LSE: Public lectures and events

China, war and the civilizational state

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Coker | For the late Professor Christopher Coker the answer lay in the rise of a new political entity, the civil...

The politics and philosophy of AI

19 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Kate Vredenburgh, Professor Geoffrey Hinton | As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond the realm of science fiction, it is alre...

China, war and the civilizational state

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some countries, such as China and Russia, stand outside of the liberal international order and oppose values that the West takes for granted –...

The politics and philosophy of AI

19 Mar 2024

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To make sense of the transformative power and disruptive potential of AI, our thinkers at the cutting edge of the technological frontier discuss its ...

Digital cities for humans or for profit?

18 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Myria Georgiou, Dr Matt Mahmoudi, Professor Myria Georgiou, Professor Ayona Datta, Sara Alsherif | Our panel investigates th...

Digital cities for humans or for profit?

18 Mar 2024

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Our panel explore the politics and ethics which drive digital change in cities and the consequences of digitisation for the lives and rights of those ...

LSE: The Ballpark | China Policy: The Limits of Transatlantic Convergence with Dr Mathieu Duchâtel

18 Mar 2024

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In February 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Mathieu Duchâtel, Resident Senior Fellow and Director of International Studies at Institut Montaign...

Recasting the global economy and international institutions: collaboration, competition, and the new growth story

14 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Rachel Kyte, Professor Lord Stern | As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, our panel discuss the growth story for the 21st cent...

Recasting the global economy and international institutions: collaboration, competition, and the new growth story

14 Mar 2024

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As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, our panel discuss the growth story for the 21st century: building sustainable, resilient, and equitable ...

A new growth story: structural transformation; policies and institutions

13 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Lord Stern | As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, the second lecture explores structura...

Look again: the power of noticing what was always there

13 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Tali Sharot, Professor Cass R. Sunstein | The authors tackle a great question: why are we so often oblivious to things aroun...

A new growth story: structural transformation; policies and institutions

13 Mar 2024

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As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, the second lecture explores the new growth story: structural transformation; policies and institutions.

Look again: the power of noticing what was always there

13 Mar 2024

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Professor Tali Sharot and Professor Cass Sunstein discuss their new book, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There.

A world re-drawn; a world in crisis; a moment in history; the agenda for growth and transformation

12 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Emily Shuckburgh, Professor Lord Stern | As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, our panel discussed the first theme ...

Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism

12 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Humza Yousaf MSP | Humza Yousaf MSP, First Minister of Scotland looks at the relative success of European countries comparable to Scot...

Elections in Ukraine and Russia

12 Mar 2024

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Mariia Zolkina, DINAM Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, explains the cases of Ukraine and Russia.

A world re-drawn; a world in crisis; a moment in history; the agenda for growth and transformation

12 Mar 2024

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As part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series, the first lecture delivered was a world re-drawn; a world in crisis; a moment in history; the agenda for...

Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism

12 Mar 2024

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Humza Yousaf MSP, First Minister of Scotland reflects on the current UK economic model which delivers comparatively low living standards and poor prod...

Global ocean governance: past, present, and future

11 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Scott Barrett | The ocean is governed by a combination of property rights, established in customary law, cooperative agreeme...

Global ocean governance: past, present, and future

11 Mar 2024

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Drawing from history, international law, and game theory. Professor Scott Barrett discusses the achievements and setbacks of global ocean governance.

217 million census records: evidence from linked census data

07 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor James Feigenbaum | In this talk, James Feigenbaum shows how the ability to link individuals over time, and between databases...

217 million census records: evidence from linked census data

07 Mar 2024

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New historical census sources and advances in record linking technology are allowing economic historians to become big data genealogists.

LSE: The Ballpark | Super Tuesday 2024 results with Professor Jason Casellas

07 Mar 2024

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On March 6th, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Jason Casellas about the Super Tuesday results, the primary race so far, and what the trends may...

Déja vu all over again? Super Tuesday and the race for the presidency

06 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Jason Casellas, Dr Ursula Hackett, Mark Landler, Professor Stephanie Rickard | Jason Casellas is the John G. Winant Visiting Profes...

