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Economic nationalism and global (dis)order

Hosted by the Department of International Relations

In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)

Speaker

Professor Robert Falkner

Chair

Dr Katerina Dalacoura

Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amidst growing geopolitical rivalry.

The lecture will be based on his new co-authored book, The Market in Global International Society: An English School Perspective on International Political Economy.

Meet our speaker and chair

Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at LSE and the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA. He held academic positions at the universities of Oxford, Kent and Essex before joining LSE. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Simone Veil Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Katerina Dalacoura is Associate Professor in International Relations at LSE. She has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for three years starting September 2021. Her project, entitled The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilisation and Nation will be a work of intellectual history that engages with the concept of a ‘global IR’.

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The Martin Wight Memorial Lecture is a biennial lecture which celebrates the life and achievements of Professor Martin Wight, a seminal figure in the development of international relations theory in Britain and a member of the International Relations Department at LSE from 1949-1962.

The Department of International Relations (@LSEIRDept) at LSE is now in its 97th year, and is one of the oldest as well as largest IR departments in the world, with a truly international reputation. The Department is ranked 2nd in the UK and 5th in the world in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2024 tables for Politics and International Studies.

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