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Is this the death of the Westminster model? Patrick Dunleavy examines why a string of countries with a UK-style electoral system now have a hung parliament. Leaders who appear too powerful harm their ability to make good decisions. New research from Dr Connson Locke exposes the dilemma of being too much in command.It was a spectacle of collective punishment, deliberately made public. Dr Heather Jones explains how bad treatment of prisoners was used to tactical advantage in WWI.The deepest principles of national security are SILENT …and they must be given VOICE - Professor Gwyn Prins fears for the future of the Royal Navy.

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Royal Navy is dangerously weak argues new paper|

LSE professor Gwyn Prins says the Navy must be strengthened if the silent principles of national security are not to be compromised.

LSE not taking part in clearing| 

Another record breaking year for A level passes has meant the School is already full for undergraduate study commencing in October 2010. This means that LSE has not entered Clearing this year for any course. 

'Mapping happiness? There's an app for that'|

LSE researchers launch iPhone app to track UK's happiness across space and time. 

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Photograph of Anne Phillips

'It's My Body and I'll do What I Like With it': bodies as possessions and objects|

Most people feel uneasy about markets in sexual or reproductive services; and although there is a substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit trade in live human organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as resources and/or possessions? These issues will be addressed by Professor Anne Phillips in a public lecture on 29 September.

 

The Case of the Pope: Vatican accountability for human rights abuse|

Geoffrey Robertson QC will argue in a public lecture on 8 September that unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolete canon law, the Vatican will remain in grave breach of the convention on the Right of the Child, and in some other respects an enemy of human rights.

Greatness and Limits of the West: reflections on an uncompleted project|

Professor Emeritus Heinrich August Winkler will deliver The Ralf Dahrendorf Lecture on 7 October. The lecture marks the intellectual legacy of Ralf Dahrendorf, director of LSE from 1974 to 1984 and one of Europe's most eminent sociologists and public servants of the post-war period.

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The Prisoner Reprisals of 1917
Video

In 1917, the Germans calculated that public outrage over prisoner mistreatment could be used to their advantage. Heather Jones from the Department of International History, LSE, explains.

Released: 10 August 2010; 8 minutes.

 
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Speaker: Professor Tariq Ramadan
Recorded: 2 August 2010, approx 92 minutes

Audio

Speaker: Professor Michael Cox
Recorded: 21 July 2010, approx 75 minutes

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Cover of The Financial Crisis: who is to blame?

The Financial Crisis: who is to blame?|

Howard Davies

 
Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation

Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation|

Bridget M Hutter (ed)

 
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