The End of Free Markets? Economic statecraft in the age of geopolitics

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE IDEAS

Thursday 24 October 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Join Kathleen McNamara, Elizabeth Ingleson, Alexander Evans and Mona Paulson as they discuss whether current geopolitics means the age of free markets is really coming to an end.

For decades, neoliberal ideologies and interests elevated free markets over political interventions. Today however the United States and the European Union have dramatically reversed course with a variety of new policy initiatives. From technologies to fight climate change to efforts to develop silicon chips in competition with China, we are in a new age of industrial policy and geopolitical markets. What are the roots of this change, and will the new economic statecraft prove a success, or a failed experiment in deglobalisation?

Meet our speakers:

Professor Alexander Evans, (@aiaevans) Professor in Practice and Programme Director MPA in Data Science at the School of Public Policy at LSE. 

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (@lizingleson), Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. She specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press). 

Professor Kathleen R McNamara (@ProfKMcNamara), Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Global Political Economy Project. 

Dr Mona Paulsen, Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. 

Chair:

Dr Rohan Mukherjee (@rohan_mukh), Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS. 

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Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers

Hosted by Department of Gender Studies and Department of International Relations

Wednesday 30 October 2024 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Join us for the launch of Aiko Holvikivi’s Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers. This new book examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in peacekeeping situations, and with what political effects. Dr Holvikivi will provide introductory comments on the book, and panellists will offer their reflections on the topic, with the opportunity to participate in a Q&A afterwards. 

Meet our speakers

Dr Jasmine K Gani is Assistant Professor of International Relations Theory at LSE. She writes and teaches on (anti)colonialism, race, knowledge production, theory and history of IR, and ideologies and social movements in the Middle East. 

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 Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa is a Belgian Rwandan International Relations scholar and former journalist. 

Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. He is a political sociologist whose teaching and research critically interrogate gender and sexuality in relation to war, peace and conflict, as well as ethnicity, religion, and migration.

Chair

Dr Katharine Millar is an 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.

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Women in diplomacy

Monday 18 November 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

Join us to explore the implications of women’s under-representation in diplomacy and discuss possible steps to strengthen their representation. 

Women make up only one-fifth of the world’s ambassadors and are poorly represented in negotiations on many of the world’s most pressing problems, from peace to climate change. A panel of experienced diplomats will address the barriers and opportunities facing women in this field, and reveal how women operate within the gendered context of international diplomacy and the policy changes they may make as leaders.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Kirtbir Chahal is a policy and advocacy specialist with a background in international development and children’s rights. She is a Trustee of Save the Children UK.

Katharina Rauscher is Deputy Ambassador of Austria to the UK.

Nadia Theodore is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the World Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva.

Chair:

Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations at LSE. She is working on projects on women in foreign policy-making and diplomacy, and on the role of that emotions play in EU foreign policy-making.

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The global fight against LGBTI rights: how transnational conservative networks target sexual and gender minorities

Thursday 21 November 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm
PAN.G.01, LSE

In this event, Professor Phillip Ayoub (UCL) will discuss his newly published co-authored book, The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities (NYU Press, 2024).

The book shows how an increasingly interconnected and globally networked resistance, backed by religious-nationalist elements and conservative governments, has emerged to challenge LGBTI and women's rights around the world, even seeking to reinterpret and co-opt international human rights law. 

Meet our speaker and chair:

Professor Phillip M Ayoub, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, UCL

Chair:

Dr Milli Lake, Associate Professor of International Relations, LSE

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