The Open Society as an Enemy – webinar
January 13 @ 7:00 pm
Free
J. McKenzie Alexander in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou
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Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this event, J. McKenzie Alexander will argue that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the Open Society are now seen by many people as vices, dangers, or threats.
Alexander will call for the concept of the Open Society to be rehabilitated and advanced. In doing this, there is an opportunity to re-think the kind of society we want to create, and to ensure it is achievable and sustainable.
J. McKenzie Alexander is Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. His research interests include evolutionary game theory as applied to the evolution of morality and social norms, problems in decision theory, and formal epistemology. His book, The Open Society as an Enemy, is published by the LSE Press.
Website: https://jmckalex.org/home/Home.php
Book: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ose
Alexis Papazoglou is Managing Editor of the LSE British Politics and Policy blog. He was previously senior editor for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, and a philosophy lecturer at Cambridge and Royal Holloway. He is also host of the podcast, “The Philosopher and the News”.
Social sciences publishing is undergoing a profound transformation in the digital age. From questions around AI and emerging technologies, to funding policy changes, what can we expect from the future of publishing in the social sciences?
As part of #OAWeek, join LSE’s dedicated publisher, LSE Press, for ‘What’s in store for social sciences publishing?’ a free and public symposium geared towards prospective authors and those interested in Open Access publishing. Founded in 2018, LSE Press is the School’s Open Access publisher of high-quality research across the social sciences.
As a publishing house based in a university, LSE Press publishes books and journals via Open Access based on their principal belief that research and teaching resources should not only be free to read but should also help to create greater equity in academic research. All their books and journals are free to read and download from their website.
This symposium seeks to share knowledge on social sciences publishing processes with early career researchers and authors, as well as spotlighting Open Access innovations, and enabling networking between researchers and publishing professionals.
3pm – 3.30pm
Arrival and registration
3.30pm – 3.40pm
Welcome and introductions
Michael Bruter, Incoming Associate Vice-President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research. On behalf of Susana Mourato, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research.
3.40pm – 4.10pm
Keynote
Professor Philippe Sands
4.10pm – 4.55pm
The Author’s view: 5-minute insights from LSE Press authors followed by Q&A
Chair: Professor Martin Lodge
Speakers: J. McKenzie Alexander, David Luke, Irene Buccelli, Sarmistha Pal, Naila Kabeer, Sandy Pepper
4.55pm – 5.05pm
Break
5.05pm – 6.05pm
The Publisher’s view: demystifying book publishing
Chair: Professor Dame Sarah Worthington (LSE Press)
Speakers: Lou Peck (The International Bunch), Professor Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE Anthropology), Dr Catherine Souch (RGS)
6.05pm – 6.10pm
Closing remarks
Niamh Tumelty – LSE Library
6.10pm – 7pm
Networking reception
LSE Press is proud to host this event in LSE Library –The British Library of Political and Economic Science, whose physical and digital collections continue to inspire researchers, writers and artists across many disciplines.
The British Library of Political and Economic Science (@LSELibrary) was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Building since 1978 and houses many world class collections, including the Women’s Library and Hall-Carpenter Archives.
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Attendees can expect…
- A keynote speech from special guest, Professor Philippe Sands.
- Short 5-minute talks by LSE Press authors on their experiences of publishing OA
- A panel talk demystifying the book publishing process; from proposal, to production, to publicity and marketing
- A drinks reception and opportunities to network with LSE Press commissioning editors and board members
- A chance to browse physical copies of LSE Press books and a pop-up exhibition of book covers
- An opportunity to browse displayed materials from LSE Library’s ‘Women and print media’ collection
- A curator tour of LSE Library’s new exhibition on the Exit Photography Group
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The British Library of Political and Economic Science (@LSELibrary) was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Building since 1978 and houses many world class collections, including the Women’s Library and Hall-Carpenter Archives.
Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the ‘Open Society’ are now, by many people, seen as vices, dangers, or threats.
As global citizens, we are implicated by a range of contemporary social questions informed by the Open Society; from the free movement of people to the erosion of privacy, no-platforming and the increased political and social polarisation fuelled by social media.
