25 Years Beyond 1325: Reimagining the UN Women, Peace & Security Agenda

Wednesday 8 October 2025
5.30pm to 7.00pm
Hong Kong Theatre (Clement House), LSE

Hosted by LSE Gender, LSE International Relations, the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and the Canadian Research Network on Women, Peace and Security

This roundtable marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Women, Peace, and Security Agenda with a critical yet constructive lens.

Bringing together four leading experts in the policy, practical, and conceptual aspects of gender and international security, the discussion will examine the Agenda’s legacy—its milestones, limitations, and the tensions that have shaped its trajectory.

Meet our speakers and chair

Dr Nancy Annan is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University.

Dr Aiko Holvikivi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies and an Associate Academic at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE. 

Dr Paul Kirby is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. 

Professor Stéfanie von Hlatky is the Canada Research Chair on Gender, Security, and the Armed Forces, Full Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, and Fellow with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Chair:

Dr Katharine Millar is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

This public event is free and open to all but you must register for a free ticket. Please note that a ticket does not guarantee entry depending on capacity.

For any queries, email ir.events@lse.ac.uk

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US-Iran under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges

Wednesday 15 October 2025
6.30pm-8pm
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)

This event will examine how a second Trump administration might reshape US-Iran relations and regional security—whether through renewed maximum pressure, diplomatic engagement, or military action to contain Iran’s nuclear and military ambitions.

The Middle East that Donald Trump left in 2021 is vastly different from the one he re-enters in 2025. Since 7 October, the region’s strategic landscape has shifted dramatically, leaving Iran at its weakest and most isolated position since 1979. Economic turmoil, internal dissent, and regional setbacks—amid mounting US and Israeli pressure—have further exposed Tehran’s vulnerabilities.

Meet our speakers and chair

Dana H Allin is Editor of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy and Senior Fellow at the IISS, based in London. He is also Adjunct Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center in Italy. He comments and writes widely on the strategic challenges and historical, political and social roots of US foreign policy.

Anahita Motazed Rad is a visiting senior sellow in the Department of International Relations. She has translated and published two books from English to Persian, the first one Who won the oil wars? by Andy Stern in 2010, and the second one Meditation on Diplomacy, Comparative Cases in Diplomatic Practice and Foreign Policy by Stephen Chan in 2020.

Sanam Vakil is the Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Her expertise spans Iranian and Gulf politics, regional security dynamics, and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the evolving strategic landscape of the Middle East and its global connectivity.

Chair:

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

This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

For the in person event: You can request one ticket via the online ticket request form, which will open after 12 noon on Monday 22 September. The ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

For the online event: Registration for this event will open in early September.

For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk.

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Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why?

Thursday 16 October 2025
6.30pm to 8.00pm
Hong Kong Theatre (Clement House), LSE

Hosted by LSE IDEAS, LSE Department of International Relations and the LSE Phelan United States Centre

What explains the alignment choices of Southeast Asian states amidst the US-China rivalry and what are the implications of these choices for the region?

Meet our speaker

Yuen Foong Khong is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was formerly Professor of International Relations and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Chair

Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations at LSE, and is also Head of LSE's Phelan United States Centre 

This public event is free and open to all but pre-registration is required. Click here to register for the event.

For any queries, email ideas.events@lse.ac.uk

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Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis

Wednesday 22 Oct 2025 6.30pm - 8pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

As the Liberal International Order faces an accelerating crisis of legitimacy – marked by escalating tariff wars, militarism, and inequalities – new questions are emerging about the state and future of a rapidly changing world order. To date, most of these conversations have centred the global North. This event takes a different path: it explores how the current moment looks when viewed from across the global South, recognising these perspectives as diverse and essential, not uniform and secondary. 

Meet our speakers

Dr Ilias Alami is Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development in the Centre of Development Studies, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Lina Benabdallah is McCulloch Family Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the department of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. Her book Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations was published in 2020 by Michigan Press University.

Dr Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history, and the politics of empire, race and knowledge production.

Dr Jenna Marshall is Lecturer in International Studies at King's College London. Jenna completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where she explored Pan-African social movements and political contestations of development agendas in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Discussant

Dr Giulia Sciorati is an LSE Fellow in China and the Global South, in the Department of International Relations at LSE.

Chair

Dr Shikha Dilawri is LSE Fellow in International Relations Theory 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.

For any queries email ir.events@lse.ac.uk.

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The Trump administration and US national security: taking stock

Wednesday 19 November 2025
6.30pm-8pm
In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)

A year after the US public voted to return Donald Trump to the Oval Office, in what ways have President Trump, his administration’s top officials, and other notable surrogates broken with his predecessor’s national security narrative and offered their own coherent narrative in its stead?

Meet our speakers and chair

Elizabeth Ingleson is Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. Elizabeth specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. 

Ronald Krebs is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His primary focus is international conflict and security. 

Katharine Millar is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her broad research interests lie in examining the gendered cultural narratives underlying political violence and the modern collective use of force. 

Luca Tardelli is Associate Professor (Education) in International Relations. His research focuses on international security, military intervention, and US foreign policy. 

Rohan Mukherjee is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS in the Department of International Relations at LSE. His research focuses on rising powers and how they navigate the power and status hierarchies of international order. 

This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

In-person: You can request one ticket via the online ticket request form, which will be open after 12 noon on Monday 13 October. The ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated.

Online: Registration will open in early October.

For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk.

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