Join Alexander Evans, Elizabeth Ingleson, Kathleen McNamara and Mona Paulson as they discuss whether current geopolitics means the age of free markets is really coming to an end.
For decades, neoliberal ideologies and interests elevated free markets over political interventions. Today however the United States and the European Union have dramatically reversed course with a variety of new policy initiatives. From technologies to fight climate change to efforts to develop silicon chips in competition with China, we are in a new age of industrial policy and geopolitical markets. What are the roots of this change, and will the new economic statecraft prove a success, or a failed experiment in deglobalisation?
Meet our speakers and chair:
Professor Alexander Evans, (@aiaevans) Professor in Practice and Programme Director MPA in Data Science at the School of Public Policy at LSE. A career diplomat, he has worked as an advisor to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, Strategy Director in the Cabinet Office, and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office. He has served as Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan, led the United Nations Security Council expert group on Daesh, Al Qaida and the Taliban, and been a senior advisor to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in the U.S. Department of State.
Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (@lizingleson), Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. She specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labour. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press).
Professor Kathleen R McNamara (@ProfKMcNamara), Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Global Political Economy Project. Her work focuses on markets, culture, and politics in the European Union and the United States, with particular interest in industrial policy, money, and globalisation. She is the author of The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union (Cornell University Press, 1998), and co-editor of Making History: European Integration and Institution Change at Fifty (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy award from the International Studies Association and the ISA’s 2020 SWIPE Award for Mentoring Women in International Political Economy.
Dr Mona Paulsen, Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. She researches and teaches in the fields of international trade and investment law, international development, international political economy, and economic security.
Chair:
Dr Rohan Mukherjee (@rohan_mukh) is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS. His research focuses on rising powers and how they navigate the power and status hierarchies of international order. His book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press) received the 2024 T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations Award from the International Studies Association (ISA), the 2023 Hedley Bull Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the 2023 Hague Journal of Diplomacy Book Award.
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