Susan Strange memorial lecture series
A lecture series which celebrates the life and achievements of Professor Susan Strange, the highly influential figure in the academic field of International Relations in late twentieth-century Britain and a world-leading thinker on international political economy.
Susan Strange (1923-1998) held the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at LSE from 1978-88 and was a world renowned leader of the field. She had studied at LSE and become a journalist before returning to academia. As a professor at LSE, she published her most influential books and founded the British International Studies Association. Later, she became the third woman and first Briton to hold the Presidency of the International Studies Association in the United States.
- Read Professor Patricia Owens' blog post about Susan Strange
- Read a brief history of the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at LSE and its occupants
- Read Emeritus Professor Margot Light's reminiscences about studying and working in the Department of International Relations at LSE in the 1970s and 1980s
- Read Nat Dyer's introduction to Susan Strange's life and work (external)
- Read other articles by Nat Dyer about Susan Strange's life and work (external)
Rituals and the Making of International Society
Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2022
Thursday 1 December 2022
Speaker: Thierry Balzacq, Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2022/23 at LSE, Professor at the Center for International Studies, SciencesPo.
Chair: Jeffrey Chwieroth, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Diplomatic apologies, joint military exercises, gift giving, and global summits, are assumed to be some of the most iconic rituals of world politics. However, many actions that are achieved by means of rituals can be enacted otherwise. What criteria, then, do scholars employ to say that an action or an event is a ritual, and what difference (if any) does it make to its character as well as to its efficacy?
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The International Political Economy: sources of nuclear proliferation
Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2020
Thursday 13 February 2020
Speaker: Etel Solingen, 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: Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.
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.
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International Liberalism and its Discontents
Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2019
Thursday 31 January 2019
Speaker: Stephan Haggard, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2018/19, LSE.
Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, LSE
Liberal internationalism is on the defensive across the West. Stephan Haggard examines the causes of this backlash and its global implications.
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Partners or Adversaries? Managing US-China Relations in the Era of Trump
Department of International Relations inaugural Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2017
Thursday 16 November 2017
Speaker: Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A Rockefeller Professor of Government, Dartmouth College and the inaugural Susan Strange Professor of International Relations at LSE, 2017/18.
Discussant: Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE.
Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, LSE
The post-Cold War US-China "grand bargain" in economics and security is now unravelling, and faces new uncertainty in the era of Trump.
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