Déja vu all over again? Super Tuesday and the race for the presidency

06 Mar 2024

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The day after this important primary contest, academics and journalists reflect on the US presidential primary results and give their predictions for ...

How can we tackle inequalities through British public policy?

05 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Tania Burchardt, Professor Neil Lee, Professor Mike Savage | Our panel of speakers will cover a range of topics, such as how we ca...

What's funny about everyday sexism?

05 Mar 2024

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Contributor(s): Cally Beaton | They discuss how comedy can both perpetuate and conceal sexism, while also having the profound ability to reveal and ri...

Are we on the verge of a weight-loss revolution?

05 Mar 2024

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Are weight-loss jabs the answer to Britain’s obesity crisis? Should we be doing more to tackle the root causes?

How can we tackle inequalities through British public policy?

05 Mar 2024

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Researchers from across the International Inequalities Institute discuss their work and how their findings could impact British public policy.

What's funny about everyday sexism?

05 Mar 2024

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Dr Grace Lordan joins stand-up comedian Cally Beaton as they delve into the fascinating realm of comedy and its intricate relationship with sexism.

LSE: The Ballpark | The Limits of Presidential Power with Professor Andrew Rudalevige

04 Mar 2024

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In January 2024, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Andrew Rudalevige about the separation of powers in US government and the executive branch, and former ...

Shaping major cities – the challenge of being a mayor

29 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Marvin Rees OBE | What lessons are there about how to represent, lead and shape a city? How difficult is it to balance short-term prio...

Shaping major cities – the challenge of being a mayor

29 Feb 2024

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Running and shaping cities is among the most complex and challenging areas of public policy. What is it like to be a mayor?

The inequality of wealth: why it matters and how to fix it

28 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Katie Schmuecker, Professor Mike Savage , Liam Byrne MP | Yet, it doesn’t have to be like this. In his new book The Inequality of W...

The inequality of wealth: why it matters and how to fix it

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can’t afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the f...

Moments of polycrisis: a mayor's perspective

27 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Kostas Bakoyannis | It has become vital to draw from the local perspective when tackling global issue. The same is true for many organ...

Moments of polycrisis: a mayor's perspective

27 Feb 2024

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All politics is local. In an increasingly complex and dynamic world of multiple and overlapping crises, local authorities often find themselves at the...

Revolutionary papers: an exploration of anti-colonial and anti-imperial journals

26 Feb 2024

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Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodica...

Are we on the verge of a weight-loss revolution?

25 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Sarah Appleton, Nikki Sullivan, Paul Frijters, Helen | Joanna Bale talks to Helen, who found Ozempic ‘life-changing’, Clinical Psy...

Are we on the verge of a weight-loss revolution?

25 Feb 2024

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Are weight-loss jabs the answer to Britain’s obesity crisis? Should we be doing more to tackle the root causes?

The modern left for progressive governance

23 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Stefanos Kasselakis | In Greece, SYRIZA rose dramatically to lead the fight against euro-zone imposed austerity. Yet, it lost badly in...

The modern left for progressive governance

23 Feb 2024

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Across Europe, the left – in its different variants - is facing an electoral challenge. The populist, nationalist right appears in the ascendancy, w...

Transnational anti-gender politics and resistance

22 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Tooba Syed, Professor Judith Butler | What might feminist, queer and decolonial forms of resistance teach us about diverse forms of 'a...

Transnational anti-gender politics and resistance

22 Feb 2024

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As 'anti-gender' movements become more prominent globally, we ask Judith Butler and feminist activist Tooba Syed to share histories and forms of resis...

The new China playbook: beyond socialism and capitalism

20 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Keyu Jin | Yet Western economists have long been incorrectly predicting its collapse. Why do they keep getting it wrong? Because, a...

The new China playbook: beyond socialism and capitalism

20 Feb 2024

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China is a formidable and emerging power on the world stage, and its booming economy is the second largest in the world.