Expanding on Karl Popper’s thinking nearly 80 years since the original publication of his spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society, J. McKenzie Alexander’s new book, The Open Society As An Enemy, argues that a new defence is urgently needed now, in the decades since the end of the Cold War.
The Open Society as an Enemy interrogates four interconnected aspects of the Open Society: cosmopolitanism, transparency, the free exchange of ideas, and communitarianism. In re-examining their consequences, Alexander calls for resistance to the forces of reaction, alongside his claim for the concept of the Open Society to be rehabilitated and advanced.
Chair:
Professor Dame Sarah Worthington
Speakers:
Professor J. McKenzie Alexander
Professor Alan Manning
Professor Ilka Gleibs
Please register to join us for a discussion of the Crisis in higher education and the future of Diamond open access, on Thursday 19 Sept 2024, 17:00-18:30 (BST), in person at the London School of Economics, or online. A drinks reception will follow the in-person event.
Confirmed contributors include*:
- Dr Caroline Edwards (Executive Director, Open Library of Humanities / Birkbeck, University of London)
- Prof. Joe Deville (Managing Director, Open Book Collective / Lancaster University)
- Niamh Tumelty (Director, LSE Library / Managing Director, LSE Press)
* Nb. additional contributors may be added in due course.
Event description:
As we approach a new academic year, parts of the UK higher education sector are gripped by an escalating, albeit unevenly distributed, financial crisis. This is visible in the dozens of redundancy schemes operating at UK universities, and with those the near-total destruction of some arts, humanities and social science departments, along with many other funding cuts. As ever more universities seem to be governed by cutthroat market logics, it seems reasonable to assume that an inevitable casualty will be their wider civic responsibilities, even with funders and mandates expecting academic engagement and impact beyond the academy.
The growth of open access over the past decade has led to high volumes of research publications being made accessible to diverse publics without the need for expensive subscriptions. University libraries have helped to support this rapid expansion of open access, and many are now reconfiguring their priorities, including potentially significant shifts away from funding subscription agreements, towards funding so-called ‘Diamond’ open access programmes. Such programmes allow universities to allocate funding towards types of publishing which collectively fund open access scholarship, rather than tying funding directly from individual institutions to specific publications.
The event explores the tension between the understandable pessimism generated by the current crisis, and the sense, among many open advocates, that there are grounds for optimism. It brings together a group of speakers, all with extensive expertise and experience in directly engaging with these issues, including in both UK and US contexts, to collaboratively explore answers to questions such as:
- What lessons do emerging changes in library funding decisions hold for higher education more widely?
- Is it unrealistic to expect an expansion of Diamond open access models given the funding crisis in higher education?
- Could it be that the current crisis makes it even more necessary to clearly and confidently argue for the benefits of Diamond open access?
- How can libraries be supported as they reconfigure their priorities and budgets towards Diamond open access?
- What can the UK learn from similar debates in other national contexts?
Each speaker will provide a short presentation, before discussion opens up to the panel. This will be followed by questions from the audience. All are welcome whether in-person or online and there will be opportunity for all to participate in audience Q&A. A drinks reception will follow the in-person event, from 18:30.
The event is supported by LSE Library and LSE Press and Copim.
Location:
The in-person event will take place in the LSE Lecture Theatre, based on the ground floor of the Centre Building on Houghton Street (more information on finding the Centre Building [CBG] can be found on the LSE website). A link to access the online event will be provided to registered participants.
Registration:
Please complete this short registration form to indicate your interest in attending the event. Once you have completed the registration form, we will be in touch to confirm details for joining us in person or online.
- once we have reached the maximum number of registered in-person participants, the form will be updated to indicate that registration is available for the online event only.
Who were the key pioneers in the formation of comparative communications between the 1920s – 1950s, and how do their legacies of scholarship and practice inform the contemporary global landscapes of news reporting on war and the dissemination of propaganda?
