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- Theresa Squatrito has published an article in Regulation & Governance entitled Informal governance and transnational access in world politics.
- Dr Irene Morlino, LSE Fellow, was recently received the first Dominique Jacquin-Berdal PhD Prize for her outstanding thesis entitled “Assessing the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid. The cases of Myanmar, Lebanon, Mozambique.”
- LSE Fellow Dr Jonny Hall's latest publication "The War on Terror and the Victory Trap" in Foreign Policy Analysis.
- Read Stephanie Schwartz's latest publication "Do Ethics Matter to Researchers? Introducing the Ethics References in Conflict Studies (ERICS) Dataset" in the Journal of Global Security Studies.
- Watch Professor Fawaz Gerges' video about his new book, What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East.
Also watch Professor Fawaz Gerges' interview with CNN about the consequences of Israel targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
- PhD Candidate Mariah Thornton has recently published a piece for Taiwan Insight, "Optimism from One Island to Another: Prospects for UK-Taiwan Relations Under the New Labour Government.
- PhD Candidate Chris Deacon has published an article in International Studies Quarterly, "Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International 'History Wars' and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations."
- Read Katharine M Millar's co-written article in Security Studies "Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy".
She has also joined the Freedom Online Coalition-Advisory Network and is the research co-lead on a Canadian Department of Defence Research Network Grant on Women, Peace, and Security (specialising in Futureproofing WPS via an emphasis on ICTs and cybersecurity).
- Read LSE Fellow Dr Dimitrios Stroikos' new chapter 'NATO’S Space Policy and The Global Context: Issues and Challenges', in the open access book Space: Exploring NATO’s Final Frontier.
- Fawaz Gerges' book What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East has just been published. Read a book review by the LSE Review of Books.
You can also read his article "America’s Reckoning with Gaza at Home and the Great Rupture in International Relations", published by Yale University Press.
- Lauren Sukin and PhD Candidate Woohyeok Seo's new article, 'East Asia’s Alliance Dilemma: Public Perceptions of the Competing Risks of Extended Nuclear Deterrence', explores public concerns about nuclear deterrence and proliferation in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. They find that nuclear anxiety in East Asia is driven by abandonment or entrapment with Washington in its regional security structure.
- Visiting Senior Fellow Dr Anahita Motazed Rad presented her paper 'Intensifying Domestic Challenges of Iraqi Kurdistan: Bolstering Iran's Influence in the Middle East'.
She also presented a paper and chaired the final panel at the LSE Middle East Centre workshop, Beyond the Israel-Hamas War: Arab-Israeli Relations in a Wider Context. You can read the abstract of her paper 'Complexity of Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Iran and Regional Alliances Amid Chaos', here. The full paper will be published in September 2024.
- Senior Visiting Fellow Geoffrey Swenson has published his new book Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law.
- PhD candidate Sara Wong and IRD Fellow Alice Engelhard have received BISA's Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD), Early-Career Researcher Paper Prizes.
- Martin Bayly has a new article The Empire Cites Back: The Occlusion of Non-Western Histories of IR and the Case of India.
- LSE Fellow Dimitrios Stroikos was recently quoted in Nikkei Asia's article on China's far side of the moon launch.
- Fawaz Gerges has contributed to MSN's article 'US campus protests spread to the Middle East and Europe'. You can also watch him on CNN discussing the implications of the death of the Iranian President.
- Noah Zucker has won an LSE RISF grant of £20k. The grant is for a project entitled "Markets for Climate Experts," which examines how competition between the public and private sectors for a scarce pool of climate experts affects the quality of climate policymaking
- The UN Refugee Agency has posted a data visualisation story, which is the first use of an index Stephanie Schwartz and Lama Mourad (Carleton University) have developed that looks at how states restricted access to asylum during the pandemic.
Stephanie Schwartz has also published a blog post on The Researching Internal Displacement network, that discusses a new project she's working on with Adam Lichtenheld (Stanford University) and Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam) on state responses to internal and international displacement.
- Rohan Mukherjee has an article published in Foreign Affairs, “A Hindu Nationalist Foreign Policy,” which examines contemporary nationalism in India through the theoretical and historical lenses of domestic politics in rising powers.
Rohan Mukherjee was also quoted in Reuters' article "Modi invokes foreign policy achievements in election push".
Rohan Mukherjee has published an article 'Hierarchy and Endogenous Contestation in the Liberal International Order' in Global Studies Quarterly.
- There are seven past, present and future LSE IR Dept academics' articles featured in Vol 68, June 2024 International Studies Quarterly Journal. Check out Boram Lee, Lauren Sukin, Anna Getmansky, Mirko Heinzel and Ben Cormier, Sophie Rosenberg, and Jasmine Gani's articles.
- Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Mirko Heinzel have published new research on how global efforts to keep antibiotics effective are hampered by low public financing of health care.
- Senior Visiting Fellow Geoffrey Swenson has published "Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most Likely Case" in Studies in Comparative International Development.
- Howie Rechavia-Taylor's essay “German Colonialism in the Courtroom - Law, Reparation, and the Grammars of the Shoah” has been awarded the Early Career Essay Prize for best essay published in the Humanity journal in 2023. The prize is open to scholars working outside the tenure track at the time of submission.
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