LSE IDEAS

Free Event | Trade Disruption: Trump's Trade Policy and its impact on the EU and UK The return of Donald Trump to the US presidency has raised once again the spectacle of a new phase in the US-China trade war. There have also been threats to impose tariffs on other trading partners. How will this situation impact upon the EU and the UK as both sides consider a reset of their trade relationship. 📅 Wed 29 January | 6.30-8pm 📍 Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building ⬇️ Register Here https://lnkd.in/etbU_AeU

Honoured to be the keynote speaker at the 50th Annual Conference of BISA in 2025. Equally delighted to be returning to my alma mater at the Queen’s University of Belfast where I taught throughout the ‘Troubles’. In this lecture - part memoir and part reflection on what sometimes felt like a forgotten conflict on the edge of Europe - I’ll try and explain why so few expected the war in Northern Ireland to come to an end, what part the end of the Cold War played in bringing it about, and why in spite of many setbacks along the road, this particular peace process ( unlike some others tried at the time) has worked.

🌍✨ A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us at Together for Sustainability event at The Shaw Library! We were inspired by the insightful discussions from our esteemed speakers and panellists, including Mehrnaz Mostafavi, Perla Martínez, Sidiki Quisia. Special thanks to our Director of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative, Mary Martin, for keeping us on track, and to everyone who contributed to the engaging Q&A session. Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Carla Russo, Mark van Dorp #HumanSecurityBusinessPartnership #TogetherForSustainability #FutureFocused #LSE

Yesterday I chaired a timely meeting of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative (LSE IDEAS). The important work that Mary Martin and her colleagues have undertaken provides great guidance for private sector engagement with local communities and stakeholders to proactively build resilience and pre-empt and respond to crises. The application of this work will also be of practical benefit to companies struggling to apply the new EU legislation on corporate reporting and accountability, which has focused business attention on identifying and managing social impacts. Great work Mary and team. Along with my fellow board members, we had a riveting discussion on how we can make this work even more accessible to the business community, the operational potential of the programme's research, and the impressive outcomes of their fieldwork. My congratulations to the whole team for their important work on a sharp issue that is also front of mind for us at the International Chamber of Commerce. I look forward to continuing to support them as the programme evolves into the future.

📰 Where is China going? What does its alternative global order look like? We hear a lot about China’s grand projects like the Belt and Road Initiative, but how are they experienced on the ground in Africa, South America, and Asia? The Chinese Global Orders project brings together twenty-two scholars from five continents to explore these questions. As these four commentaries show, it seeks to pluralize the discussion by exploring “Chinese” beyond the PRC nation-state, “Global” as a space beyond the international, and “Orders” as a plural set of norms. The project seeks to do more than just describe Global China’s material impact, and it does this by employing a new set of concepts to theorize Chinese interactions in local, national, regional, and global spaces. Published over four weeks, this set of essays mobilizes the concepts of (in)visibility (Hasan Karrar), hypervisibility (William Callahan), (il)legibility (Carwyn Morris), and then (in)visibility again with a twist (Stephen Whiteman) to provoke new understandings of China’s engagement with the world. ⬇️ Read Here https://lnkd.in/ef-XA2xu

📰 Can European security be “Trump-proofed”? European security will have to adapt to the realities of a new Trump presidency. Stuart Austin, published in LSE's EUROPP blog, writes it may be necessary for leaders to downplay arguments around shared democratic values. ⬇️ READ HERE https://lnkd.in/ggbGxjtW

Let's see how this new scientific #theory on #ConflictPrevention works, applied to a case study! (The theory: in the first comment.) Many thanks to the LSE IDEAS team of scholars for the constructive feedback on my intermediate report of the study. I really hope that we can find an appropriate application scheme of my #PhD theory of ' #SixPowerElements', for conflict prevention in a case study country. Once it's logical applicability is tested and scientifically proven, it can be extrapolated to any crisis-prone world region. Thus, helping us to navigate a better, conflict-free world. Thank you, dear colleagues, for your input on developing this idea! <3 LSE IDEAS #GreatMinds together make a #BetterWorld for all.

📰 International Order Strategies: Past and Present | Research Report At an important time in foreign policy planning, a new era of “strategic competition” widely noted by policymakers in Washington and allied capitals has produced a new wave of strategic thinking and evolving strategic practices aiming to maintain or modify “international order”. This collected research report, edited by Dr. Aaron Mckeil, aims to clarify how strategies for international order are being understood and formulated today, and how this strategic thinking and planning differs from past eras of strategic competition, toward an assessment of its policy implications today. Contributors: Alexander Evans OBE, Aaron Mckeil, Anahita Motazed Rad, Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr, Yu-Shan Wu and Oliver Yule-Smith ⬇ Read Here https://lnkd.in/eTk9-J9x

📰 How will Trump's second term shape US-China competition across the Global South? Chris Alden, Felix Brender 王哲謙 and Lukas Fiala weigh in on the contradictions in MAGA's foreign policy vision. ⬇ Read Here https://t.co/qbpldysTDp

📸 China in a Changing International Order | 26-27 October 2024 During a two-day event organized as part of LSE IDEAS' Executive Masters in International Strategy and Diplomacy programme, experts convened to discuss China's grand strategy in a changing international order. Our panels included: China's Grand Strategy with Lukas Fiala, Olivia Cheung, Yu Jie, Nicolai Leveringhaus, Chair: Chris Alden Cold War 2? with Michael Cox, Sir Robin Niblett , Giulia Sciorati, Astrid Nordin, Jianyong Yue Chair: Aaron Mckeil Keynote Lecture: Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown A big thank you to all the speakers, moderators and participants who contributed to this important conversation. 📢 Applications are now OPEN for our Executive MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy. Join the programme for access to similar events. ⬇ Find out more https://lnkd.in/d2qx7wyA