Professor Fawaz A. Gerges Inaugural Lecture
Sheikh Zayed Theatre
New Academic Building
Wednesday 10 February 18:30 - 20.00
Today's Middle East is broken. The crisis of prolonged authoritarianism and regional conflicts and failed economic policies have caused chronic poverty, pervasive corruption and the rise of extremism and intolerance in Arab societies. A wasted decade of war on terror has reinforced widely held perceptions that the colonial West is waging a crusade against Islam and Muslims.
Fawaz A. Gerges is a professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at LSE
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk|or call 020 7955 6043.
National Student Survey:
Runs from 18 Jan to 30 April 2010 for final year undergraduate students. Please take part in the National Student Survey 2010|.
Executive Summer School 2010|:
The programme aims to deliver cutting edge research to global professionals from both the private and public sectors.
Professor Kim Hutchings and Dr George Lawson from the IR Department, LSE, (along with Mathias Albert of Bielefeld University and Jennifer Sterling-Folker of Connecticut University) were successful in their bid for editorship of the Review of International Studies. They begin shadowing the current team this summer and take over in full in January 2011 - their term of office runs for 5 years.
Current Vacancies:
January 2010: IDEAS
Special Report 'Obama Nation: US Foreign Policy One Year On'|. To mark one year since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, this Special Report brings together distinguished authors from the LSE and beyond to discuss how successfully the United States has reconfigured its foreign policy in the past year.
Professor Benjamin J. Cohen of the University of California (Santa Barbara), author of International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton, 2008) among many other books [see http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen/ |], gave a lecture in the department on 10 December 2009 on "The Transatlantic Divide in International Political Economy Revisited". This was followed by drinks with staff and students.
Dr Andrew Walter, Professor Benjamin J. Cohen and Dr Jeff Chwieroth
The monthly public Europe@LSE research seminars| start on 29 October 2009. They are organised jointly by the International Relations Department, with the European Institute and Department of Government at LSE.
IR484 - Islam in World Politics|, taught by IDEAS Philippe Roman, Chair Giles Kepel.
The International Relations Department student handbooks are now available online as PDFs from IR student handbooks|.
Are you a new student arriving in the IR Department in 2009? Visit Information for students arriving October 2009| for further information.
The LSE Department of International Relations will be hosting a Symposium on Detention and Rendition in the "War on Terror" on Wednesday 6 May 2009 from 09:30-17:30 in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. The Symposium brings together perspectives from International Law, International Relations, and human rights non-governmental organisations. For more information download the programme: Symposium on Detention and Rendition in the War on Terror| [PDF]
LSE Literary Festival 2009
We are delighted to announce the programme of LSE's first ever Literary Festival, which has been organised as part of the celebrations surrounding the completion of LSE's New Academic Building, inspired by sthe success of the Arts Programme over the last year.
The 'LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend' will be held from Friday 27 February to Sunday 1 March 2009, with a series of events exploring the interaction between the arts and social sciences. Full details of the programme are now available online at www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought|.
Executive Summer School
The Summer School is launching a new initiative this year - a new Executive Summer School. this is a programme of short, small, focused 1-week intensive courses designed for professionals and graduates. The programme will take place in June, and will be taught exclusively in the New Acadmic Building. A total of 11 courses are being run, three of which are in International Relations, taught by Professor Mick Cox, Dr Robert Falkner and Dr Andrew Walter. More information at Executive Summer School|.
Dr Robert Falkner awarded a Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) collaborative research grant for 2009-10.
Dr Robert Falkner (International Relations Department, London School of Economics) and Prof. Darryl S.L. Jarvis (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) are the joint recipients of the 2008 GPPN research grant, awarded annually to support collaborative research with a specific focus on policy-making and governance in the context of globalisation.
The $30,000 grant will fund a comparative study of the emerging field of nanotechnology oversight in Asia and Europe. Led by Dr Falkner and Prof Jarvis, a research team from LSE and LKYSPP will examine the impact that economic globalisation and technological diffusion have on regulatory policies in key Asian and European countries; consider the need for concerted policy responses to nanotechnology risks; and explore the potential for regulatory coordination between European and Asian countries in this area. Additional funding for the project is provided by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
The Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) is a non-profit international partnership of Columbia University in New York, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore and Sciences Po in Paris. The GPPN is aimed at fostering globally-oriented education, training and research to address the most pressing public policy challenges of the 21st century. For more information about the GPPN and its activities visit: www.lse.ac.uk/gppn|.
New MSc Programme: International Relations Theory, click here for more details |[MS Word file]
The Martin Wight Memorial Trust| have set up a new website.
The Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) is pleased to offer two three year PhD studentships for research student in Cold War studies. The competition for these studentships, worth £13,000 per year each, is open to UK, EU, and overseas applicants. To be considered, candidates most be students in or have applied for admission to the MPhil/PhD programme in International History at LSE.
Please take part in the Letters for Ingrid Project| [PDF] in memory of Dr Dominique Jacquin-Berdal.
LSE-Peking University Double MSc International Affairs organised jointly by LSE and Peking University|
LSE IR graduates are eligible to apply for the Masters in International Studies |at the George Washington University.
Research Students: We have set up a page of postgraduate research students and their area of expertise|. If you would like your details added, please email IR Web Editor Alison Carter on a.s.carter@lse.ac.uk|
Research Units: The IR Department has three Research Units:
European Foreign Policy Unit
Conflict Analysis and Development Unit
International Trade Policy Unit
The IR Dept celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2002-3 and there is a webpage of documents/photos from the Department's history at Foundation and History of the International Relations Department| .