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Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video

London School of Economics and Political Science

Video files from LSE"s spring 2012 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.

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01:28:53

EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU's Influence in...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/02

Contributor(s): Professor Hiski Haukkala, Dr Petr Kratochwil, Dr Nicu Popescu, Professor Stefan Wolff | This roundtable on 'EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU's Influence in its Eastern Neighbourhood' looks at the impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership on the domestic politics of its partner countries, and how this has changed since the Lisbon Treaty. Professor Hiski Haukkala (University of Tampere, Finland); Dr Petr Kratochwil (Institute of International

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01:27:59

The Pattern of the Past in North Africa

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/02

Contributor(s): Dr James McDougall | South Asia, China, Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa: most major world regions have histories that can be clearly characterised. The Maghrib, despite being perhaps historically the first region to be provided with a model of historical development (by Ibn Khaldun), remains to a large degree unidentifiable with its own distinctive 'pattern of the past'. This may be changing as scholarship focuses more on global, cross-regional, and interactive histories

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01:11:26

Reflections on Russia's place in Europe in the 18th...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/02

Contributor(s): Professor Alexander Kamenskii | In the course of the eighteenth century, Russia became an active participant in European diplomatic relations. But to what extent was Russia part of Europe? And is it possible to study Europe without including Russia? Alexander Kamenskii is deacon of the Faculty of History and chief research fellow of the Poletaev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

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01:25:35

Civilian Assistance to Pakistan - Cure or Curse?

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/02

Contributor(s): Dr Ehtisham Ahmad, Rachid Benmassoud, Dr Robert Hathaway, Shahid Kardar, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Kashif Zafar | Has civilian assistance to Pakistan over the past three decades assisted with development and improvements in living standards, or become a hindrance? Has the availability of bilateral and multilateral largesse, often driven by strategic considerations, subverted the difficult structural reforms that the assistance was designed to promote? The publication of the recent Woodrow

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01:24:34

Portugal: restoring credibility and confidence

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/01

Contributor(s): Vítor Gaspar | Vítor Gaspar is Minister of Finance. He was appointed Portuguese Finance Minister in Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho's cabinet in June 2011. Mr Gaspar was an adviser to the Bank of Portugal from February 2010, having been from 2007 Director-General at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (ERI) with the President of the European Commission. Previously he was Director-General for Research at the European Central Bank for six years. Gaspar was awarded a degree in

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01:27:20

A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/01

Contributor(s): David Lammy MP | The riots across England in the summer of 2011 were sparked by events in Tottenham, north London. Tottenham was also the site of the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985. David Lammy, MP for the area, reflects on the causes of these events and what role racial inequality played. David Lammy has been the Labour MP for Tottenham since 2000. Rob Berkeley is Director of the Runnymede Trust.

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01:20:23

God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/31

Contributor(s): Cullen Murphy | For centuries states have used their power to censor information, to conduct surveillance, to impose belief, to manipulate and to punish. Cullen Murphy's extraordinary, provocative new book which he will talk about in this lecture explores the idea that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed in Europe (and beyond) for over 700 years - is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with the creation of the modern world. Travelling from freshly opened

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01:19:17

Revolution 2.0

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/31

Contributor(s): Wael Ghonim | In this conversation, Wael Ghonim will discuss his new book Revolution 2.0| providing a unique insider's story from the heart of the Egyptian Spring. He gives unparalleled insight into why the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found a voice. Wael Ghonim was born in 1980 in Cairo, and lived in Saudi Arabia for most of his childhood until moving back to Egypt at the age of 13. A prominent internet entrepreneur, by his mid-twenties Wael was a key

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01:34:00

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/30

Contributor(s): Paul Mason | Our world is changing dramatically. Social upheaval has followed worldwide economic crisis and the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is widening. In 2011, this profound disconnect found expression in events that we were told had been consigned to history: revolt and revolution. In his new book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere which he will discuss in this lecture Paul Mason sets out to explore the causes and consequences of this current wave of struggle,

