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News about the Department
The 'Rio+20' UN Summit: Global Crisis, or Global Rescue?|
Department of International Relations and Chatham House debate
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Tom Burke, Professor Andrew Hurrell, Bernice Lee
Chair: Dr Robert Falkner
The ‘Rio+20’ UN conference will take place in June, two decades after the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro. What will it take to make environmental sustainability a global reality?
This event marks the publication of a special issue of International Affairs on ‘Rio+20 and the global environment: reflections on theory and practice’.
Tom Burke is environmental policy advisor to Rio Tinto plc and founding director of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism.
Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University
Bernice Lee is research director of Energy, Environment and Resource Governance, at Chatham House.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSErio20
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email c.easom@lse.ac.uk|.
Media queries: please contact the Press Office if you would like to reserve a press seat or have a media query about this event, email pressoffice@lse.ac.uk|.
International Affairs special issue on ‘Rio+20 and the Global Environment: Reflections on Theory and Practice’
The latest special issue of International Affairs (88:3, May 2012) reviews International Relations approaches to global environmental politics. It was guest-edited by Dr Robert Falkner, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at LSE, and Bernice Lee, Head of the Energy Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House, and includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars, including Andrew Hurrell, Robert Keohane, Eric Helleiner, Kenneth Abbott and Steven Bernstein, among others. Topics covered include the role of emerging powers in climate politics, private governance initiatives, institutional diffusion, differential treatment and the North-South conflict, as well as UNEP reform. Dr Falkner’s contribution explores the normative foundations of international society and asks whether these have been ‘greened’ over time.
The articles in this special issue are available online for free until the end of May 2012. You can read them at Chatham House online| and Wiley online|.
Article by Dr Robert Falkner from International Relations Department included in MIT Press’s “50 Influential Journal Articles” anniversary celebration
Dr Falkner’s article “Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links” (Global Environmental Politics 3:2, 2003) has been included in the list of 50 influential journal articles published in MIT Press journals in honour of the Press’ 50th anniversary. The 50 articles were chosen from a wide range of disciplines, including economics, international affairs, history, science and technology. Dr Falkner’s article is the only one chosen from the journal Global Environmental Politics, which rose to an impact factor of 2.231 and ranked 5th out of 139 journals in political science in 2010. It remains one of the journal’s top-cited articles.
From The MIT Press: “As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, and with suggestions from our editors, we’ve selected 50 influential articles published by the Journals division of the MIT Press. Each of these select articles will be freely available through 19 June 2012.”
Full details of the MIT list are available here|.
IR Staff - recent activities
Kirsten Ainley recently gave a 40min talk on 'Excesses of Responsibility and the Power of Political Approaches to Atrocity', presented at the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Network, 1st May 2012. Download the mp3 here|.
Professor Fawaz A Gerges has written an article for Newsweek and The Daily Beast on How the Arab Spring Beat Al Qaeda.|
Professor Barry Buzan recently gave a talk for TEDx at St Martins Central on 'A world order without superpowers', which can be viewed on YouTube| (21 mins).
Dr Katerina Dalacoura has contributed an entry in the LSE British Politics and Policy blog entitled: The on-going conflict in Syria presents a great challenge to proponents of human rights. A consensual strategy must be found that saves lives and prevents an escalation of violence|
Mr Erik van der Marel has contributed a piece on Nicolas Sarkozy and the French elections to France 24|.
Dr Toby Dodge has written an article for Open Security on 'The Resistable Rise of Nuri al-Maliki'|.
Professor John Sidel has written an article for The Guardian on Indonesian democracy|
Undergraduate Open Day Wed 27 June 2012
Come and meet academic staff from the Department of International Relations at the LSE undergraduate Open Day on Wednesday 27 June. Booking is essential, so please see Open Days| for more information and to book a place.
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Two Michael Leifer PhD Scholarships to be awarded in 2012/13
This scholarship was established in memory of the late Professor Michael Leifer.
The award is tenable for one year in the first instance, but may be renewed for up to a further two years subject to satisfactory progress and availability of funds.
This award will provide full fees and living expenses of £14,000 for UK/EU and OS students. Awards will only be made if there are candidates of sufficient merit.
A CV, research proposal and two references are required, in addition to the application form. Deadline 8 June 2012.
