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  • John Collins Presents LSE IDEAS Report Governing the Global Drug Wars at Washington DC Launch
    On April 25th 2013, the IDEAS Special Report Editor John Collins took part in the Washington DC report launch for 'Governing the Global Drug Wars.' The event was hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies. John took part in panel discussions that included Coletta Youngers from the Washington Office on Latin and America and Sanho Tree from the Institute for Policy Studies.
  • Prof Arne Westad and Prof Michael Cox publish articles in Global Policy
  • Event: Bruce Cumings on Holding the Peace Since the Korean War?The Armistice at 60
    UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is honoured to host Prof Bruce Cumings (Chicago), the most distinguished scholar of the Korean War, to deliver this lecture, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean Armistice. In his paper, Prof Cumings assesses the significance of the conflict and its historical legacy for the global system and today's East Asia. This event is organised in conjunction with City University International Politics Department, LSE Ideas and SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy.
  • Book Review: Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
    John Collins, IDEAS Transatlantic Programme Assistant, reviews Sue Pryce's book 'Fixing Drugs' for the LSE Review of Books and discusses the continued relevance of regime theory to analysing international drug policies.
  • Event: Queen Mary Annual Lecture on America
    Once a year the Queen Mary Seminar Series on America invites a distinguished scholar to give a lecture. The likes of Eric Foner and Tony Badger have done so in the past. Dr. Davies will be lecturing on "Demanding More/Trusting Less: Understanding the Political Reaction to Hurricane Katrina."
  • Professor OA Westad to give a lecture at the British Academy
    On November 28, Prof. Arne Westad will hold a lecture at the British Academy titled 'Ronald Reagan and the Re-Constitution of American Hegemony'. Using newly released archival material, Prof Westad will discuss the role of Reagan as President, changes in US alliance patterns, and global ideological re-ordering.
  • America and the World - After the Election
    LSE public discussion, Monday 12 November 2012, 6.30-8pm, LSE Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: Professor Anne Applebaum, Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Michael Cox, Gideon Rachman, Chair: Justin Webb This highly topical LSE public debate will look ahead to America’s next administration and assess the challenges it faces at home and how it is likely to address them, as well as how its relationships with Britain, Europe and the rest of the world are likely to develop.
  • Europe in Crisis Seminar
    IDEAS Europe in Crisis seminar attracted over 20 participants from across Europe and the world, from policymakers and practitioners to academics. After a successful day some of these participants, including Prof Michael Cox, tackled the question: Where will the European Project be in 2020? Read a detailed summary of the seminar and watch the exclusive interviews on our new Blog post.
  • Public Event: Cuban Missile Crisis - regional perspectives 50 years on
    To mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, LSE IDEAS, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Americas, will organise a panel discussion looking at the regional impact of the Cuban missile crisis.
  • LSE IDEAS Editor-in-Chief Nick Kitchen publishes book chapter
    Dr Nick Kitchen, Editor-in-Chief at LSE IDEAS, has published a chapter titled 'Ideas of Power and the Power of Ideas' in the recently published book 'Neoclassical Realism in European Politics' by Asle Toje & Barbara Kunz (Eds.).
  • LSE IDEAS Public Event: The Global Drug Wars, October 2012
    Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have failed, and worse, have spurred black market violence and human rights abuses. How did this drug control system arise, why has it proven so durable in the face of failure, and is there hope for reform?
  • New Book: A Europe Made of Money The Emergence of the European Monetary System by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
    IDEAS Transatlantic Programme Research Associate Dr. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol's new book 'A Europe Made of Money' is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research.
  • LSE Roundtable - EU Foreign Policy: The View from Africa
    Date: Thursday 10 May 2012 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: STC S.75, St. Clements Building Speakers: Dr Marie Gibert, Professor Gerrit Olivier, Dr Daniela Sicurelli Chair: Dr Tine Van Criekinge
  • Obama’s Foreign Policy in a Transforming Middle East
    IDEAS' Transatlantic Programme Coordinator Dr. Nicholas Kitchen will be participating in a panel discussion at Warwick University on May 10th 2012. He will be addressing the question 'is the war on terror over?' The event is hosted by the AHRC Research Network on the Presidency of Barack Obama.
