Between War and Crime? Analysing Drug Violence in Mexico
By Jacob Parakilas. Near the end of the first season of HBO’s “The Wire,” a police detective is shot and seriously wounded while conducting an undercover sting operation on a powerful Baltimore drug gang. In response, the detective’s colleagues press … Continue reading →
How to Spend It: Dividing the Fruits of Development in Asia
By Kamila Pieczara, PhD student in Politics and International Studies (PaIS), Warwick University Economic growth has been a common thread running through the history of many an East Asian nation. But preferences over spending the hard-earned money differ. Hong Kong … Continue reading →
Negotiating electoral results in the DRC
By Marta Iniguez de Heredia, a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations. She was a long-term electoral observer with the Carter Center in the province of Equateur. The views expressed here are her own and in no way … Continue reading →
Egypt’s Civil Society Crackdown: a Test for US-Egyptian Relations
By Sarah E. Yerkes. The relationship between the United States and Egypt has reached one of its lowest points in decades following a series of steps by the Egyptian military to prevent the operation of both international and domestic civil … Continue reading →
American Elections at a Time of Crisis: The Risks of Introspection
By Emiliano Alessandri and Gregorio Bettiza. With the primaries in the Republican Party well underway, the campaign season has finally gained momentum. The President’s recent State of the Union address left no doubt that Obama has shed his presidential “coolness” … Continue reading →
What next for Saif Gaddafi, Libya and the ICC?
By Teddy Nicholson. On Monday 21st January a deadline that it now appears was not only arbitrary but also purely notional elapsed. This was the deadline for the current Libyan government to tell the International Criminal Court what they were … Continue reading →
Algeria at Fifty and the Regime’s Successful Fiascos
By Lakhdar Ghettas, Stonex PhD Coordinator of the Maghreb Studies at the LSE IDEAS Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy Three major developments marked Algerian affairs in 2011. First, former minister of defence General Khaled Nazzar was arrest in Geneva, in … Continue reading →
Could Mayors Rule The World?
By Parag Khanna. Leading U.S. political scientist Benjamin Barber visited LSE on Wednesday for a seminar to discuss the framing ideas for his current book project titled If Mayors Ruled the World. Many know Barber for his provocative book from … Continue reading →
The Lessons of Northern Ireland for Contemporary Counterterrorism and Conflict Resolution Policy
IDEAS has compiled a video of short interviews with attendees of our conference held during May 2011 on: The Lessons of Northern Ireland for Contemporary Counterterrorism and Conflict Resolution Policy. Speakers include: Professor Richard English; Professor Adrian Guelke; Dr. Martin … Continue reading →
Removal of Fuel Subsidies in Nigeria: is it Boko or Haram?
Ahead of the lecture by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Dr Michael Amoah debates some of the recent big issues in the West African country, namely the removal of the fuel subsidy and subsequent … Continue reading →