For the last seventy years, the United States has been the predominant state within the international system. Does it make sense to call the United States an empire? Is its power now irrevocably waning?
Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, will discuss the great transformations that we have to face as a society and the transformative role of the cities in the face of those challenges.
In his new book, The Return of Inequality, which he will discuss at this event, sociologist Mike Savage explains inequality’s profound deleterious effects on the shape of societies.
We trace the development of our modern ideas about the mind, from the highly influential work of Descartes and the impact of Darwinian evolution to more recent accounts of the ‘extended’ mind and the enhancements made possible by new technologies.
The event will assess the long-term impact of COVID-19 crisis on the Euro Area taking into account the existing structural differences between member states and in particular the fundamental limitations on policies evident from past experience.
Peter Henry discusses how poor countries lack infrastructure services: 1.2 billion people have no electricity and 1 billion live more than 2 kilometers from an all-weather road.
Citizenship. What does that word really signify? This episode of LSE IQ takes a look at the issue in all its complexities...
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A weekly series of short video debates from LSE's Institute of Public Affairs. Conor Gearty, director of the IPA and professor of human rights law, subjects LSE academics to a five-minute grilling on…