What are the implications of Michel Foucault’s critical social theories for how we think about freedom, power, and justice?

For roughly a quarter century after the Cold War, the Washington consensus or neoliberalism guided US foreign economic policymaking.

How reliable is artificial intelligence in critical, high-stakes situations? We speak to Professor Elizabeth Stokoe to explore the limitations of AI in emergency service calls.

In the past decade, many commentators have increasingly spoken of growing competition between the United States and China in areas like trade, industrial policy, but also on foreign policy and global influence more generally.

Racism and antiracism clash on a daily basis in media discourse. This joint talk reflects on current practices of "othering" in popular media.

In The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper defended the Open Society – a conception of liberal democracy in which individuals have freedom of choice – against external ideological threats presented by totalitarian and authoritarian leaders.

10 years since the seminal Social Class in the 21st Century was published, we will revisit the findings, ask if the trends have changed, why class seems to have fallen off the agenda, and what we can do to build solidarity in this new political era.

This episode of LSE iQ looks at whether we should still be driving.

In the present era, rising ecological scarcity and global environmental risks are a defining turning point for all economies, but especially those that are vying to win the “green competitive race” for leading global sectors and markets.

As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality.