, and how can it be shaped for people, the planet and shared prosperity?
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Chip War – the battle to control semi-conductors
Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE School of Public Policy
Monday 24 October 2022 90 minutes
Speaker: Dr Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School
Chair: Professor Alexander Evans OBE, Professor in Practice, LSE School of Public Policy
In this event Chris Miller discussed his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, with Alexander Evans.
Hijacking Women's Health
Department of International Relations Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2022
Tuesday 4 October 2022 90 minutes
Speaker: Sophie Harman, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches and conducts research into Global Health Politics, Africa and International Relations, gender and feminism, and Visual Politics.
Discussant: Marsha Henry, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, LSE
Chair: William A Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Women’s health is and always has been hijacked for political ends. The US Supreme Court overturning of Roe vs Wade is but another example of elites using the needless death of women to further their own political advantage.
In this year’s Fred Halliday lecture, Professor Sophie Harman sought to answer two fundamental questions: first, why do women die when they don’t have to? and second, what happens when we take the relationship between women’s health and global politics seriously?
To answer these two questions, Harman mapped key trends in how women’s health is used and abused for political advantage around the world; and offer a key provocation, that these trends are fundamental to understanding, and even predicting, the chaos and crisis the world finds itself in. Women and women’s health saw it coming.
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Find out more about the Fred Halliday Memorial Lectures.
LSE Festival 2022
The Future of the United NationsSaturday 18 June 2022 60 minutes
Hosted by LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World?
Speakers:
Martin Binder is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading and a member of their UN and Global Order Programme.
Devika Hovell is Associate Professor in Public International Law at LSE. Her current research includes an investigation of the UN Security Council’s authority and decision-making.
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government and Department of International Relations at LSE. His research interests focus on the governance of global issues, especially in the area of health and labour rights, and on the possibility of democratising global politics.
Chair:
Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Is the United Nations still able to perform its intended role as forum for global deliberation, negotiation, and policymaking? Multilateralism seems in crisis precisely when it is needed most. Challenges are multifaceted and originate from established, emerging and declining powers.
In his address to the UN Security Council in April 2022, President Zelenskyy of Ukraine said: "It is now clear that the goals set in San Francisco in 1945 during the creation of a global international security organisation have not been achieved. And it is impossible to achieve them without reforms. Therefore, we must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generations an effective UN with the ability to respond preventively to security challenges and thus guarantee peace."
What reforms could revitalise the UN and what are the prospects of them being enacted?
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This event was part of the running from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2022.
British foreign policy: are times a-changing?
Tuesday 22 March 2022 90 mins
Online public eventSpeakers:
Kate Ferguson is Co-Executive Director at Protection Approaches. She is Chair of Policy at the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and she is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her book, Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, was published in 2020.
Ben Tonra, Full Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Azure Security Forum and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Richard G Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations and a member of the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent.
Chair:
Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE.
What role is the UK embracing in its foreign policy? The invasion of Ukraine seems to have brought not only a new geopolitical environment, but also a re-evaluation of UK foreign policy priorities post-Brexit. What does this mean for the prospect of ‘Global Britain’? Is a British foreign policy outside the EU better able to set its own path or is it even more exposed to the vagaries of international politics? To what extent does the emerging security architecture in Europe suit British priorities? And are relations between the UK and the Republic of Ireland finally out of their recent rocky patch?
Watch the roundtable organised by the #NEWDIP project, the LSE Department of International Relations, and the European Foreign Policy Unit.
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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: from imperial bourgeoisie to post-communist middle class
Wednesday 16 March 2022 90 mins
Online public eventHosted by the Department of International Relations, International Inequalities Institute and Department of International History
Speaker:
Tomila Lankina, Professor of International Relations in LSE’s Department of International Relations.
Chair:
Vladislav Zubok is Professor in the Department of International History, LSE. His most recent book is Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union published with Yale University Press.
This event saw Tomila Lankina discuss her new book on the long shadow of inequalities and why it matters for democracy in Russia. The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class challenges the notion that the Soviet Union destroyed the social structure of the past and built a new, Soviet, society, with a new party and nomenklatura elite.
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Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities
Thursday 03 March 2022 90 mins
Online public eventHosted by the Department of International Relations and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Speakers:
Alina Averchenkova, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS.
Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor of International Development and Head of the Department of International Development at LSE.
Miriam Prys-Hansen, Lead Research Fellow and Head of Research Programme 4: Global Orders and Foreign Policies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).
Stacy Vandeveer, Professor of Global Governance and Human Security and Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance in the John C. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE. He serves as the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
In this event, which launched the new book on Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities, the panelists discussed how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.
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How Can Evidence-Based Policing Advance Police Reform Overseas?
Thursday 27 January 2022 (90 mins)
Online public eventSpeakers:
Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Centre on Evidence-Based Policing.
Ziyanda Stuurman, Policy Manager at the Abdul Latiff Jameel-Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL Africa) based at the University of Cape Town.
Chair:
Liam O'Shea, David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations
This inter-disciplinary event brings together criminologists and political scientists from the Global South and North to answer what actually works to improve policing not only in the West but also in non-Western contexts.
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The External Action of the European Union
Tuesday 30 November 2021 (90 mins)
Online public eventSpeakers:
Nora Fisher Onar, Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco.
Sieglinde Gstöhl, Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe.
Simon Schunz, Professor of EU International Relations and Diplomacy, College of Europe
Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Chair:
Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Watch the launch of a new book edited by Sieglinde Gstohl and Simon Schunz, The External Action of the European Union.
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Environmentalism and Global International Society
Tuesday 23 November 2021 (90 mins)
Online public and in person hybrid eventHosted by Department of International Relations and The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Speakers:
Steven Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance, University of Toronto.
Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); honorary professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities; a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas; and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor of International Development and Head of the Department of International Development at LSE.
Chair:
Dr Milli Lake, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the International Relations Department (Teaching and Learning)
In this launch event for the new book Environmentalism and Global International Society, the panelists discussed the extent to which international relations has been greened and whether international society is capable of addressing major ecological challenges.
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China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
Thursday 28 October 2021
Online public event (90 mins)Speakers:
Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor at the China Programme in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Beverley Loke, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter.
Joseph Chinyong Liow, Tan Kah Kee Professor in Comparative and International Politics, and Dean at the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chair:
Professor William A Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE
The ongoing global coronavirus pandemic has generated considerable worldwide debate concerning China's global leadership and international contribution. Discussing Benjamin Ho's new book, China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism, the event explored how China is currently engaged in a competition with the United States to demonstrate its superiority over the latter.
Dr Ho argues what is at work in this competition is the sense of Chinese exceptionalism, as Beijing claims to be good and better than the US and the West.
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Book Launch: Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia by Professor John Sidel
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Online public event (80 mins)Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre
SEAC hosted the book launch for the new title: Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia by Professor John Sidel. The event included a roundtable discussion of the work and its themes from three invited speakers.
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China's Environmental Foreign Relations
Thursday 30 September 2021
Online public event (90 mins)Hosted by LSE IDEAS, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the LSE Department of International Relations
Speakers:
Robert Falkner, Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute, LSE
Professor Judith Shapiro, Director, Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the American University
Heidi Wang-Kaeding, Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University
Chair:
William A Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Ahead of COP26 in November, LSE IDEAS' China Foresight Project, the Grantham Research Institute at LSE, and LSE's Department of International Relations co-hosted a panel discussing the evolution of China’s own understanding of the environment, the role of domestic stakeholders in shaping Chinese environmental diplomacy and Beijing’s role in the upcoming COP26.
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International Religious Freedom under the Biden Administration
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Online public lecture (90 mins)Hosted by the Department of International Relations, the Phelan United States Centre and the Religion and Global Society Unit
This roundtable discussion brings together experts from around the world to examine the Biden Administration’s approach to international religious freedom and the implications this has on American foreign policy.
Speakers and chair:
Judd Birdsall (@JuddBirdsall) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.
Courtney Freer (@courtneyfreer) is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a non-resident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution.
H A Hellyer (@hahellyer) FRSA is a Carnegie Endowment scholar, Fellow of Cambridge University’s Centre for Islamic Studies, and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
James Walters (@LSEChaplain) is Director of the LSE Religion and Global Society research unit and a senior lecturer in practice in the Department of International Relations.
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How propaganda works: from conflict to COVID-19
Wednesday 24 March 2021
Online public event (90 mins)Hosted by the Centre for International Studies
We were delighted to host a roundtable on the violence of propaganda—its histories and logics.
Speakers and chair:
Nicole/Yung Au is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Susan Benesch founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project, to study speech that can inspire violence and ways to prevent this.
Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Professor of Law and Anthropology at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Helena Ivanov is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at LSE.
Jens Meierhenrich is Director of the Centre for International Studies at LSE, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Relations.
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The Fred Halliday Memorial lecture
From Subject to Citizen - And Back: crises of the republicMonday 22 March 2021
Online public lecture (90 mins)This lecture explores how and why the symbolic investment in republican discourse and the building of republican institutions can be so detrimental to the rights of the very public that they are meant to represent, even embody.
A lecture in the series which celebrates the life and achievements of one of the world's leading Middle East scholars, international relations theorists and analysts of global affairs, Professor Fred Halliday.
Speaker:
Charles Tripp is a Professor Emeritus of Politics with reference to the Middle East and North Africa, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include the nature of autocracy, state and resistance in the Middle East, the politics of Islamic identity and the relationship between art and power. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of the public and the rethinking of republican ideals in Tunisia. Together with other colleagues he has been one of the founders of the Centre for Comparative Political Thought at SOAS.
Chair: Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of International Relations at LSE, and is Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.
Find out more about Fred Halliday and the memorial lectures
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Neither Settler nor Native: The Violence of the Nation-State
Wednesday 17 March 2021
Online public event (90 mins)Hosted by the Centre for International Studies
Mahmood Mamdani spoke with Elizabeth Frazer about his latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, Mamdani calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities.
Speaker, discussant and chair:
Mahmood Mamdani (@mm1124) is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, where he is also Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Citizen and Subject, When Victims Become Killers, and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim.
Elizabeth Frazer is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, where she is also an Official Fellow at New College.
Jens Meierhenrich is Director of the Centre for International Studies at LSE, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Relations.
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Women in International Thought
Wednesday 10 March 2021
Online public lecture - 60 minsThere is a rich history of scholarly work by women on International Relations that has often been ignored in the discipline. This event, taking place shortly after International Women’s Day, uncovers and explores women’s often foundational role in thinking about international politics.
Speakers:
Shruti Balaji is a PhD researcher in the International Relations Department at LSE, working on Indian women international thinkers in the late colonial period in India (c. 1920-50).
Michael Cox is Emeritus Professor of International Relations whose most recent work includes an introduction to a centennial edition of J.M Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace. He is currently working on a history of International Relations at LSE.
Patricia Owens is Director of the Leverhulme Research Project, Women and the History of International Thought and co-editor of Women’s International Thought: A New History.
Chair: Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of International Relations at LSE, and is Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.
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"World on the Edge": the crisis of the western liberal order
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Online public lecture - 90 minsThis event debates the crisis of the liberal order: is the cause of the crisis liberalism itself, or does it have as much to do with Trump and the rise of populism as anything else?
Speakers:
Beate Jahn is Professor of International Relations, Head of the Department of International Relations and President of the European International Studies Association (EISA).
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea.
Chair: Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE.
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Book Launch: 'Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines'
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre
Wednesday 10 February 2021
Online public event - 90 minsSEAC hosted a Book Launch for the 2020 book 'Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines', written by SEAC Associate Professor and International Relations Department faculty member John Sidel (Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at LSE) and Jaime Faustino (The Asia Foundation).
Imperialism and the Developing World
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Online public event - 90 minsProfessor Atul Kohli discusses the core themes covered in his latest book, Imperialism and the Developing World, with Dr Natalya Naqvi.
Speakers:
Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University.
Natalya Naqvi, assistant professor in International Political Economy at LSE.
Chair: Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.
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The Pandemic as a Portal: mobilization, activism and opportunities for structural change following crisis and upheaval
Thursday 19 November 2020
Online public event - 90 minsA burgeoning body of scholarship shows that activists can exploit opportunities created by war, upheaval, and economic collapse to leverage transformative social change. Precisely because they are so destructive, moments of crisis can upend existing social and political hierarchies and create new spaces for mobilization and structural change. How can activists leverage this moment to advance the representation and inclusion of communities most marginalized by status quo politics?
Speakers:
Grace Blakely, economics and politics commentator, activist and author. She is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine.
Aviah Sarah Day, lecturer in criminology at Birkbeck’s Department of Criminology.
Chrisann Jarrett, Co-founder and co-CEO of We Belong. In 2014, she founded the project Let Us Learn calling for equal access to higher education for young migrants living in the UK.
Shanice McBean, an activist in Sisters Uncut – a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services and state violence.
Sakina Sheikh, a Labour and Co-operative Party Councillor for the London Borough of Lewisham.
Natalya Naqvi, assistant professor in International Political Economy at LSE.
Chair: Milli Lake, associate professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations. She co-directs the Women's Rights After War project.
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Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations
Monday 26 October 2020
Online public event - 90 minsThe panel addressed four key questions related to International Relations as a mainstream academic discipline and racialised politics. Why might Black Lives Matter be a subject for scholars of IR or world politics? Has the discipline acknowledged its original sin in terms of erasing non-Western history in helping to shape international society? Has IR taken seriously the colonial histories that were constitutive of the formation of modern states? How can IR be democratised without wrestling with the history of racialised international political analysis and racism in general?
Speakers:
Nivi Manchanda, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in International Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of LondonOlivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Senior Lecturer in European and International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth
Musab Younis, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London
Christopher Murray, Lecturer in War and Conflict Studies at the Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia
Chair: Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations, LSE
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The World: a brief introduction
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Online public event - 1 hourSpeaker: Dr Richard N Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations
Discussant: Professor Peter Trubowitz, Department of International Relations, LSE
Chair: Minouche Shafik, Director of LSEDr Richard N Haass (@RichardHaass), president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses his new book, The World: A Brief Introduction, and the current state of the world - how we got here, where we're heading, and what it means for all of us.
Twilight of Democracy: the failure of politics and the parting of friends
Tuesday 28 July 2020
Online public event - 1 hourIn this online event with Anne Applebaum she discussed her new book, Twilight of Democracy. As well as a work of memoir and reporting, it is a deep meditation on the central political dilemma of our time: Why did the wave of enthusiasm for liberal democracy, shared across the political spectrum in the 1980s and 90s, come to an end? How did we come to be so divided? Why did everyone get so angry?
Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, which won the Cundill Prize and Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine which won the Lionel Gelber and Duff Cooper prizes. She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Chair: Mick Cox, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, and Director of LSE IDEAS.
Religious Communities under COVID-19: the first pandemic of the postsecular age?
Thursday 25 June 2020
Online public eventpart of LSE's public event series -Religious gatherings have been identified as a major sites of transmission raising tensions in many countries between believers and the secular authorities seeking to regulate them. But many people are also searching for meaning and faith groups have adapted to online worship and support to meet the need for hope and connection in the face of suffering and isolation. How will COVID-19 reshape the religious landscape in the future?
Speakers:
Elizabeth Oldfield, Director of the Theos Think Tank.
Professor Azza M Karam, Secretary General elect of Religions for Peace International
Dr James Walters, Director of LSE Religion and Global Society Research Unit and Senior Lecturer in Practice in the Department of International Relations
Chair: Dr Katerina Dalacoura, Associate Professor in International Relations, LSE
COVID-19 and Africa: pandemics and global politics
Monday 1 June 2020
Online public event
organised by LSE IDEASA panel of leading African commentators will reflect on the global response to the health dimensions of the pandemic in Africa.
Speakers
Assis Malaquias is Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Studies and Maritime Affairs at the California State University (Maritime).
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is the Chief Executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs.
Folashadé Soulé-Kondou is a Senior Research Associate in International Relations at the University of Oxford (Blavatnik School of Government).
Chris Alden is Co-Director of the Global South Unit and Professor in International Relations at LSE.
