New analysis by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime suggests that across a selection of six private sector industries the scale and cost of organized crime is between $3.6-$4.8 trillion. The staggering level of private sector victimisation has gone largely unreported and unrecognised.
Speakers:
- Mark Shaw, Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
- Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
- Robin Cartwright, author of the Global Initiative's forthcoming flagship report Hidden Battalions: Transnational Organised Crime and its Impact on the Private Sector.
Poppies and Poverty: Implications of Afghanistan’s Continuing Search for Security
30 March 2017
After invasion, intervention, and insurgency, Afghanistan’s weak state and economy now pose the greatest current danger to its own citizens, its neighbours, and the West. Horia Mosadiq and David Mansfield discussed the growing threats that joblessness, migration, and the drug trade represent for human rights and regional security.
Speakers:
- David Mansfield is an LSE IDEAS Fellow and consultant advising on operational issues with regard to illicit drugs.
- Horia Mosadiq is Amnesty International’s Afghanistan Researcher. She was awarded the Afghanistan Simurgh Human Rights Award by the Arman Shahr Foundation.
- Chair: Mary Martin is a Senior Research Fellow in LSE IDEAS and the LSE Department of International Relations.
Decline of the West and Crisis of Democracy?
7 February 2017
Populism is on the rise across the West. How far does this reflect a decline in Western economic power? And how much does it threaten liberal democratic institutions? Podcast available below.
Speakers:
- Brian Klaas, Fellow in Comparative Politics, LSE;
- Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times;
- Chair: Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice, SOAS.
Beyond Obama: the Four Years Ahead
What impact will President Trump have on foreign policy? Is a 'grand bargain' with Russia and China possible?
Speakers:
- Chair: Luca Tardelli
- Peter Trubowitz, professor of International Relations, Director, LSE US Centre
- Steven Erlanger, London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Xenia Wickett, head of the US and the Americas Programme, Chatham House
Thinking the Unthinkable
After a proliferation of ‘unthinkable’ events over the last two years, how can leaders continue to first identify then adapt to the new, fast changing normal?
Speakers:
- Nik Gowing, Visiting Professor at Nanyang University, Singapore
- Chair: Michael Cox, Director, LSE IDEAS
Prospects for the Chinese Economy
What does the future holds for the Chinese economy - is the debt burden too large or is there further growth to come?
Speakers:
- Chair: Jonathan Fenby, Co-Founder Trusted Sources and Director, China Research, LSE IDEAS Associate
- Dr Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University
- Guy de Jonquières, Senior Fellow at European Centre for International political Economy
NATO at the Crossroads
29 June 2016
Confronting Putin? Surviving Trump? Where is NATO – and indeed the whole Transatlantic relationship – likely to be heading in these deeply uncertain times? Podcast available below.
Speakers:
- Jamie Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
- Anne Applebaum, former LSE IDEAS Philippe Roman Chair
- Chair: Michael Cox, Director, LSE IDEAS
Brexit - Britain at the Crossroads: European Consequences, Geopolitical Risks?
3 May 2016
This strategic breakfast assessed the international consequences of the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. Podcast available below.
Speakers:
- Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Financial Times
- Steven Erlanger, London bureau chief, The New York Times
- Yu Jie, China Foresight Project Manager, LSE IDEAS
- Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE IDEAS
- Chair: Michael Cox, Director, LSE IDEAS
Understanding and Confronting ISIS
This breakfast discussion focused on the growing jihadi threat in the Middle East and beyond. Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu, former French ambassador to Syria, advisor to the French Prime Minister and Defence Minister, and author of From Deep State to Islamic State, discussed the prospects of ISIS and of the broader jihadi movement as well as the limits of current Western efforts aimed at curbing it.
Speakers:
- Jean-Pierre Filiu, former French ambassador to Syria
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Decline of the West and Crisis of Democracy?
Populism is on the rise across the West. How far does this reflect a decline in Western economic power? And how much does it threaten liberal democratic institutions?
Speakers:
- Brian Klaas, Fellow in Comparative Politics, LSE;
- Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times;
- Chair: Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice, SOAS.
Listen to the podcast
NATO at the Crossroads
Confronting Putin? Surviving Trump? Where is NATO – and indeed the whole Transatlantic relationship – likely to be heading in these deeply uncertain times?
Speakers:
- Jamie Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
- Anne Applebaum, former LSE IDEAS Philippe Roman Chair
- Chair: Michael Cox, Director, LSE IDEAS
Listen to the podcast
Brexit - Britain at the Crossroads: European Consequences, Geopolitical Risks?
This strategic breakfast assessed the international consequences of the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union.
Speakers:
- Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Financial Times
- Steven Erlanger, London bureau chief, The New York Times
- Yu Jie, China Foresight Project Manager, LSE IDEAS
- Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE IDEAS
- Chair: Michael Cox, Director, LSE IDEAS
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