  • IDEAS Book Launch - US Foreign Policy Second Edition
    Thursday 10th May 2012, 6.30pm, COL 2.01 Columbia House Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Dr Doug Stokes Chair: Dr Nicholas Kitchen
  • LSE Roundtable: EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The View from Asia
    Date: Tuesday 1 May 2012 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: CLM 2.02, Clement House Speakers: Professor Martin Holland, Dr Yeo Lay Hwee, Dr Michito Tsuruoka Chair: Dr Spyros Economides
  • LSE Event: EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The View from the EU's Strategic Partners
    30 April 2012, 18.30-20.00, Room CLM 2.02 Speakers: Professor Purusottam Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University, India), Dr Andrea Ribeiro-Hoffmann (University of Erfurt), Professor Derek Averre (University of Birmingham) Moderator: Professor Christopher Hughes, LSE
  • Inderjeet Parmar's New Book, Foundations of the American Century
    IDEAS Tranasatlantic Programme Associate Inderjeet Parmar's new book explores the international role of American philanthropic foundations.
  • Review of Inderjeet Parmar's 'Foundations of the American Century'
    Transatlantic Programme Associate Inderjeet Parmar's new book, 'Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power' is reviewed by Walter Russell Mead in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs.
  • Iran and the West: How portrayals justify intervention
    Arne Westad's arguments about how US administrations viewed Africa nations as 'children' and 'adolescents' during the Cold War hold insights for current Western diplomacy towards Iran.
  • Video Debate: Is the United States in Decline?
    On February 2nd 2012, Professor Michael Cox and Dr. Nicholas Kitchen of LSE IDEAS attended a debate at the Institute for the Studies of the Americas (ISA), where they argued against the motion that America is in decline. Arguing for the motion were: Dr Adam Quinn (University of Birmingham) and Professor Iwan Morgan (ISA). Chairing the debate was Dr. Matthew Hill (ISA).
  • Strategic Update: The Anglo French Defence Treaty
    The signing of Anglo-French Defence Treaty has been one of the least reported, and analysed, of the UK coalitions Government’s policies, whilst being, without question, one of its most significant. In the context of defence cuts on both sides of the Atlantic and the Channel, and of a Libyan operation in which Britain and France’s dependence on American assets surprised some observers in Washington, this paper assesses the consequences of the Treaty for Anglo- French defence cooperation.
  • Mick Cox and Danny Quah: A new world economic order?
    Professor Michael Cox guest-blogs for Danny Quah.
  • Conference/Call for Papers: Bristol University - Global Insecurities Centre - The United States and Discourses of Contemporary Global Crises
    Call for Papers for a one-day workshop exploring the ways in which contemporary global crises are produced, defined, and addressed within US discourse.
  • Conference/Call for Papers: European Consortium for Political Research - Graduate Conference - Bremen 2012
    Call for Papers: The Decline of US Hegemony: Emerging Power(s) and the Future of World Politics at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Graduate Conference 2012 in Bremen.
  • The United States After Unipolarity
    As the United States’ dominance of the international system comes increasingly under threat, this report assesses the challenges the Obama administration has faced in rebalancing American foreign policy to a world that is no longer 'unambiguously unipolar'.
  • John Collins joins IDEAS as the new Transatlantic Programme Assistant
    John Collins is the programme assistant for the Transatlantic Relations Programme at LSE IDEAS. John is a PhD Candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on Anglo-American relations and international drug control over the period 1939-1964.
