New Course: 2011-12 - Strategy in an Age of Global Risk
This is a new and unique Executive Masters Programme for high-flyers dealing with international affairs, defence, and international business and finance. It is is particularly suitable for those proceeding to senior positions where they will need to think more strategically.
With the active input of the LSE's world-renowned International Relations Department, the programme has been designed by a team of leading academics and practitioners, and tailored to take account of the fact that people in high-pressure positions have little time to spare.
The programme will equip participants with a clear understanding of the diversity of risks—state, non-state and natural—confronting governments and societies. Above all, this course is designed to enhance decision makers' confidence in their strategic vision on how to address the challenges now and in the years ahead.
While lectures and electronic briefings will provide the background to the issues, a large part of the programme will be in the form of sharply-focussed discussions that challenge conventional wisdom. The programme will also be running a series of exercises and case studies dealing with contemporary threats, devising strategies and managing crises.
To ensure that participants gain the best possible results from these discussions, as well as from their contact with academics and practitioners, only a carefully selected and small number of people will be accepted onto this programme.
The Structure
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Four one-week intensive study sessions
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Twenty weekly evening seminars
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Two policy weekends
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Institution visits
The Content
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A New Approach: How to create viable strategies for a rapidly Changing World
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Strategic Trends—the pressures that are building up, the flashpoints and what might surprise us—and how to make more reliable assessments of what is happening
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The Tools of Strategy: intelligence, diplomacy, influence, negotiations, sanctions and deterrence.
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Case Studies: lessons from recent major strategic decisions
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Facing the Future: exercises in risk assessment and contingency planning, war games, crisis management, development of credible and robust strategies for the future.
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10,000 word Dissertation (optional, to proceed to Masters qualification)
For further details, contact Juliet Dryden, the course's Executive Programme Administrator, LSE IDEAS, j.dryden@lse.ac.uk|.