Exploring Terhi Rantanen’s new book, Dead Men’s Propaganda Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies, this panel will examine how comparative communications research, from its very beginning, can be understood as governed by the Mannheimian concepts of ideology and utopia and the power play between them. The close relationship between these two concepts resulted in a bias in knowledge production in comparative communications research, contributed to dominant narratives of generational conflicts, and to the demarcation of Insiders and Outsiders. By focusing on a generation at the forefront of comparative communications at this pivotal time, this book uses detailed archival research and case studies to challenge dominant orthodoxies in the intellectual histories of communication studies.
Meet our speakers and chair
Bingchun Meng is Professor in the Department for Media and Communications at LSE, where she also co-directs the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Research Centre. Professor Meng is currently the Director of LSE PhD Academy and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP).
Jeff Pooley is Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and is Affiliated Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College. He also directs mediastudies.press, a nonprofit open access publisher in communication and media studies. His teaching and research interests center on the history of communication research, social media and identity, and scholarly communication.
Terhi Rantanen is Professor in Global Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She is the founder of the Department’s two double MSc programmes, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years.
Marsha Siefert specializes in cultural and communications history, particularly media industries and public diplomacy, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The most recent of her six edited books is Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work. Since 2020 she has taught in the CEU Erasmus Master’s program, History in the Public Sphere.
Wendy Willems is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She holds a PhD in Media and Film Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, a BSc/MSc in Economics (‘International Economic Studies’) and a BA/MA in Cultural Studies (‘Cultuur- en Wetenschapsstudies’) from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Myria Georgiou (@MyriaGeorgiou4) is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Professor Georgiou is the author and editor of five books and more than sixty peer reviewed publications. Her work has been published in English, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Greek. She has also worked as a consultant for a number of regional and international organisations, most importantly the Council of Europe in three different projects.
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This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.
Launched in May 2018, LSE Press (@LSPress) supports the promotion of high-quality social science research and enables wide public access through the use of open, digital publication methods. We publish books and journals and encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications. LSE Press works with authors to develop and launch publications that reflect the LSE founding purpose and mission.
The Department of Media and Communications (@MediaLSE) is a world-leading centre for education and research in communication and media studies at the heart of LSE’s academic community in central London. The Department is ranked #1 in the UK and #3 globally in the field of media and communications (2021 QS World University Rankings).
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How can an author bring out the stories and voices buried in their research to deliver the impact they are hoping for?
And how should writers communicate experiences of power and oppression that are not their own?
Whether embarking on a creative novel or an academic monograph, an author is faced with choices about the ways in which they tell their stories.
LSE Press author Naila Kabeer and Philip Hensher will explore the purpose and value of different narrative forms, as well as considering the impact of literature on global communities.
Meet our speakers and chair
Monica Ali is a bestselling writer and the author of five books, Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen and most recently, Love Marriage. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and the Patron of Hopscotch Women’s Centre which is empowers marginalised women and girls to achieve their full potential. Monica is the Chair of Judges for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Literature.
Phillip Hensher (@PhilipHensher) is the author of several novels and a collection of short stories, including Other Lulus (1994), Kitchen Venom (1996), and Pleasured (1998). In 2003, he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 “Best of Young British Novelists”. His latest novels are The Northern Clemency (2008), shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book), King of the Badgers (2011), Scenes from Early Life: A novel (2012) and The Emperor Waltz (2014). Philip is a regular broadcaster and contributes reviews and articles to various newspapers and journals including The Spectator, the Mail on Sunday and The Independent. He is a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of International Development. Naila is also a Faculty Associate at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and on the governing board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity. Her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the ‘Bangladesh Paradox, will be published by LSE Press in late Summer 2024, and will be free to read and download from their website via Open Access.
Sarah Worthington is Chair of the Editorial Board for LSE Press and a professor of law at LSE. She returned to the LSE in 2022 following 11 years in Cambridge as the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, a Fellow of Trinity College and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, a centre she established jointly on her arrival in Cambridge. She has combined research and teaching with a keen interest in governance and strategy generally, spending five years as a Pro-Director at the LSE (2005-2010). She was Treasurer of the British Academy from 2015-20 and President of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2007-2008. She is a Barrister and Bencher of Middle Temple and an Academic Member of South Square Chambers, Gray’s Inn. She was made QC(Hon) in 2010 and awarded a DBE for services to private law in 2020.