A World Parliament: government and democracy in the 21st century
When: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Speakers:
Andreas Bummel, Director of Democracy Without Borders and the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly
Theresa Squatrito, Assistant Professor in International Relations, LSE
Chair: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Associate Professor (Reader) in Global Politics, LSE
Global challenges such as war, poverty, inequality and climate change are overwhelming nation-states and today’s international institutions. Can the creation of a democratic world parliament help achieve a peaceful, just and sustainable world community?
LSE Festival 2020: Shape The World
Propaganda and Democratic ResistanceWhen: Wednesday 4 March 2020
Speakers:
Dr Shakuntala Banaji, associate professor of media and communications, LSE
Darren Moon, Senior Learning Technologist in the LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement
Peter Pomerantsev, senior fellow in the Institute for Global Affairs, LSEChair: Professor William Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE
This round table brought together experts on propaganda and the Internet to explore the populist problem presented by "fake news" – and how we can resist it.
The Susan Strange Lecture 2020:
The International Political Economy: sources of nuclear proliferationWhen: Thursday 13 February 2020
Speaker: Professor Etel Solingen, the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California Irvine and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor, 2019-20 at LSE.
Chair: Professor Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations, LSE
The 2020 Susan Strange lecture paid tribute to Professor Strange's contributions by focusing on the international political economy dimensions of nuclear choices, for or against nuclear weapons.
Whereas relative power and security dilemmas have dominated the study of nuclear proliferation for decades, an approach centered on the "cui bono" (who benefits) question reveals how domestic distributional implications related to the global economy have systematic effects on states’ nuclear choices.
The Pentagon's Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change and War
Hosted by LSE's Shape the World Series
When: Wednesday 29 January 2020
Speaker: Professor Neta C Crawford, professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University
The Pentagon was a leader, in the 1980s and 1990s, in United States in recognizing climate change as a looming security concern. The DOD has thus prepared for climate change with plans for responding to climate caused disruption to operations. The DoD is also predicting and preparing for climate change caused war. What are the security threats that will flow from climate change? Is ‘climate war’ inevitable?
The Hedley Bull Lectures: The Present, Past and Future of Civil War
Hosted by the Centre for International Studies
The comparative study of civil wars has proceeded largely on the basis of the assumption that they are fundamentally of the same type. A research focus on the post-WWII period has been dictated by the needs of quantitative analysis. In contrast, in this Hedley Bull lecture series, Professor Kalyvas explored the macro-temporal variation of civil wars.
Speaker:
Professor Stathis Kalyvas, the Gladstone Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
The Present of Civil War
Monday 18 November 2019What types of civil wars dominate after WWII - and why.
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The Past of Civil War
Wednesday 20 November 2019The pre-WWII past, going back as far as the American War of Independence.
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The Future of Civil War
Friday 22 November 2019Do we still live in the present, as far as civil wars are concerned, and what the future might hold.
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The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: industrial policy and the IMF in Global Economic Governance
Hosted by the Departments of International Relations and International Development
When: Tuesday 19 November 2019
Speakers:
Reda Cherif, Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Fuad Hasanov, Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University.
Natalya Naqvi, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at LSE
Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development in the Department of International Development at LSE.
Jostein Hauge, economist and a Research Associate at the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the University of CambridgeAfter decades of neglect, industrial policy is making a comeback at key institutions for global economic governance. The authors of a seminal IMF paper on modern industrial policy in an era of globalisation will present their recent work on this controversial topic.
Book launch roundtable: The International Politics of the Asia Pacific
Hosted by the Department of International Relations
When: Wednesday 13 November 2019
Speakers:
Michael Yahuda, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, LSE
Christopher R Hughes, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Yuka Kobayashi, Assistant Professor in China and International Politics at SOAS, University of London
Chair: William A Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Martin Wight Memorial Lecture
Sovereignty as ResponsibilityHosted by the Department of International Relations
When: Monday 11 November 2019
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Welsh, Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University (Montreal, Canada)Listen to or download the podcast
Book launch: Anatomies of Revolution
Hosted by LSE IDEAS and the Department of International Relations
When: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Speakers:
Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University, London
Mary Kaldor,Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit at the Department of International Development, LSE
George Lawson, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE
Stephen M Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University
Chair: Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at LSE
Some of the world's best-known and most acute scholars of revolution will discuss the main themes that emerge from George Lawson's Anatomies of Revolution during this roundtable.