  • Professors Cox and Westad speak at Dahrendorf Symposium
    Watch the video of Professors Michael Cox and Odd Arne Westad, Co-Directors of IDEAS, participating in the recently held Dahrendorf Symposium (Nov 9 - 10 2011) at the historic Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • America's Future is Secure Says Professor Michael Cox
    Professor Michael Cox (codirector at LSE IDEAS) was invited to Lateline, an Austrailian TV show, and interviewed by Ali Moore about the shift in power from the West to the East.
  • Power Shift and the Death of the West? Not Yet!
    Professor Michael Cox publishes new article in European Political Science.
  • New Video: Roundtable on America, Britain and Rising Powers
    In this wide-ranging roundtable, Joseph Nye speaks about the future of American power, Michael Cox offers a spirited rebuttal of the decline thesis, and Stephen Burman assesses where Britain's rising power strategy will take it. Lisa Aronsson looks at the military commitments of the transatlantic alliance, and Inderjeet Parmar asks whether there is an 'Obama Doctrine'.
  • Rendition, Secret Detention and Torture: From Bush to Obama
    Ruth Blakely takes a critical look at the Obama administration's approach to the war on terror.
  • The Limits of American Power: Obama's War in Afghanistan
    Theo Farrell sets out what Obama hopes to achieve from his Afghanistan strategy. What can the United States do in Afghanistan? Not very much.
  • New Video: Paul Ingram on US Nuclear Policy
    Paul Ingram of the British American Security Information Council assess Obama's policies on nuclear weapons.
  • Barack Obama, the Tea Party and Domestic Dissent
    Dr Mark Ledwidge discusses the rise of the Tea Party under Barack Obama, and assesses what it tells us about the continued salience of race politics in contemporary America.
  • New Video: Obama and the US Deficit Problem
    Professor Iwan Morgan explains why the United States has failed to confront the issue of the deficit, what the consequences will be, and how the problem may be addressed.
  • The Euro Crisis: A Historical Perspective
    In this research report Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol explores the current euro crisis by looking at the debates preceding the conception of the euro. How can the early days of EU monetary cooperation help us understand today's predicament? And what lessons can we draw from them for the euro?
  • New Special Report: Turkey's Global Strategy
    As we approach the Turkish parliamentary elections, this major new research report analyses Turkey's 'zero problems with neighbours' foreign policy.
  • Obama’s London visit comes amid British reckoning
    IDEAS' Nicholas Kitchen tells the Washington Post that “The British problem isn’t a lack of ambition, but to be blunt, it’s that we’ve run out of cash”.
  • Still the American System: Structural Power and the durability of Hegemony
    Nicholas Kitchen presented a paper at the British International Studies Association annual conference in Manchester.
  • Caught between Kosovo and Iraq: Understanding Germany’s Abstention on Libya
    In this blog entry, Felix Berenskoetter considers the strategic thinking behind the heavily criticized decision of the German government to abstain from voting on the UNSCR 1973 authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya.
  • The shifting global balance of power - China.org.cn
    IDEAS Senior Fellow Professor Danny Quah argues that as the economic centre of gravity shifts East, the question should not be what is good for the West, but what is good for the world as a whole.
  • World's centre of economic gravity shifts east
    IDEAS Senior Fellow Professor Danny Quah explains how the world's economic centre of gravity has shifted 3000 miles east over the last 30 years, and will continue to do so.
  • Transatlantic Programme Symposium in European Political Science
    Authors from the LSE IDEAS Transatlantic Programme debate the future prospects for the Transatlantic relationship in March's issue of European Political Science
  • Just Another Liberal War? Western Interventionism and the Iraq War
    Nicholas Kitchen and Michael Cox argue that the roots of the Iraq war lie in the post-Cold War dominance of liberal ideas, and warn that by failing to recognise the liberal character of the Iraq war, the West may repeat the same errors. 
  • The Obama Doctrine - Detente or Decline?
    Nicholas Kitchen writes in European Political Science on the emerging Obama doctrine.