More info and application form here|
Information about other funding available|
Department of International Relations Public Lecture
Tibet, China and the Self-Immolation Crisis|
Date: Friday 18 May 2012
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Robert Barnett, Professor Tsering Shakya
Chair: Professor Christopher Hughes
All welcome, first come first served. More information here|
Political Economy of Investment Treaties
The IR Department recently hosted a two-day workshop on the political economy of investment treaties. It brought together a diverse group of scholars from international relations, political science, economics and law to discuss research and future collaboration in the field of investment treaty negotiation and arbitration.
The workshop was organized in collaboration with the Transnational Law Project at LSE’s Law Department.
Histories of Violence
Lecture on Hannah Arendt by Professor Kimberly Hutchings|
Professor Kimberly Hutchings recently gave a keynote lecture on political theorist Hannah Arendt as part of the Histories of Violence multi-media forum at the University of Leeds.
You can watch the lecture (53 minutes) and find out more about Arendt here|
IR Alumnus awarded Young Global Leader of the Year|
IR Alumnus Subhashini 'Shuba' Chandran has been awarded the prestigious title of Young Global Leader of the year by the World Economic Forum for her economic and social work in South India. Other people on this year's list include Mark Leonard and Rory Stewart, and a previous awardee was David Cameron. Altogether, globally, 192 people received the award in 2012.
One of India’s select few women leaders at the helm of a large agribusiness, Chandran is Woodbriar Group’s CEO & Managing Director (TEIL), and Senior Adviser to AgDevCo, a UK based social venture capital fund investing in agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa.
Woodbriar Group is India's largest privately owned tea plantations business with diversified interests in eco-tourism and insurance services. Group gardens span 25,000 acres and 9 processing facilities, producing 16 million kilograms of tea, from five locations in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, supporting a community of 30,000+ employees and dependents. The Group owns and operates numerous hospitals, outpost dispensaries, daycare centres, and schools for these rural communities. It has a network of 18 offices across India and Nepal.
Dr Kirsten Ainley awarded Teaching Prize
After being nominated by Professor Kim Hutchings, Head of the IR Department, Kirsten Ainley was awarded one of the Major Review Teaching Prizes that LSE offers for 'candidates who have shown exceptional flair and effectiveness as teachers.' The Promotions Committee wished to further recognise her exceptional efforts in teaching and therefore awarded her an additional bonus. Kirsten has introduced innovations on her courses such as organising an annual trip to The Hague to visit international courts and attend private meetings with judges, lawyers, NGO workers and legal advisors. She has also organised numerous workshops with guest speakers, film nights and class trips to institutions such as the Imperial War Museum to supplement her classroom teaching.
Peter Wilson Lecture available online
Senior Lecturer, Dr Peter Wilson gave a lecture on ‘The English School’s Understanding of International Institutions: A Conceptual Dead-End?’ to the John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center on 8 March 2012. For the lecture and other materials click here|.
New Senior Lecturer for the IR Department
The International Relations Department is delighted to announce that Dr Tomila Lankina will be joining us as Senior Lecturer in the international relations of Russia/Eurasia on 1 September 2012.
Dr Lankina is currently Reader in Politics at De Montfort University. She has a background in International Relations, Area Studies and Comparative Politics. Her current research is focused on transnational and sub-national governance, with a specific focus on Russia, China and India.
British Politics and Policy at LSE blog
Professor Chris Brown writes about the possible Turkish role in solving the Syrian crisis
While the UK can no longer play a key military role, the responsibility to protect civilians could lead to encouraging and supporting a Turkish-led operation...
Read full blog entry here|.
IR alumnus to speak at World Stage Lecture Series|
Over 20 years LSE alumnus and BBC Special Correspondent, Kurt Barling, has used media to examine social injustice, racial prejudice and inequality and won a string of awards.
Kurt will reflect on his time at LSE, and discuss the importance of culture at LSE and beyond with current LSE students. Open to LSE students and staff – followed by reception.
Date and time: 15 February; 6:30pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre (NAB)
The LSE IR Masters comes 9th in "Top 10 IR Masters programmes for those looking to run the world"|
Prestigious journal Foreign Policy recently compiled its Top Ten Best International Relations Master's Programs and the LSE MSc programmes came in at number nine! The rankings are part of the Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP)| survey.
You can read the full list here|.
Montague Burton Chair announcement
The IR Department is delighted to announce that Professor Iver B Neumann |will be our next Montague Burton Professor of International Relations. He will be joining us from 1 September 2012.