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This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.
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As we approach February 2024, marking two years since the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war, the full-scale invasion has defied many predictions by experts. Simultaneously, the war offers a myriad of lessons for scholars in international relations, military theory, economics, history, and various other social sciences. During the panel discussion, experts will delve into how the war has metamorphosed Ukraine and Russia since the February 2022 escalation, examining its impact on the immediate region and the broader global order. Furthermore, panelists will gaze into the future, contemplating what to anticipate in 2024 and beyond. The key questions to be explored include: What transpired? What is the current situation? And, most importantly, where are we heading?
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Michael Cox is a Founding Director of LSE IDEAS. He was Director of LSE IDEAS between 2008 and 2019. He was appointed to a Chair at the LSE in 2002, having previously held positions in the UK at The Queen’s University of Belfast and the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth. He helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre at LSE in 2004 and later co-founded LSE IDEAS in 2008 with Arne Westad. Professor Cox has lectured to universities world-wide as well as to several government bodies and many private companies. He has also served as Chair of the United States Discussion Group at Chatham House, as Senior Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo; as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia, and as Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research. He is currently visiting professor at the Catholic University in Milan.
Nathalie Tocci (@NathalieTocci) is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute), Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and independent non-executive director of Acea. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She is Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). She was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and, prior to joining Acea, she was independent board member first of Edison and then of Eni. She has held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington, the European University Institute, Florence, and has taught at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her research interests include European integration and European foreign policy, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, transatlantic relations, multilateralism, conflict resolution, energy, climate and defence. Her major publications include: Framing the EU’s Global Strategy, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (author); The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (co-editor); Turkey and the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (co-author); Multilateralism in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2013 (co-editor), Turkey’s European Future: Behind the Scenes of America’s Influence on EU-Turkey Relations, New York University Press, 2011 (author); and The EU and Conflict Resolution, Routledge, 2007 (author). Her new book, A Green and Global Europe will be published by Polity in October 2022. Nathalie is a frequent media commentator, with regular op-eds in Politico Europe and La Stampa, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC’s “The Context”. She has published in Foreign Affairs, El Pais, Project Syndicate, and is often interviewed by major international television and newspaper outlets, including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Euronews, PBS, Sky, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, El Pais, The Guardian, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle, amongst others. She is represented by Chartwell Speakers and Elastica.
Dr. Tamara Krawchenko (@T_Krawchenko) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, Assistant Director of UVic’s Institute for Integrated Energy Systems and Chair of the Local Governance Hub. She is an expert in comparative public policy and territorial development and has led international programmes of research on sustainability transitions, regional/rural/urban development and multi level governance, Indigenous economies, transportation and infrastructure governance and the governance of land use.
Leon Hartwell (@LeonHartwell) is a Senior Associate at LSE IDEAS and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington DC. His research interests include conflict resolution, genocide, diplomacy, democracy, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the Western Balkans. Previously, Hartwell was the Senior Advisor of the Central and South-East Europe Programme (CSEEP) and the 2022 Sotirov Fellow at LSE IDEAS, and CEPA’s Acting Director of the Transatlantic Leadership Program. From 2012 to 2013, he was also the Senior Policy Advisor for Political and Development Cooperation at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Zimbabwe, where his work included government and civil society engagement, political reporting, peace building projects, and supporting human rights defenders. In 2019, Hartwell completed a joint doctoral degree summa cum laude at Leipzig University (Germany) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). His thesis analyzed the use of mediation in the resolution of armed conflicts. Hartwell has published extensively in professional scholarly outlets and mainstream media ranging from the Negotiation Journal (Harvard-MIT-Tufts) and Oxford University Press to War on The Rocks. He speaks Afrikaans, English, Dutch, and Latvian, which he studied at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute.
