Book launch: A Green and Global Europe

Co-hosted by the European Foreign Policy Unit and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Thursday 8 December 2022 

Speakers:

Dr Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and alumnus of LSE.

Professor Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at LSE and Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA.

Chair:

Dr Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit.

In A Green and Global Europe Nathalie Tocci explains how the unprecedented nature of the current energy transition represents both a unique opportunity and a huge challenge to Europe’s future prosperity. The EU, she argues, must not act in isolation or ignore the adverse effects of the transition on member states and neighbours. It must also address the global cleavages that may arise with China, the transatlantic relationship and the Global South as a result of the EU’s green agenda. 

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Fact and Fantasy: The Contemporary Politics of Science in International Relations

Thursday 17 November 2022 90 minutes

Speakers:

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service at American University Washington DC. 

Professor Laura Sjoberg is British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. 

Dr Sophie Rosenberg is a Fellow in the International Relations Department at LSE. She received her PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar from the University of Cambridge and has held academic roles at Cambridge and Oxford. Her research focuses on human rights, states' responses to mass atrocities, and the link between the epistemic domain, social media, and political violence.   

Chair:

Dr Katharine Millar is Assistant Professor of International Relations at LSE. 

In this conversation the speakers will explore the meaning and deployment of "facts" within international politics. What do we make of "alternative facts", such as the seeming rise of conspiracy theory, and frequently partisan polarisation of science? What should or shouldn't be considered science? Along the way, the speakers will also reflect on Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, and what ostensibly fantastic popular culture might tell us about truth in the present. 

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A new international order in the making

Tuesday 25 October 2022 90 minutes

Speaker: Ms Arancha González, Dean, The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po.

Chair: Jeffrey M Chwieroth Professor of International Relations, LSE.

The current international order is under stress from climate change, major technological advances and more assertive authoritarian regimes (eg the war in Ukraine). What are the forces shaping the new international order, and how can it be shaped for people, the planet and shared prosperity?

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Chip War – the battle to control semi-conductors 

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and LSE School of Public Policy

Monday 24 October 2022 90 minutes

Speaker: Dr Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School

Chair: Professor Alexander Evans OBE, Professor in Practice, LSE School of Public Policy

In this event Chris Miller discussed his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, with Alexander Evans.

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Hijacking Women's Health

Department of International Relations Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2022

Tuesday 4 October 2022 90 minutes

Speaker: Sophie Harman, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches and conducts research into Global Health Politics, Africa and International Relations, gender and feminism, and Visual Politics.

Discussant: Marsha Henry, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, LSE

Chair: William A Callahan, Professor of International Relations, LSE

Women’s health is and always has been hijacked for political ends. The US Supreme Court overturning of Roe vs Wade is but another example of elites using the needless death of women to further their own political advantage.

In this year’s Fred Halliday lecture, Professor Sophie Harman sought to answer two fundamental questions: first, why do women die when they don’t have to? and second, what happens when we take the relationship between women’s health and global politics seriously?

To answer these two questions, Harman mapped key trends in how women’s health is used and abused for political advantage around the world; and offer a key provocation, that these trends are fundamental to understanding, and even predicting, the chaos and crisis the world finds itself in. Women and women’s health saw it coming.  

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LSE Festival 2022
The Future of the United Nations

Saturday 18 June 2022 60 minutes

Hosted by LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World?

Speakers:

Martin Binder is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading and a member of their UN and Global Order Programme. 

Devika Hovell is Associate Professor in Public International Law at LSE. Her current research includes an investigation of the UN Security Council’s authority and decision-making.

Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government and Department of International Relations at LSE. His research interests focus on the governance of global issues, especially in the area of health and labour rights, and on the possibility of democratising global politics.

Chair:

Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.

Is the United Nations still able to perform its intended role as forum for global deliberation, negotiation, and policymaking? Multilateralism seems in crisis precisely when it is needed most. Challenges are multifaceted and originate from established, emerging and declining powers.

In his address to the UN Security Council in April 2022, President Zelenskyy of Ukraine said: “It is now clear that the goals set in San Francisco in 1945 during the creation of a global international security organisation have not been achieved. And it is impossible to achieve them without reforms. Therefore, we must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generations an effective UN with the ability to respond preventively to security challenges and thus guarantee peace.”

What reforms could revitalise the UN and what are the prospects of them being enacted? 

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This event was part of the LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World? running from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2022.

British foreign policy: are times a-changing?

Tuesday 22 March 2022 90 mins
Online public event

Speakers:

Kate Ferguson is Co-Executive Director at Protection Approaches. She is Chair of Policy at the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and she is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her book, Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, was published in 2020. 

Ben Tonra, Full Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Azure Security Forum and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Richard G Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations and a member of the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent.

Chair:

Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE.

What role is the UK embracing in its foreign policy? The invasion of Ukraine seems to have brought not only a new geopolitical environment, but also a re-evaluation of UK foreign policy priorities post-Brexit. What does this mean for the prospect of ‘Global Britain’? Is a British foreign policy outside the EU better able to set its own path or is it even more exposed to the vagaries of international politics? To what extent does the emerging security architecture in Europe suit British priorities? And are relations between the UK and the Republic of Ireland finally out of their recent rocky patch?

Watch the roundtable organised by the #NEWDIP project, the LSE Department of International Relations, and the European Foreign Policy Unit.

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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: from imperial bourgeoisie to post-communist middle class

Wednesday 16 March 2022 90 mins
Online public event

Hosted by the Department of International Relations, International Inequalities Institute and Department of International History

Speaker:

Tomila Lankina, Professor of International Relations in LSE’s Department of International Relations.

Chair:

Vladislav Zubok is Professor in the Department of International History, LSE. His most recent book is Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union published with Yale University Press.

This event saw Tomila Lankina discuss her new book on the long shadow of inequalities and why it matters for democracy in Russia. The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class challenges the notion that the Soviet Union destroyed the social structure of the past and built a new, Soviet, society, with a new party and nomenklatura elite.

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Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities

Thursday 03 March 2022 90 mins
Online public event

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Speakers:

Alina Averchenkova, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.

Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS.

Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor of International Development and Head of the Department of International Development at LSE.

Miriam Prys-Hansen, Lead Research Fellow and Head of Research Programme 4: Global Orders and Foreign Policies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).

Stacy Vandeveer, Professor of Global Governance and Human Security and Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance in the John C. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE. He serves as the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.

In this event, which launched the new book on Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities, the panelists discussed how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.

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How Can Evidence-Based Policing Advance Police Reform Overseas?

Thursday 27 January 2022 (90 mins)
Online public event

Speakers:

Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Centre on Evidence-Based Policing.

Ziyanda Stuurman, Policy Manager at the Abdul Latiff Jameel-Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL Africa) based at the University of Cape Town.

Chair:

Liam O'Shea, David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations

This inter-disciplinary event brings together criminologists and political scientists from the Global South and North to answer what actually works to improve policing not only in the West but also in non-Western contexts.

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