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Department of International Development
6-8th Floors, Connaught House
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE

 

Tel: +44 (020) 7955-7425/6252
Fax: +44 (020) 7955-6844

 

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The Department of International Development (ID) was established in 1990 as the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) to promote interdisciplinary post-graduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change.

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GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY YEARBOOK

In the 10th anniversary edition of the Global Civil Society yearbook, activists and academics look back on ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed - or whether there is something genuinely new in kind about the way in which civil society is now operating.

Global Civil Society 2012: Ten Years of Critical Reflection|

Kaldor, Mary; Selchow, Sabine and Henrietta L. Moore (eds) (2012) Palgrave Macmillan

 
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 PUBLIC SEMINAR

The Asia Research Centre and Department of International Development are pleased to announce

Pakistan after Bin Laden: Free-fall or resurgence?

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Speaker: Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan Director, Human Rights Watch
Chair: Professor Athar Hussain

Thursday 7th June 2012, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Alumni Theatre, NAB.LG.09, New Academic Building, LSE

 
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SUMMER PUBLIC EVENT

International Development and STICERD are delighted to announce

The Amartya Sen Lecture
Given by Professor Joseph E Stiglitz with Professor Amartya Sen

Thursday 28th June 2012 at 6.30pm
Old Theatre, LSE

Joseph E Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Amartya Sen teaches Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and was Master of Trinity College Cambridge until 2004. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. Professor Sen is an Honorary Fellow of the LSE.

This event is open to the public but a ticket is required.

  

Further details: LSE Public Events|

 

LSE academic awarded NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship|

Dr Tim Forsyth (pictured), reader in the Department of International Development, has been awarded the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford University Distinguished Fellowship on Contemporary Southeast Asia for the 2012-13 academic year.
 
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New Work on Intellectual Property and Late Development|

Kenneth Shadlen has two new publications on the politics of intellectual property. The work is part of his ongoing research programme on "Intellectual Property and Late Development"