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01:32:10

Outside In: a conversation with Peter Hain

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/30

Contributor(s): Peter Hain MP | During a discussion on his latest book Outside In|, former anti-apartheid leader turned Labour cabinet minister Peter Hain will recall his campaigning days, receiving a letter bomb, being prosecuted in two political trials and his role in negotiating the historic 2007 settlement in Northern Ireland. He was also Britain's first-ever African-born Africa Minister and a passionate advocate and deliverer of devolved government to Wales. Featuring Iraq, Mugabe, Europe,

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00:52:57

The Burning Issue: Parasites - enemy of the poor

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/30

Contributor(s): Professor Tim Allen | For millions of the world's poor, parasitic infections can be debilitating or even lethal. There are high hopes for new mass medication programmes but treatment has not always proceeded as planned, and in some cases there has been fierce local resistance. In this Burning Issue public lecture, Tim Allen – professor of development anthropology – will examine the facts, the failures and the future of our fight against one of humankind's most endemic invisible

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01:19:55

Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and Should Not Become...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/26

Contributor(s): Dr Ramachandra Guha | High annual growth rates, a rising middle class, and successes in the software sector have led to much talk of India becoming a superpower. But rather than seek to expand India's influence abroad, the political class and intellectual elite would do well to focus on the fissures within. Ramachandra Guha is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2011-2012.

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01:15:54

From Regional to Global Players: The Emergence of...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/26

Contributor(s): Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung | In this lecture, Henry Wai-chung Yeung will aim to explain how a number of leading business firms from Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan are articulated into global production networks and become major players in their respective market niches. Drawing upon a triangular analytical framework and original empirical data, he will seek to explain the complex relationships between the dynamic

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01:24:40

Dangers and Demon(izer)s of Democratization in Egypt:...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/25

Contributor(s): Professor John Sidel | Over the past several months, an alarmist picture of developments in Egypt has emerged in the media, raising the spectre of Islamization, inter-religious violence, and generalized criminality and disorder. Yet these early signs of trouble are amply familiar to observers of transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy elsewhere in the developing world. In particular, the case of Indonesia is especially instructive, given a set of striking parallels with

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01:18:19

Histories of International Law: dealing with...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/25

Contributor(s): Professor Martti Koskenniemi | Martti Koskenniemi is director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and visiting professor at LSE Law.

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01:21:09

The Geostrategic Importance of Cyprus: long term...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/25

Contributor(s): Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis | Placed at the crossroads of three continents, Cyprus remains of key strategic importance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis is the minister of foreign affairs for Cyprus.

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01:03:11

Bill Gates and Hans Rosling addressing the 2012...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/25

Contributor(s): Bill Gates, Professor Hans Rosling | The Global Poverty Project has partnered with The Co–operative during the UN Year of Co-operatives to launch a new initiative that will raise awareness and inspire communities to take action for the 1.4 billion people still living in extreme poverty. Bill Gates will speak to the inaugural Global Poverty Ambassadors as part of the London launch of his Annual Letter. In the letter, he will outline the key innovations and commitment needed to

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01:38:46

The Soviet Union's Collapse: causes and consequences

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/24

Contributor(s): Rodric Braithwaite, Andrei Grachev, Professor Margot Light | What were the origins of the collapse of the USSR? What did 1991 look and feel like from the inside? What is the legacy of 1991 for the former USSR itself? This expert panel will reflect on how history unfolded. Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow from 1988 to 1992. Andrei Grachev served on the International Relations Department of the CPSU and was confidant and official spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev

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01:08:58

Willpower: Self-Control, Decision Fatigue, and Energy...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/24

Contributor(s): Dr Roy F Baumeister | A new understanding of how people control themselves has emerged from the past decade of research studies. Self-control depends on a limited energy supply, and each person's willpower fluctuates during the day as various events deplete and then replenish it. Decision making and creative initiative also deplete the same willpower supply, while eating and sleeping can restore it. Some circumstances propel people to perform well despite depleted willpower,

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01:23:29

The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/01/24

Contributor(s): Jodi Kantor, Professor Sarah Churchwell | Jodi Kantor will be in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell to discuss her new book The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage which is an intimate portrait of the Obamas in the White House by a New York Times journalist who has been covering the President and first lady for 5 years. The Obamas had never lived together full-time as a family until they moved into the White House - and that's where their political and personal lives became

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