Forged or fragmented? Europe in times of crisis

Thursday 22 January 2026 90 minutes

Co-hosted with the European Foreign Policy Unit 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.

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Decentering Emissions: How the developing world can shape the climate change agenda

Co-hosted with the Global School of Sustainability at LSE

Wednesday 21 January 2026 90 minutes

Our collective climate future is likely to be shaped by the development choices made by the vast majority of people in the developing world. Yet, the global climate policy conversation seldom asks what it would take for the Global South to align development with low-carbon and resilient futures.

This talk explores the intersection of climate and development. It examines different forms of national climate politics, how they intersect with development futures, and explore whether and how development choices can internalise climate concerns.

Meet our speaker

Navroz K Dubash is a Professor of Public and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative, New Delhi, which he helped co-found. 

Discussant

Kasia Paprocki is Associate Professor of Environment in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Her research is broadly concerned with political economies and ecologies of development, and the social movements that address them. Her work sheds light on the ways that development interventions and knowledge systems shape communities and landscapes.

Chair

Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA.

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