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We’re thrilled to announce that the Department of International Relations is now also on BlueSky! 🌐
🔗Stay connected and follow us for the latest updates, insights, and news from our department: bit.ly/3D1alIg
When do centre-right parties cooperate with the far right, and when do they draw the line?
Professors Ulrich Sedelmeier and Michael Blauberger explore “flexible firewalls”, selective cooperation and strategic demarcation in EU politics.
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📖 Read Dr Rohan Mukherjee’s article, “The Global South, Liberal Order, and Illiberal Transnationalism,” published in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations.
🔗 brill.com/view/journals/gg/3…
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Despite the Democrats’ midterm wins, Europe will still need to contend with Trump’s chaotic foreign policy writes @lse_us Director, @ptrubowitz of @lseirdept blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
📣 Dr Martin Bayly has published a research article in the Cambridge Review Review of International Affairs, titled “What’s historical about historical IR? Narrativity, the philosophy of history and world order studies.”
🔗 Read the full article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
📣 Join us for a panel discussion marking the launch of The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations: Thinking With and Beyond Barry Buzan.
🔗Register here: lse.ac.uk/events/study-of-in…
In an article for Foreign Policy, @rohan_mukh, together with Christopher Chivvis and @MilanV, examines the transnational ties between right-wing populists and their implications for international cooperation.
🔗 foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/29…
⚖️ How do international courts navigate political constraints when making decisions?
A review in @LSEReviewBooks examines Judging Under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts, a book by Dr Theresa Squatrito.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb…
📣 Dr Stephanie Schwartz has co-authored a new article, “What is policy relevance in refugee and forced #migration research?: rethinking the dual imperative”, in the Journal of Refugee Studies.
🔗 Read more: academic.oup.com/jrs/article…
📣 Join us for a fireside chat book launch that introduces the new book by Olu Fasan, In The National Interest: The Road to Nigeria's Political, Economic and Social Transformation.
🔗 Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/66-years-…
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Is Georgia pursuing multi-alignment, or drifting towards strategic irrelevance?
In this new analysis for @ICDS_Tallinn, our DINAM Fellow @TeonaGiuashvil examines how the Georgian Dream government has reoriented Georgia’s foreign policy since 2022.
icds.ee/en/georgias-foreign-…
🚨 We're #hiring at LSE!
Join our Department of International Relations: 🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Geoeconomics)
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🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Global Environmental Politics)
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📆 Deadline: 7 September 2026.
In a thought-provoking three-part series, MSc International Relations student Anjjali Shrivastav examines the legal, political, and geopolitical forces shaping the global energy transition.
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Our DINAM Fellow, @TeonaGiuashvil, has written a new article for @Carnegie_Europe, "Building a Pan-European Community of Trust."
It proposes practical pathways to strengthen pan-European cooperation through institutional reform and policy innovation.
carnegieendowment.org/europe…
Read DINAM Fellow @TeonaGiuashvil’s new piece titled, “Fading Power? The EU’s Strategic Dilemmas in the South Caucasus,” published by @SCEEUS_UI, which examines how shifting geopolitical dynamics have exposed the limits of the EU’s approach to the region.
sceeus.se/en/publications/fa…
📢 Professor @FawazGerges joined @BBCWorld to discuss the latest escalation in the US-Iran conflict and the significance of these recent developments.
🎥Watch the full interview: redirect.vuelio.co.uk/Broadc…
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Dr Marwa Daoudy joined us for the 2026 Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture to discuss how colonialism continues to shape environmental vulnerabilities in the Arab world, with Dr @JasmineKGani as discussant.
✍️ Read the report: bit.ly/4pbPBBt
📺 Watch: youtube.com/live/oIedZ7Sg2uI…
📑 Read our PhD candidate @seowoohyeok's new research article, "Nuclear technology and (de)politicising memories of #nuclear violence in postcolonial South Korea (1945–1975)," published in
@CoCo_journal.
🔗 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1177/001083672614…
Join us at the LSE Festival for “Saving the world one family at a time: screening and discussion of Gone South Village.”
📅 Wednesday 17 June 2026
⏰ 6.00–7.30pm
📍 LSE campus
🔗 Find out more and register: lse.ac.uk/events/lse-festiva…
#partofLSE #LSEFestival
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Dr Theresa Squatrito’s article, “The power and constraints on international #law in a political world,” featured in the March edition of LSE Research for the World, explores why some international courts challenge governments while others do not.
🔗 lse.ac.uk/research/research-…
📢 Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture, “The Ecological Continuation of Empire in the Arab World” in which Marwa Daoudy explores how #colonialism, #capitalism, and environmental exploitation continue to drive inequality.
🎟️ Register: bit.ly/49UUrwy
