Security and International Relations Programme Seminar

Hi all,

Below are details about the next Security and International Relations Programme Seminar.

Hope to see you there,

Aidan

 

6th December, 18:00, Westminster Forum, 5^th Floor 32-38 Wells Street

“Bursting the Bubble: Lessons of Social Media’s Impact on Social Activism from KONY2012 and Beyond”

MarkKersten, LSE, creator of, and contributor to, Justice in Conflict blog.

 

The Justice in Conflict blog provides up-to-date commentaries on a wide range of issues related to international relations/law and can be accessed here.

Analyses of KONY 2012 can be accessed here.

The “KONY 2012” film is available to view here...

Security and International Relations Programme Seminar

Hello all,
Below are details about this Thursday’s Security and International Relations Programme Seminar.
Hope to see you there,
Aidan

15th November 2012: Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street. 
Dr Toby Dodge, Reader in International Relations, LSE:
“Intervention and dreams of exogenous state-building; the applications of the Liberal Peace to Afghanistan and Iraq”

Dr. Toby Dodge is Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS, a Reader in the International Relations Department at the LSE, and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Security and International Relations Seminar Series

Below is a list of forthcoming seminars in the Security and International Relations Seminar series. Hope to see you there….

25th October 2012

Ausuma Monajed, Member of the Syrian National Council and Executive Director of the Strategic Research & Communication Centre:

“What’s next in the Syrian Conflict?”

15th November 2012

Dr Toby Dodge, Reader in International Relations, LSE:

“Intervention and dreams of exogenous state-building; the applications of the Liberal Peace to Afghanistan and Iraq”

6th December 2012

Mark Kersten, creator of, and contributor to, Justice in Conflict blog, LSE:

“Bursting the Bubble: Lessons of Social Media's Impact on Social Activism from KONY2012 and Beyond”

All seminars start at 18:00 and will be held in the Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW. Contact Dr Aidan Hehir for further details (a.hehir@wmin.ac.uk)

“Useful or Useless?: The EU Role in the Arab Revolts”

Thanks to all of you who attended the first of this year’s Security and International Relations Programme Seminars last Thursday (4^th October).

Professor Rosemary Hollis gave a seminar titled, “Useful or Useless?: The EU Role in the Arab Revolts”.

This was a fascinating, and very timely analysis, of the impact of the EU’s policies towards the Middle East and North Africa prior to the eruption of the “Arab Spring”. Professor Hollis advanced a very critical assessment – particularly of the UK’s role – and argued that the EU exacerbated the tensions and frustration amongst the general public which exploded in late 2010.

A video of her talk is available here….

All the best,

Aidan

The Crisis in Syria

A recording of the recent roundtable on the crisis in Syria is available to view here.

All the best,

Aidan

The Crisis in Syria

On Wednesday 29^th February the Department of Politics and International Relations will host a seminar jointly organised by the Democracy and Islam Programme and the Security and International Relations Programme on the current crisis in Syria and its implications for international relations.

Speakers

Professor Roland Dannreuther, Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations

Dr AbdelwahabEl-Effendi, Reader in Politics and co-ordinator of the Democracy and Islam Programme

Dr Aidan Hehir, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Security and International Relations Programme.

The seminar will take place @ 18:00 in the Westminster Forum, Fifth Floor, 32-38 Wells Street. All are welcome to attend.

Security and International Relations Seminar: “The Whore of the Ages: 100 years of not learning from Balkan interventions”

The next Security and International Relations Seminar takes place his Thursday, 23^rd February, 18:00 in the Westminster Forum (5^th Floor 32-38 Wells St)

Title: “The whore of the ages: 100 years of not learning from Balkan interventions”

Speaker: Robert Wilton, Head of Political Affairs at International Civilian Office, Kosovo.

Mr Wilton previously served as Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo and as a Professor of History at the American University in Kosovo. The International Civilian Office plays a central role in the Kosovo political system and is mandated to "provide international support for a European future for Kosovo".

All are very welcome to attend.