LSE: The Ballpark | Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy with Dr Jordan Tama

19 Feb 2024

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In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Jordan Tama, Provost Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service about his...

The 2024 Indonesian election: from Widodo to Subianto?

19 Feb 2024

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Prof John Sidel, Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, explains Indonesia's trajectory as a stable and consolidated democracy over t...

What is data colonialism?

19 Feb 2024

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Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources – our data – exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our informati...

The great fear: the politics of performing

15 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Richard Sennett | The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday...

The great fear: the politics of performing

15 Feb 2024

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Sociologist Richard Sennett speaks about his new book, The Performer: art, life, politics.

Transforming rural Southeast Asia

14 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Tania Murray Li | In Southeast Asia, 30 million more people live and work in rural areas today than they did in 1990. Yet ru...

Transforming rural Southeast Asia

14 Feb 2024

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Globally the proportion of people who live in rural areas is declining, yet the net number continues to increase: from 3 billion in 1990 to 3.4 billio...

Growth through investment: what should the UK's FDI strategy look like?

13 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Lord Harrington, Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Laura Citron | The recently published Harrington Review of F...

Growth through investment: what should the UK's FDI strategy look like?

13 Feb 2024

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An increasingly challenging global economic environment calls for an evidence-based discussion of the next stage of the UK’s strategy for the attrac...

Empowering the economy

12 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Christian Lindner | The German Finance Minister talks about new realities and strengthening Germany’s competitiveness for the benefi...

The shortcut - how machines became intelligent without thinking in a human way

12 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Nello Cristianini | Instead, the prevailing form of machine intelligence is the direct result of a series of decisions that ...

Empowering the economy

12 Feb 2024

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The German Finance Minister talks about new realities and strengthening Germany’s competitiveness for the benefit of its economy and its partners.

The shortcut - how machines became intelligent without thinking in a human way

12 Feb 2024

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Current media coverage of AI seems to assume that it has just suddenly appeared out of the blue.

The revolutionary city

08 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Mark R Beissinger, Professor Olga Onuch | In his new book, The Revolutionary City, Mark R. Beissinger provides a new underst...

The revolutionary city

08 Feb 2024

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Mark R. Beissinger provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.

The seaside: England's love affair

07 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Lord Bassam, Sheela Agarwal, Madeleine Bunting | England invented the seaside resort as a place of pleasure and these towns became ico...

The seaside: England's love affair

07 Feb 2024

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How can resorts, with their wealth of cultural heritage, forge a new future?

The Oceans Treaty as a win for multilateralism: what lies ahead

06 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Michael I Kanu, Philippe Carvalho Raposo, Lowri Mai Griffiths, Dr Robert Blasiak, Dr Siva Thambisetty | On 5 March 2023, state part...

The Oceans Treaty as a win for multilateralism: what lies ahead

06 Feb 2024

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Speakers address what was achieved in these negotiations, how the Treaty speaks to global justice, equity, and climate change and what happens next in...

Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ

06 Feb 2024

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This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.

The perils of Saudi nationalism

05 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed | Mainly the pervasive sub-national identities that dominated Arabia or the supra-national Islamic identit...

LSE: The Ballpark | The Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery

05 Feb 2024

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In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to the authors of the Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery, which estimates repara...

The perils of Saudi nationalism

05 Feb 2024

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In Saudi Arabia, the project of nation-building was troubled from its first days as the Al-Saud rulers struggled to construct a nation out of the frag...

2024 U.S. election: what you need to know

02 Feb 2024

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There is a lot at stake for the United States and the world in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Recent advances in the understanding of human sociality

01 Feb 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Joseph Heath | Major unanswered questions involve the relationship between biological and sociocultural factors in promoting...

Recent advances in the understanding of human sociality

01 Feb 2024

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Although each of us derives enormous benefit from the vast network of cooperative social relations that exists among human beings, there is still no u...

Limitarianism: the case against extreme wealth

31 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Lea Ypi, Martin Sandbu, Professor Ingrid Robeyns | What we need is a world without decamillionaires – people having more t...

Why is it worth staying curious about racial capitalism?

