Contributor(s): | Governments worldwide invest heavily to project a positive image on the global stage, spending billions to host events like the #WorldCup or #Olympics in hopes of building prestige and soft power.

What happens when the unity and success they aim to showcase clash with the real struggles of their people? What happens when citizens flood the streets to challenge this glossy narrative and offer a different vision of national identity? #Brazil’s protests before the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics may provide clues to these questions.

Dr César Jiménez-Martínez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/cesar-jimenez-martinez

#Football #Brasil

Contributor(s): | Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Do today’s power brokers in Britain continue to be born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts?

In search of an answer, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman scrutinised the profiles, interests, and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. Their findings offer an insight into who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.

Check out the book by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman on this research: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719

Contributor(s): | The pivotal 1953 coup in Iran, orchestrated by the CIA and MI6, toppled the democratically elected Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh. Renowned scholar Fawaz Gerges explains how this event set a precedent for an American foreign policy of intervention in the region, shaping the political landscape of the Middle East.  

This video is based on research from Fawaz Gerges’ new book, What Really Went Wrong?: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East, available here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300259575/what-really-went-wrong/  

Fawaz A. Gerges is professor of International Relations at LSE and the author of Making the Arab World and ISIS: A History. He has also been a senior analyst for ABC News. https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/people/gerges

Contributor(s): | Through a series of soundwalks, Gisa Weszkalnys, Rachel Grant and Maja Zećo explore how the city’s overlapping energy regimes are already impacting its citizens.

Read the full article here.

Contributor(s): | Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Dr Nick Anstead of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE explains today's new information environment, its impact in politics in the UK and elsewhere, and how we can regulate it.

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on global politics in a year of elections: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Research/global-politics This #LSEFestival event will discuss the importance of trust for a functioning society here.