Engaging with Iran
Public Policy seminar with The Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick and Vahid Alaghband
Iran is a huge market with many business opportunties for UK companies. However, doing business with Iran has been weakened by the unstable political situation, which makes comercial relations with Iran difficult to maintain. Chairman of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce, the Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick, wi ...
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Asia Risk Outlook 2012
But how will this burgeoning growth impact political systems; social welfare; cultural norms and the expanding demand for natural resources? How should the West assess the set of growth challenges emerging from the Pan-Asian region and which challenges should be prioritised over 2012?
Panel 1 will explore Market Risk in Asia through an analysis of structural and cyclical growth cycles in Asian ...
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Asia house
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Transforming Pakistan?
How we in Britain can help build Pakistan's future prosperity
The UK has had a long partnership with Pakistan, with strong cultural, business and diaspora connections. With elections coming up, Pakistan is about to enter a new chapter in its history. Yet some critical challenges remain to be addressed. 38 million people still live in poverty. 17 million children are out of school. And with ...
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Asia house
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Shirin Ebadi The Golden Cage
The Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi’s novel, The Golden Cage, is the story of three brothers whom the author knew through their sister, Pari, a childhood friend. Each brother subscribes to a different political ideology that tears Iran and their lives apart. As Pari observes, her brothers live deluded lives in golden cages of ideology.
The Golden Cage asks important questions about Iran’s 197 ...
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Asia House
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Global Leaders Series
Surging East: Asia’s Impact on Energy Demand
Over the next quarter of a century, Asia will be responsible for two-thirds of the world’s new energy demand. By then, China alone will consume more than twice as much energy as Europe.
Lord Browne will discuss the consequences of that seismic shift for the world’s energy system. Where will the energy come from? What geo-political tensions will em ...
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Asia House
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Chartwell Conversations
China and India: Partners or Rivals?
India and China have agreed a bilateral trade target of $100bn by 2015, and the two countries will expand cooperation over infrastructure, the environment, information technology, telecommunications, investment and finance. However, significant obstacles to their development remain: Indian businesses, such as the conglomerate Tata, may be increasingly int ...
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Asia House
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Women of the revolution
The uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa were a time when the 'revolutionary Arab woman' grabbed the attention of the western media.
As women took to the streets, shouted slogans and braved being teargassed, the media was in particular fascinated by the educated, articulate bloggers and activists who were feted as leaders of the revolution.
The fight for women's rig ...
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Frontline Club
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China Model 2
Against all previous predictions China has been completely transformed. This raises the question of the "China Model" that we are still trying to understand for the 21st century.
Kent Deng is a reader in the Department of Economic History, LSE.
Jude Howell is professor in LSE's Department of International Development.
Athar Hussain is director of the Asia Research Cent ...
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LSE
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The US and the Arab Revolutions
The US has been an active player in the Middle East over the past century, but has been of minor relevance during the Arab uprisings of 2011. The upheaval, however, will have deep implications for US policy in the region.
William Quandt is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. ...
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LSE
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Independent Regulation, the New Institutional 'Fix': Experiences from India
In the post-liberalization era, Independent Regulatory Agencies (or IRAs) are being propagated in many developing countries. This presentation focuses on IRAs in the water sector at the state level in India. The presentation will begin with the background to reforms in the water sector and explanations for the rationale and role of IRAs. Further, some major critiques and concerns over the IRAs in ...
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LSE
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Of Debts and Denial: The Greek Crisis in the context of the post-2008 world
Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar
Yanis Varoufakis is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. ...
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LSE
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Political Events
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Europeans without Europe: The paradox of the Arab Spring
The lecture will examine European reactions to the Arab spring and consequences for French and European foreign policy. It will consider the impact of recent events in the Arab world on Franco-British relations, European defense policy and transatlantic relations. How will the Arab spring change our perception of the Arab world? How should Europe respond to Islamist movements?
Zaki Laidi is p ...
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LSE
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Repositioning Bangladesh in the Western imagination
This event celebrates the publication of David Lewis new book Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society. In his new book Lewis sets out the main elements of Bangladesh's politics, economy and civil society in the years since the country gained its independence from Pakistan in 1971.
At this event David Lewis will talk about his new book and then discuss it further with contributio ...
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LSE
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Global Political Challenges: women advancing democracy
LSE IDEAS, the Wellesley College Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs and the Institute for the Study of the Americas public lecture
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Korbel Albright will address the future of US foreign policy and the leadership of women in helping to build prosperity, foster peace, and promote democracy across the globe.
Madeleine Albright was the ...
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LSE
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Presidential elections and blood minerals
Presidential elections are due to take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the end of November and current President, Joseph Kabila, is standing again for what could end up being a 15- year presidency.
We will be examining the prospects of the DRC which has suffered so much violence and where rape is used as a weapon by rebel forces fighting for control of valuable mineral resour ...
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Frontline Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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Joint Lunch with JCCI: The Economics of the Arab Spring, The Rt Hon The Lord Malloch-Brown
The changes during the last year, in Egypt Tunisia and Libya, combined with the unrest in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran and elsewhere in the region are likely to have significant effects. Few of these countries have regained stability and the economic effects will be felt for many years. The areas are wealthy and of key importance to us all; Japanese and British interests in the oil-rich Gulf are en ...
