How Sanctions Work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare

Hosted by the Middle East Centre and the Department of International Relations

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 6.30-8.00pm
Auditorium, Lower Ground Floor, Centre Building

Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr will discuss the most sanctioned country in the world, Iran, and whether sanctions work in the way they should.

This event will be a discussion around the book How Sanctions Work Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Ali Vaez published by Stanford University Press.

Sanctions have enormous consequences. When imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioural changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should?

Meet our speakers

Narges Bajoghli is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Vali Nasr is Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Sanam Vakil, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House.

Chair:

Dr Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government, LSE.

This public event is free and open to all but pre-registration is required.

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The End of Free Markets? Economic statecraft in the age of geopolitics

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE IDEAS

Thursday 24 October 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Join Kathleen McNamara, Elizabeth Ingleson, Alexander Evans and Mona Paulson as they discuss whether current geopolitics means the age of free markets is really coming to an end.

For decades, neoliberal ideologies and interests elevated free markets over political interventions. Today however the United States and the European Union have dramatically reversed course with a variety of new policy initiatives. From technologies to fight climate change to efforts to develop silicon chips in competition with China, we are in a new age of industrial policy and geopolitical markets. What are the roots of this change, and will the new economic statecraft prove a success, or a failed experiment in deglobalisation?

Meet our speakers:

Professor Alexander Evans, (@aiaevans) Professor in Practice and Programme Director MPA in Data Science at the School of Public Policy at LSE. 

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (@lizingleson), Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. She specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press). 

Professor Kathleen R McNamara (@ProfKMcNamara), Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Global Political Economy Project. 

Dr Mona Paulsen, Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. 

Chair:

Dr Rohan Mukherjee (@rohan_mukh), Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS. 

This public event is free and open to all. No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. 

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Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers

Hosted by Department of Gender Studies and Department of International Relations

Wednesday 30 October 2024 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Join us for the launch of Aiko Holvikivi’s Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers. This new book examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in peacekeeping situations, and with what political effects. Dr Holvikivi will provide introductory comments on the book, and panellists will offer their reflections on the topic, with the opportunity to participate in a Q&A afterwards. 

Meet our speakers

Dr Jasmine K Gani is Assistant Professor of International Relations Theory at LSE. She writes and teaches on (anti)colonialism, race, knowledge production, theory and history of IR, and ideologies and social movements in the Middle East. 

Dr Aiko Holvikivi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies and an Associate Academic at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE. 

Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa is a Belgian Rwandan International Relations scholar and former journalist. 

Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. He is a political sociologist whose teaching and research critically interrogate gender and sexuality in relation to war, peace and conflict, as well as ethnicity, religion, and migration.

Chair

Dr Katharine Millar is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her broad research interests lie in examining the gendered cultural narratives underlying political violence and the modern collective use of force.

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