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- Our DINAM Fellow Dr Teona Giuashvili participated in the high-level roundtable "From Strategy to Action: Implementing the EU Black Sea Strategic Approach" held at the Naval Academy in Constanța on 7-8 October 2025. The event was followed by a public panel hosted by the Romanian Government in Bucharest on 9 October. Both gatherings were organised by the Global Focus Center and the Black Sea Trust of the German Marshall Fund. Dr Giuashvili delivered opening remarks during a roundtable session focused on the EU's strategy for the Eastern flank of the Black Sea and the challenges facing the South Caucasus.
- Two of our faculty members are featured in the September 2025 edition of LSE's online research magazine:
Professor Robert Falkner has authored an article titled "The fluctuating fortunes of the market"
Professor Fawaz A. Gerges has written a piece titled “The struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East”
- Watch Professor Fawaz Gerges’ interview with Deutsche Welle as he explores the prospects for ending the war in Gaza.
- Dr Rohan Mukherjee and Dr Lauren Sukin have co-edited a roundtable in the Texas National Security Review titled “Navigating the New Nuclear Map.” Alongside their introductory essay, the roundtable contains papers by experts on the nuclear politics of different regions and countries including the Korean Peninsula, China, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. The roundtable stems from a workshop held at LSE, sponsored by the LSE Phelan United States Centre.
- Professor Milli Lake and Dr Agnes Yu (together with Dr MP Broache and Dr Kate Cronin-Furman) published “The Uncounted Dead: Statist Bias and Civilian Targeting in Conflict Data" in September’s issue of Global Studies Quarterly. The article reveals the statist bias that pervades large conflict event datasets, illustrating that data collection practices and coding decisions privilege government narratives of conflict. A combination of government control over media access and government influence over information outflows leads to the coding of civilian deaths that result from deliberate targeting by states as “battle-related.” These coding patterns obscure the culpability of governments and reinforce states’ legitimacy in their targeting of civilians, distorting research findings in studies that rely on events data.
- Professor Tomila Lankina has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
- Professor Karen E. Smith, together with Dr Henriette Mueller, has been awarded LSE-NYU Joint Research Seed Funding for their project “The Remaking of the Multilateral Order: Women Diplomats at the UN.”
- Dr Katharine Millar has been appointed as a REF sub-panel member for the Politics and International Studies Unit of Assessment.
- Dr Stephanie Schwartz has published a new research article titled "Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms" in International Migration Review.
- Our PhD candidate Sara Wong has published an article titled “Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal” in the Review of International Studies.
- Read our PhD candidate Kazimier Lim's piece, "What resuming direct India-China flights reveals about changing regional priorities" published by the Lowy Institute.
- Our DINAM Fellow Dr Teona Giuashvili has published a new article in LSE IDEAS titled "The Changing Face of the South Caucasus."
- On 23 June 2025, the Department of International Relations hosted a workshop on "Black Sea Futures" with the participation of senior experts and practitioners from London and other European capitals to discuss geopolitical and geoeconomic developments in the Black Sea region and policy implications for Europe. The workshop was opened by Professor Chris Alden, Director of LSE IDEAS, and moderated by DINAM Fellow Dr Teona Giuashvili.
- Dr Patrick Gill-Tiney spoke with The i Paper for the article “Starmer, Meloni or even Putin – who is the real Trump whisperer?”
- Read Dr Jonny Hall's new blog post "Donald Trump’s 'Department of War' name change is mostly political theatre."
- Our PhD candidate Partha Moman has published a new report titled "What next for African Union peace operations in Somalia?"
- Dr Giulia Sciorati has published a new research article titled "Conceptualising autocracy promotion as commercialisation: marketising narratives and Chinese responses to central Asian protests" in EJIR.
She has also presented the evidence to the UK Parliament as part of the China Audit.
- Our PhD candidate Alexander Jake Davies published an article about the Phelan US Centre’s recent conference, "International Relations and Democracy in a Multipolar World.”
- Check out PhD candidate Terrence Mullan's new blog post in USAPP titled "The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next"
He also published an article in the Lowy Institute titled "History’s warning: Climatechaos can expose thefragility of world order."
- Professor Fawaz Gerges spoke with CNN about Donald Trump’s UN General Assembly speech and its implications for Palestinians.
- Our PhD candidate Gaston Bronstering co-authored an article titled "The ECB Must Embrace Europe’s Green Finance Rules To Secure Both Climate Goals And Financial Stability" in Social Europe.
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