Iver B. Neumann (b. 1959), D. Phil. (Oxon, Politics 1992), Dr. Philos. (Oslo, Social Anthropology, 2009) is the incoming Montague Burton Professor of International Relations. His previous position was Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Neumann was Professor in Russian Studies, Oslo University, 2005-2008. Among his fourteen books are Uses of the Other. "The East" in European Identity Formation (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), with Ole Jacob Sending, Governing the Global Polity ((University of Michigan Press, 2010) and At Home with the Diplomats: Inside a European Foreign Ministry (Cornell University Press, 2012). Neumann's current research projects includes a co-written book on the historical sociology of the Eurasian steppe and work on a book on diplomacy.
The Montague Burton Chair, established in 1936, has been held by a number of distinguished professors including Susan Strange, Christopher Hill, Fred Halliday and Barry Buzan.
Dr Andrew Walter's book tops Foreign Policy's 'Favourite Reads of 2011'|
Dr Andrew Walter has topped a Foreign Policy poll for Favourite Reads of 2011 with his book "China, the United States, and Global Order". The publication, co-authored by Professor Rosemary Foot, the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, discusses multiple facets of the Chinese-American relationship and its quoted as "a must-read for anyone interested in the future of global governance".
Comments from the External Examiners on the 2010-11 session of MSc International Relations:
Some very laudatory remarks from the External Examiners were received for the MSc IR and IPE courses in 2010-11 and you can read their comments here:
MSc International Relations Theory|
MSc International Relations/MSc in International Relations (Research)|
MSc International Political Economy/MSc in International Political Economy (Research)|
Comments from the External Examiners on the 2010-11 session of BSc International Relations:
Some very laudatory remarks from the External Examiners were received for the BSc IR course in 2010-11 and you can read their comments here:
BSc in International Relations|
International Affairs special issue on Fred Halliday and John Vincent|
Sept 11: a special issue of the journal International Affairs, part of which is an assessment of Professor Halliday's impact on international relations and associated issues such as revolutions and the Middle East.
Dr Toby Dodge, from the IR Dept, has contributed the featured article from this issue, which examines Fred Halliday's research and writing on the politics of the Middle East. It can be read online or downloaded as a PDF for free, entitled Fred Halliday: high modernism and a social science of the Middle East|.
Fred Halliday Distinguished Lecture Series:
Framing the Arab Uprisings: a historical perspective
|Thursday 6 October 2011 6.30-8pm
Speaker: Professor Juan Cole
(Richard P Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and writer of the blog 'Informed Comment') Chair: Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Audio available to listen or download here| (76mins mp3)
The Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Travel Grant makes its first awards
The Dominique Jacquin-Berdal Travel Grant was established by the IR Department in memory of Dr Dominique Jacquin-Berdal who was a lecturer in the Department from 1999 until her death in 2006. She taught on nationalism and Africa as well as in the field of international relations theory. Her most well-known publication is Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Horn of Africa published in 2002. Her colleague James Mayall wrote an obituary in The Guardian|, plus a longer piece in the IR Department journal Millennium|.
The annual grant of £2,500 is intended to support travel and living costs for IR Department students' research in the fields of Africa, ethnicity and nationalism. The 2011 grant holder is Mark Kersten and the 2010 grant holder is Simone Datzberger. They give their reactions, plus details of their projects, on the IR blog|.
Life, London, LSE and IR: the first two terms|
Some of our first year BSc IR and MSc IR students have written about their experience of international relations, LSE and London during their first two terms here.
You can read their thoughts and advice on the IR blog here|.
Public Lecture: A World without Superpowers: De-centered Globalism
|10 May 2011, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Audio podcast| | Video| (92 mins)
Speaker: Barry Buzan, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Chair: Professor Michael Cox, International Relations and LSE IDEAS.
As the inequality of power between the West and the rest diminishes, the most likely scenario for world politics is de-centered globalism, in which there will be no superpowers. But what does a world with no superpowers mean for regional coexistence and international cooperation?
Read an interview with Barry Buzan on our blog|.
Professor Chris Brown recently gave an interview as part of the Great Thoughts From Great Thinkers series from The Carnegie Council. He reveals the roots of his current thinking, and discusses his views on Marxism, human rights, humanitarian intervention, direct versus representational democracy, and cosmopolitanism versus communitarianism. You can read the transcript here|, and hear the audio version here|.
Reflections on 42 years in the International Relations Department at the LSE
Nicholas A Sims, Reader in International Relations, retired in 2010 after 42 years in the IR Department at the LSE. He sets out his reflections on the Department, the students and the discipline during those years, in the IR Department blog here|.
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