Rituals and the Making of International Society

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2022

Thursday 1 December 2022

Speaker: Thierry Balzacq, Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2022/23 at LSE, Professor at the Center for International Studies, SciencesPo.

Chair: Jeffrey Chwieroth, Professor of International Relations, LSE

Diplomatic apologies, joint military exercises, gift giving, and global summits, are assumed to be some of the most iconic rituals of world politics. However, many actions that are achieved by means of rituals can be enacted otherwise. What criteria, then, do scholars employ to say that an action or an event is a ritual, and what difference (if any) does it make to its character as well as to its efficacy?

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The International Political Economy: sources of nuclear proliferation

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2020

Thursday 13 February 2020 

Speaker: Etel Solingen, Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California Irvine and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor, 2019/20 at LSE.

Chair: Karen E. Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.

Whereas relative power and security dilemmas have dominated the study of nuclear proliferation for decades, an approach centered on the "cui bono" (who benefits) question reveals how domestic distributional implications related to the global economy have systematic effects on states’ nuclear choices.

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International Liberalism and its Discontents

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2019

Thursday 31 January 2019 

Speaker: Stephan Haggard, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2018/19, LSE.

Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, LSE

Liberal internationalism is on the defensive across the West. Stephan Haggard examines the causes of this backlash and its global implications.

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Partners or Adversaries? Managing US-China Relations in the Era of Trump

Department of International Relations inaugural Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2017

Thursday 16 November 2017 

Speaker: Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A Rockefeller Professor of Government, Dartmouth College and the inaugural Susan Strange Professor of International Relations at LSE, 2017/18.

Discussant: Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE.

Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, LSE

The post-Cold War US-China “grand bargain” in economics and security is now unravelling, and faces new uncertainty in the era of Trump.

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