  • An Emperor Without Clothes: Wikileaks and the Limits of American Power
    Two months since the first Wikileaks revelations, Felix Berenskoetter asks ask how much remains from the initial claims that these leaks would cause damage to the US.
  • 2011 Transatlantic Studies Association Conference
    The 2011 conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association will take place at Dundee University on 11-14 July. Submissions for Panel proposals and individual papers are now welcome and must be submitted by 30 April 2011.
  • The Tea Party in International Perspective
    Gregorio Bettiza argues that the Tea Party is not an isolated phenomenon. Popular movements across the world are responding to international challenges in similar ways.
  • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ideas/2010/11/lifted-lines-and-lacks-vision-camerons-guildhall-speech-on-britains-global-role/
    It is said by many informed commentators that David Cameron's recent speech on Britain's global role was partly lifted from one delivered by former PM Gordon Brown and also lacked "vision". Inderjeet Parmar contends that is an impoverished and superficial conclusion from Cameron's speech.
  • Angry America and the World at the Mid-Terms
    The 'shellacking' that Obama's Democrats took at the mid-term elections was not just about jobs at home, argues Professor Michael Cox. It is also about America's place in global issues and how American values were supported - but the electorate didn't seem to like the news on this front either.
  • Conference Registration Now Open: Obama and American Power Today, London, May 9th 2011
    Co-organised by LSE IDEAS, the University of Manchester and the Eccles Centre at the British Library this symposium will examine the domestic political and economic situation in the US; new strategies for global influence; and consider the USA and UK in the context of rising powers.
  • Inderjeet Parmar on Al Jazeera's Inside Story
    VIDEO: Barack Obama, the US president, is visiting India for the first time since he became president as part of a ten-day Asia tour aimed at opening up foreign markets for the US. Transatlantic Relations Associate Professor Inderjeet Parmar discusses the importance of India to the US in a region with growing global influence.
  • The Future of UK Foreign Policy
    Upon assuming power in May, the United Kingdom’s historic coalition government set in motion three exercises that together aimed to reshape British foreign policy. Taken together, the new National Security Strategy (NSS), the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) and the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), seek to lay down the bounds of Britain’s...
  • Millennium Conference, sponsored by LSE IDEAS
    Professor Cox will chair the opening roundtable at the Millennium Journal of International Studies Conference, being held at the LSE on the 16th and 17th October.
  • Power Profit and Prestige: A History of American Expansionism
    Philip Golub argues that an embedded culture of force and expansion has shaped American foreign policy. In this brief interview he answers questions relating to his new book 'Power Profit and Prestige: A History of American Expansionism'.
  • Obama's Middle East Policy: Time to Decide
    January 2010: Gregorio Bettiza and Chris Phillips look at Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
  • Sanctioning Iranian Narcissism - Al Majalla
    April 2010: Contrary to conventional wisdom, Iran is not a rogue state. It cares deeply about its standing in the world and daily seeks to legitimize its government in the eyes of the international community. In many ways, Iran is more like Soviet Russia or Maoist China than it is a pariah state.
  • LSE IDEAS Today: Drifting or Rifting? America and Europe in the age of Obama
    April 2010: When Americans elected a new president in November 2008, Europeans hoped that the partnership between the two continents would be renewed.
  • Obama’s Domestic Foreign Policy | Aspenia online
    July 2010: It has become somewhat common wisdom that President Obama’s international agenda has been superseded by his domestic one.
  • Transatlantic Relations News Analysis
    Gregorio Bettiza reviews an intense summer on the transatlantic front.
  • New Issue of Argentia
    Professor Michael Cox features in the new issue of Argentia, the magazine of BISA's US Foreign Policy Working Group.
  • Global Power Shifts: Power Shift? Not Yet
    Prof Cox in Chatham House's The World Today: It is fast becoming the new 'truth' among many writers that one part of the world - Asia and the east - is moving up, while another - the west - is moving down. Paul Kennedy, in his article Rise and Fall in the August/September edition says this has to be viewed within a broader transition; the 'most significant…of the new century' which is also witnessing the rise of China at the expense of both Europe and the United States.