31 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya | The framing of racial capitalism can become a way to freeze analysis - as if the same circuit of dispo...

Limitarianism: the case against extreme wealth

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s often said that there shouldn’t be any billionaires. But this is a mistake.

Why is it worth staying curious about racial capitalism?

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There has been a huge increase in discussion of racial capitalism, linked both to a revisiting of anticapitalist analysis and of the legacies of colon...

Empowering citizens with behavioural science

30 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Ralph Hertwig | Nudging promises that minor adjustments in choice architecture can influence decisions without altering ince...

Empowering citizens with behavioural science

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Behavioural public policy has gained significant attention recently due to two key factors: political debates over government size and role, and the g...

Fluke: chance, chaos and why everything we do matters

29 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Brian Klaas | Brian Klaas explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and random events. How much differenc...

Fluke: chance, chaos and why everything we do matters

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the smallest accidents that have tilted the course of history itself?

It's in the news: we're decarbonising!

25 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Adam Vaughan, Dr James Painter, Fiona Harvey, Roger Harrabin | This event gathers journalists from various backgrounds to discuss the ...

Solidarity economics: why mutuality and movements matter

25 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Manuel Pastor, T.O. Molefe | Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maxi...

It's in the news: we're decarbonising!

25 Jan 2024

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How can journalists help citizens understand what net-zero entails? What it means for them, given their values and livelihoods?

Solidarity economics: why mutuality and movements matter

25 Jan 2024

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can we build an economics based on cooperation?

Protect, strengthen, prepare - 2024 as a moment of truth for the future of the European continent

23 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Alexander De Croo | Belgium will enter 2024 as the rotating chair of the European Union. As one of the founding fathers of the Union, ...

Protect, strengthen, prepare - 2024 as a moment of truth for the future of the European continent

23 Jan 2024

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Prime Minister De Croo talks about the strengths of the Union, its relationship with the United Kingdom, and the ways in which the EU needs to reform ...

In conversation with Bisher Khasawneh, Prime Minister of Jordan

22 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Dr Bisher Khasawneh | Bisher Khasawneh (@BisherKhasawneh) is Prime Minister of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Minister of Defence...

Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ

22 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Sam Friedman | More than one in four people in the UK, from solidly middle-class backgrounds, mistakenly think of themselves...

In conversation with Bisher Khasawneh, Prime Minister of Jordan

22 Jan 2024

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This special event welcomes LSE alumnus Bisher Khasawneh, Prime Minister of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

LSE: The Ballpark | The Future of US-China Competition with Dr Ashley Tellis

22 Jan 2024

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In January 2024, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Ashley Tellis, the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment fo...

Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.

Inflation: new and old perspectives

19 Jan 2024

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Contributor(s): Professor Iván Werning | Previous inflationary episodes have taught us a lot on what causes inflation and what can be done to reduce ...

Golden Passports: how elites buy freedom

19 Jan 2024

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Over the last two decades, citizenship by investment programmes have surged in popularity, with more than 20 countries adopting 'golden passport' laws...

Inflation: new and old perspectives

19 Jan 2024

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During the last two years, inflation has re-emerged in the developed world together with concerns about it being persistent.

LSE: The Ballpark | Why China Hawks are Wrong with Professor William Wohlforth

17 Jan 2024

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In 2023, the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, a...

LSE: The Ballpark | Rust Belt Union Blues with Professor Theda Skocpol

04 Jan 2024

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In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.

2024: A year of unpredictable elections

18 Dec 2023

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Our Global Politics series explores the debates at the forefront of politics and the implications of key elections.

How can we tackle loneliness?

12 Dec 2023

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This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How can we tackle loneliness?’.

LSE: The Ballpark | Master’s students essay competition on climate change

11 Dec 2023

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In 2023, the Phelan US Centre ran an essay competition for master’s students with the prompt, “What responsibility does the US have to the rest of...

A lecture by Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados

06 Dec 2023

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Contributor(s): Mia Amor Mottley, Esther Phillips, Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | Ms Mottley was elected to the Parliament of Barbados in September 1...