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Event hashtag: #LSERussiaUkraine
LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE’s foreign policy think tank. Through sustained engagement with policymakers and opinion-formers, IDEAS provides a forum that informs policy debate and connects academic research with the practice of diplomacy and strategy.
This panel is part of LSE IDEAS’ Russia-Ukraine Dialogues. Given the recent escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war (24 February 2022), the conflict continues to be fluid and requires cross-disciplinary analysis. Fortnightly panels, scheduled for Tuesdays, will bring together in-house and external experts to report on and discuss the war’s impacts on various global issues.
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and health care? In his new book How Did Britain Come To This? (LSE Press), Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospitals, and the failures and successes of the UK and Germany in responding to Covid-19 before and after vaccines became available.
The book compares geographical fault lines and inequalities in Britain with those that have developed in other European countries and argues that the causes of Britain’s entrenched inequalities are consequences of shifts in systems of governance over the past century. Clement Attlee’s postwar government aimed to remedy the failings of the prewar minimal state, while Margaret Thatcher’s governments in the 1980s in turn sought to remedy the failings of Attlee’s planned state by developing the marketised state, which morphed into the financialised state we see today.
This analysis highlights the urgent need for a new political settlement of an enabling state that tackles current systemic weaknesses from market failures and over-centralisation. This book offers an accessible, analytic account of government failures of the past century, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to make an informed contribution to what an innovative, capable state might look like in a post-pandemic world.
About the speaker
Professor Gwyn Bevan is emeritus professor of policy analysis in, and former head of, the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an affiliate professor in the Istituto di Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. He has served on advisory committees to the Inspectorate of Police and Fire Services in England and Wales, the Education Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation on research in developing countries; and governments in England on allocating resources for healthcare and public health, the reform of publicly financed legal services, and funding research into overseas aid. He was director of the Office for Healthcare Performance at the Commission for Health Improvement (2001 to 2004), which was responsible for inspections of quality of care in the NHS in England and Wales.
About the Institute for Policy Research (IPR)
The University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR) a leading public policy research institute in the UK. We seek to further the public good through undertaking and promoting high-quality and impactful research, building links with the worlds of policy and practice, and increasing public understanding of today’s most pressing policy challenges and possible responses.
This event forms part of the IPR’s 2023-24 lecture series “Challenges for Britain: Rethinking Public Policy.”
Gwyn Bevan is Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis in, and former Head of, the Department of Management, LSE. He is also an affiliate professor in at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa and an adviser to the Inspectorate of police and fire services in England and Wales. He has served on advisory committees to governments in England on allocating resources for health care and public health, the reform of publicly-financed legal services, and funding research into overseas aid.
Abby Innes (@innes_abby) is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE. She is the author of Czechoslovakia: the short goodbye and has published widely on issues of party-state development and state capture in central Europe, and, more recently, on the political economy of the neoliberal state in the UK.
Ros Taylor (@rosamundmtaylor) is a presenter and contributing editor at Podmasters, and a former editor at LSE. Her book The Future of Trust will be published by Melville House in 2023.
Patrick Dunleavy (@PJDunleavy) is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE. He was Professor in the Department of Government at LSE from 1989-2020, having previously moved to the School from Nuffield College and the Open University in 1979. He is now Emeritus Professor, and Editor-in-Chief for LSE Press since autumn 2020. Patrick is a (founding) fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.
Launched in May 2018, LSE Press (@LSEPress) supports the promotion of high-quality social science research and enables wide public access through the use of open, digital publication methods. We publish books and journals and encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications.
The School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. It is an international community where ideas and practice meet. Their approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.
This event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023, taking place from 21 October to 17 November with events across the UK.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEPublicPolicy
Few predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even fewer thought it would still be going on 18 months later. There is though almost complete agreement that what began as a regional conflict has changed the world forever.
Meet our speakers and chair
Chris Alden is Professor of International Relations at LSE and is Director of LSE IDEAS. As Director, Alden co-produced the Russia-Ukraine dialogue series, housed in LSE IDEAS.