  • Transatlantic Programme Associate Inderjeet Parmar appointed Visiting Scholar at St John's College, Oxford
    Professor Inderjeet Parmar will spend Summer 2010 as a Visiting Scholar at St John's College, Oxford, where he will be working on his project of Anglo-American wars since Korea.
  • Podcast: Barack Obama and the End of the American Empire
    Michael Cox spoke to a packed house in the Old Theatre as part of the LSE Summer School.
  • BISA US Foreign Policy Conference
    Registration for the 5th Annual BISA US Foreign Policy Conference is now open. The conference includes a roundtable on IDEAS Director Professor Michael Cox's 'Soft Power and US Foreign Policy', and Transatlantic Programme Fellow Dr Nicholas Kitchen is presenting a paper on Leadership in American Grand Strategy after the Cold War.
  • Pew Global Attitudes Project
    Professor Michael Cox chaired the launch of the Pew Global Attitudes Project at Chatham House. Click for a summary of the key findings.
  • Will Foreign Policy Shift Under Britain’s New Government?
    Professor Michael Cox says a move to distance relations with the United States reflects the public mood across Britain.
  • Gregorio Bettiza on Aspenia online: Britain: undecided at home, uncertain abroad
    Following the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Britain is set for a rocky and uncertain future. What is clear though, is that its international role will shrink.
  • U.K. politicians borrow Obama’s ‘change’ strategy - World Blog - msnbc.com
    Professor Michael Cox comments as the UK general election campaign gets underway, and expects that Labour will try to portray Gordon Brown as a "solid piece of Scottish granite" and David Cameron as "a bit of plastic."
  • LSE IDEAS: Transatlantia Blog: No Longer Special?
    Professor Michael Cox assesses the recently released report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the 'Special Relationship' between the UK and the US.
  • Reassessing The Special Relationship
    Chair of the IDEAS advisory board Lord William Wallace and Christopher Phillips, Programme Assistant of the Middle East International Affairs Programme, co-authored an article in International Affairs in 2009 which has had significant impact with UK policymakers.
  • Call for Papers - Postgraduate Conference: ‘Understanding America and understanding its relationship with the world’
    In association with the BISA US Foreign Policy working group and BAAS, De Montfort University will host a postgraduate conference June 11, 2010. It is open to any postgraduate student involved in US domestic or foreign policy issues past and present.
  • Conference - US Presidents and Democracy Promotion
    Over the last 100 years, US presidents have been increasingly influenced by the historical impulse to promote American political values abroad. This democracy promotion tradition goes back to Woodrow Wilson and beyond. In the words of Ronald Reagan, supporting the cause of freedom ‘goes to the heart of our national character and defines our national purpose.’ After the Cold War, the democracy promotion impulse was renewed under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Has the Obama administration continued it? The conference aims to deepen our understanding of how different presidents have interpreted the democracy promotion tradition and used it to further their own ends - or have tried to escape it. It will shed light on the consequences of following the tradition, both for the United States and targeted countries.
  • RUSI Book Launch, 19th May: Soft Power and US Foreign Policy
    Professor Michael Cox and Professor Inderjeet Parmar will discuss their new book, Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, with Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University and Professor Christopher Hill from the University of Cambridge.
  • Event: A Social Dimension for Transatlantic Economic Relations
    Dr Henning Meyer (Global Policy Institute), Dr Stephen Barber (London South Bank University), Chaired by Professor Stephen Haseler (Global Policy Institute) This new report places Transatlantic Economic Relations in its historical context and demonstrates how the political agenda and institutional setup are both largely dysfunctional. Monday, 29th March 2010 at 6:15pm, The Boardroom (JS1-41), 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY If you would like to attend please RSVP to events@global-policy.com
  • Transatlantia Blog Post: “The Connection Was Reset”: Google goes to War for the West
    IDEAS Fellow Dr Nicholas Kitchen argues that Google's decision to stop censoring its search engine results in China is a significant step forward for political liberalism in China.