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Chetwode Room
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United Kingdom
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The Indian Political Tradition
Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office
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School of Oriental and African Studies
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Kashmir: South Asia-s Palestine?
The former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, is seen by many as South Asia's Palestinian counterpart. Bordered by Pakistan, India, China and Afghanistan, each country has laid claim to the territory that lies in the foothills of the Himalayas. It has been caught between continuous contestation of borders and autonomy since the partition of British India.
With India unwilling to acknowle ...
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Frontline Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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Political Events
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Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? Beyond our Means tells for the first time how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings instit ...
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Brunei Gallery
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United Kingdom
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First Wednesday: Occupy - What do they want?
What began in the financial district of New York City in mid September under the name Occupy Wall Street has become a movement that is spreading across the globe. But what do they want and how do they intend to achieve their goals? Are their aims realistic? Can they have any impact?
Join us at the Frontline Club to debate the aims and objectives of the Occupy movement and to discuss whether it ...
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Frontline Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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Political Events
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The Arab Spring: Have the torturers been stopped?
The brutal torture and murder of Khaled Said by Egyptian police in June 2010 and the Facebook page We Are All Khaled Said served as a catalyst to the uprising that eventually ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February this year.
The message the Egyptian people were sending was that they were no longer prepared to live under a regime that used torture as a weapon against dissent.
Nine months ...
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Frontline Club
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United Kingdom
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Professional Policing and Liberal Democracy
RSA Benjamin Franklin Medal Lecture
What is the most efficient way of preventing crime in a liberal democracy? How can we find the best evidence as to what works, and what doesn’t? How can our elected officials make sure police are held accountable for their effectiveness?
Professor Lawrence Sherman presents the case for a new civil society that can unify the police profession across all ran ...
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RSA
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British Pakistanis and Pakistan: 21st century citizenship and diasporas
The RSA, The Samosa and City University London present the second of a series of events exploring the complex and intimate relationships between Pakistan, Britain and the Pakistani diaspora in the UK.
Acclaimed journalist and author Anatol Lieven joins a distinguished panel to discuss the relationship between Britain, Pakistan, and the British Pakistani diaspora. Do Westminster's political ...
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RSA
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Political Events
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Reporting conflict: competition, pressures and risks
IN ASSOCIATION WITH BBC COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM
After the headlines trumpeting that Alex Crawford and Sky News were clear winners of the battle for reporting Tripoli, we will be taking stock of this recent chapter in covering modern warfare.
With a panel of newsroom executives and frontline journalists we will discuss how the conflict in Libya was reported and what its legacy is likely to be.
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Frontline Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Obama Syndrome
As the high expectations surrounding Barack Obama's election subside and his administration grapples with an historic midterm defeat, Tariq Ali in conversation with Bonnie Greer, takes a timely look at Obama and his notion of 'reform'. Can US politics ever escape a slant towards Republicanism and are Obama's domestic and international policies actually surrenders to the establishme ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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United Kingdom
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Is the European Union Becoming a Market State?
What is a 'market state'? Have the Euro-zone crisis and the European led intervention in Libya brought the EU closer to becoming one?
Philip Bobbitt is professor of jurisprudence and director of the Centre for National Security at Columbia University. He is author of Terror and Consent: the wars for the 21st century.
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LSE
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THIRD PARTY EVENT Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
THIRD PARTY EVENT Remembering Anna Politkovskaya - A special event and screening of A Bitter Taste of Freedom
With John Sweeney (BBC), Elena Kudimova (Anna Politkovskaya’s sister), Marina Goldovskaya (Director, “A Bitter Taste of Freedom”), Leila Alikarami (The 2009 Recipient of the RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Award on behalf of the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality in Iran), Maria ...
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Frontline Club
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United Kingdom
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Serbia-s European Perspectives and CINEMA KOMUNISTO Different Face of Serbia
Serbian LSE Alumni Association & FOSDI public lecture followed by film screening
One day after EU publicizes its opinion if Serbia can be a candidate for full membership, the panel of diplomats and experts discusses all options available to Serbia.
Laza Kekic is head of the Economist Intelligence Unit; Dr Musabegovic is president of the Serbian LSE Alumni Association and professor at the ...
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LSE
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Truth, Errors, and Lies: politics and economics in a volatile world
Department of Management public lecture
A key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, Grzegorz Kolodko applies his far-reaching knowledge to the past and future of the world economy.
Grzegorz Kolodko is professor of political economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw and was previously Poland's deputy prime minister.
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LSE
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Policy-Making Lessons from Sure Start
RSA Thursday
Sure Start was one of the flagship policies from the last government, and one of the few that has survived with support from the Coalition.
Naomi Eisenstadt, the first head of Sure Start, visits the RSA to explore the wider context of the development of Sure Start, how the programme developed and grew, and many of the mistakes made along the way, as well as addressing issues of ...
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RSA
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