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Arguing about immigration
Monday 21 October 2019
Hosted by the Centre for International Studies
Professor Michael Walzer focused on the US debate, arguing against open borders but asked the UK and the US to consider their current immigration policies. He also issued a warning about future refugees and immigrants generated by global warming for which the US and UK are unprepared.
Speaker:
Professor Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, one of the world's most eminent international theorists.
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No Longer Special? The Death of Anglo-America?
Public debate hosted by LSE IDEAS and the Department of International Relations
When: Thursday 3 October 2019
Speakers:
Professor G John Ikenberry, Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University;
Dr Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General at the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
Professor Linda Yueh, Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS
Chair: Professor Michael Cox, Director LSE IDEASListen to or download the podcast
The Wealth Effect: how the great expectations of the middle class have changed the politics of banking crises
Hosted by the Systemic Risk Centre
Date: Thursday 4 April 2019
Speakers:
Jeffrey Chwieroth, Professor of International Political Economy, Department of International Relations, LSE
Andrew Walter, Professor of International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne (and formally Reader in International Political Economy at LSE)
LSE Festival: Protesting Inequalities
Hosted by LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders
Date: Saturday 2 March 2019
Speakers: Bird la Bird, Dr Aviah Sarah Day, Dr Armine Ishkanian, Professor Tomila Lankina, Dr Olga Onuch
Chair: Professor Bev Skeggs
International Liberalism and its Discontents
Department of International Relations Public Lecture
Date: Thursday 31 January 2019
Speaker: Professor Stephan HaggardListen to or download the podcast
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
Department of International Relations and United States Centre Public Lecture
Date: Thursday 17 January 2019
Speaker: Professor John J MearsheimerListen to or download the podcast
History, Memory, Politics in Democratisation Research: a personal and professional journey
International Relations Public Lecture
Date: Thursday 18 October 2018
Speaker: Professor Tomila LankinaListen to or download the podcast
The Struggle for the Arab World
International Relations public lecture
Date: Tuesday 24 April 2018
Speaker: Professor Fawaz Gerges
Chair: Professor John SidelListen to or download the podcast
Diversifying IR: Gender, Race, and Class
International Relations roundtable
Date: Wednesday 21 March 2018
Speakers: Dr Jennifer Eggert, Dr Anissa Haddadi, Dr Kerem Nisancioglu, Professor Robbie Shilliam, Professor Karen E. Smith, and Dr Joanne Yao
Chair: Andrew DelatollaListen to or download the podcast
Two Minutes to Midnight: International Relations in the Shadow of Doomsday
Second annual International Relations roundtable
Date: Monday 19 March 2018
Speakers: Dr Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Dr Axel Marx, Professor Kathleen McNamara, and Dr Lauren Wilcox
Chair: Professor Peter TrubowitzListen to or download the podcast
Populism: A Global Perspective
International Relations Fred Halliday memorial roundtable
Date: Monday 5 February 2018
Speakers: Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Firdevs Robinson, Professor Robert Singh
Chair: Professor Toby DodgeMore information
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Partners or Adversaries? Managing US-China Relations in the Era of Trump
International Relations public lecture from the department's inaugural Susan Strange Professor in International Relations
Date: Thursday 16 November 2017
Speaker: Professor Michael Mastanduno
Discussant: Dame Minouche Shafik
Chair: Professor Peter TrubowitzMore information
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Afghanistan in Global Affairs: New Histories and Perspectives
International Relations and South Asia Centre public roundtable
Date: Thursday 19 October 2017
Speakers: Dr Dawood Azami, Dr Martin Bayly, Dr Elisabeth Leake, Dr Timothy Nunan
Chair: Professor Christopher CokerMore information
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Beyond Gridlock
Date: Thursday 5 October 2017
Speakers: Thomas Hale and Professor David Held
Chair: Mathias Koenig-ArchibugiMore information
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Public Opinion, Legitimacy and Tony Blair’s War in Iraq
Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
Speakers: Dr James Strong, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman and Professor Juliet Kaarbo
Chair: Professor Toby DodgeMore information
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