  • Professor Cox speaks at the Oxford Union
    Professor Michael Cox spoke against the motion that "This House believes that Obama has failed to live up to expectations", emerging victorious by 190 votes to 105. Joining Professor Cox were Bonnie Greer, Bronwen Maddox and Philippe Sands QC, in a debate that pitted them against Dr Thomas Grant, Anatole Kaletsky, Nirj Deva MEP and David Amess MP.
  • Call for Papers: BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group
    The Fifth Annual Conference of the BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group will be held at the University of Leeds on 14/15 September 2010. We invite papers that address any aspect of US foreign policy - contemporary or historical. Those which focus on US foreign and security policy, human rights /democracy promotion and multilateralism during and after the Bush Jnr administration will be particularly welcome.
  • Brazil's rejection of sanctions against Iran: US-Brazilian relations in context
    Hilary Clinton’s failure to get Brazil to sign on to US-backed sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programme was to be expected: throughout his presidency, Lula has adopted a conciliatory approach to foreign policy. He has maintained good relations with various antagonists of the US, including Cuba and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. But the event also shows the contradictory nature of Washington’s relationship with Brazil and raises questions about its foreign policy direction after Lula’s departure at the end of the year.
  • Michael Cox releases Soft Power and US Foreign Policy
    Edited by IDEAS Co-Director Professor Michael Cox alongside Professor Inderjeet Parmar of Manchester University this volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the key concept of soft power in foreign affairs.
  • ECPR/Transatlantic Relations Roundtable, APSA, 3-6 September 2009, Toronto
    The LSE IDEAS Transatlantic Relations Programme organised a roundtable at the American Political Science Association on the topic of "Terrors in Transatlantia- still? Europe and the United States from Bush to Obama".
  • Cristina Barrios wins Global Public Policy Network Fellowship at Sciences-Po
    Transatlantic Relations Fellow Cristina Barrios will be affiliated at Sciences-Po in Paris for a three months, initially for a month in June 2009 and then between September 20th and November 20th.
  • Cristina Barrios Awarded Doctorate
    Transatlantic Relations Fellow Cristina Barrios was awarded her doctorate from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Supervised by Professor Michael Cox, her research studied the evolution of the Transatlantic relationship and the "rise" of the European Union in contemporary International Relations, and compares democracy promotion strategies in the context of "drifting and rifting" relations of the US and Europe, focused on the specific cases of democracy promoting the Middle East and North Africa, most notably and extensively the Congo (DRC).
  • Nicholas Kitchen Awarded Doctorate
    Transatlantic Relations Fellow Nicholas Kitchen was awarded his doctorate from the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics for his thesis entitled 'American Power: For What? Ideas, Unipolarity and America's Search for Purpose Between the 'Wars'. 1991-2001'. Supervised by Professor Michael Cox, Dr Kitchen's thesis traces the grand strategy debates that took place in the United States in the post-Cold War period, and assesses their impact on US foreign policy within a neoclassical realist framework. His examiners were Professor John Dumbrell (Durham) and Dr Toby Dodge (Queen Mary)
  • News Analysis: Nov/Dec 2009
    In the past month, three key issues came to the fore in transatlantic relations. First, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 grabbed much of the attention in early November. During the events there was much cause for celebration but also some space for critical reflections. Secondly, the ratification process of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty draw to a closure with the final appointments of two new EU posts of President of the European Council and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Finally, on December 1st, President Obama unveiled his administration's new strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at the emblematic West Point academy.
  • Systemic pressures and domestic ideas: a neoclassical realist model of grand strategy formation
    Nicholas Kitchen's latest article in Review of International Studies sets out to incorporate the impact of domestic political ideas within the realist framework of international relations theory.

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