Robert Falkner (@robert_falkner) is Professor of International Relations at LSE and the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA, an alliance between LSE, NYU Stern School of Business and HEC Paris. His research focuses on global environmental politics, global political economy, and the role of business in international relations.
Eleanor Knott (@ellie_knott) is Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methods in the Department of Methodology at LSE. Her current research focuses on the politics of citizenship and identity in post-Soviet space and beyond. In 2022, she published Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova.
Tomila Lankina (@TomilaLankina) is Professor of International Relations at LSE. She helps coordinate the informal LSE taskforce to support students and scholars following Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. She has worked on democracy and authoritarianism, historical drivers of human capital and political regime change in Russia. Her latest book is The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia.
Michael Cox is a founding director of LSE IDEAS. He is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives, The Global 1989, US Foreign Policy, and US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion.
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This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.
This event launches the latest issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which invited authors from a range of disciplines to discuss their perspectives on the war, its causes, consequences and implications.
The LSE School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. It is an international community where ideas and practice meet. Their approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.
The Beveridge 2.0 Redefining the Social Contract is an initiative that brings the LSE community together with the intent of exploring avenues for collaborative cross-disciplinary research.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEUkraine
Join us for this panel discussion for the launch of Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world, a new publication from LSE Press.
This new book brings together a new generation of political economy studies, blending theoretical insights with empirical innovation, including broad cross-country data as well as detailed studies of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Colombia. The authors investigate the pros and cons of decentralisation in both democratic and autocratic regimes, and the effects of critical factors such as advances in technology, citizen-based data systems, political entrepreneurship in ethnically diverse societies, and reforms aimed at improving transparency and monitoring.
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Jean-Paul Faguet is Professor of Political Economy of Development in the Department of International Development at LSE. He is the co-programme director of the MSc in Development Management. He is also chair of the Decentralization Task Force at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Sarmistha Pal is Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Surrey. She has served as a research fellow at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford and also a Leverhulme research fellow in the United Kingdom.
Fabio Sánchez is a Full Professor at the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and was the Director of the Research Center of the same school.
Adnan Khan (@adnanqk) is currently on secondment as Chief Economist to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK. Before joining the School of Public Policy and STICERD, Professor Khan served as Research and Policy Director at the International Growth Centre at LSE and taught public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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This event will be available to watch on LSE Live. LSE Live is the new home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can’t attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE’s YouTube channel.
Launched in May 2018, LSE Press (@lsepress) supports the promotion of high-quality social science research and enables wide public access through the use of open, digital publication methods. We publish books and journals and encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications. LSE Press works with authors to develop and launch publications that reflect the LSE founding purpose and mission.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEEDecentralisedGovernance
‘Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets’. So what is wrong with the design of British government, and how has it resulted in catastrophic failures of governance in recent years? To mark the publication of his new book with LSE Press, Professor Gwyn Bevan and political podcaster and author Ros Taylor will reflect on a century of systemic failures of governance and explore what an innovative state might look like in the future.
Meet our speakers and chair
Gwyn Bevan is Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Management at LSE and author of How did Britain come to this? A century of systemic failures of governance. He is an Affiliate Professor in the Istituto di Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa; adviser to the Inspectorate of police and fire services in England and Wales, and to the Education Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation on research in developing countries. He has served on advisory committees to governments in England on allocating resources for health care and public health, the reform of publicly-financed legal services, and funding research into overseas aid. He was Director of the Office for Healthcare Performance at the Commission for Health Improvement (2001 to 2004), which was responsible for inspections of quality of care in the NHS in England and Wales.
Ros Taylor is a presenter and contributing editor at Podmasters, and a former editor at the LSE. Her book The Future of Trust will be published by Melville House in 2023.
Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at LSE, and Visiting Professor in LSE’s Department of Government. His key research interests include local and regional government and public service reform.
More about this event
This event is part of the LSE Festival: People and Change running from Monday 12 to Saturday 17 June 2023, with a series of events exploring how change affects people and how people effect change. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 15 May.
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