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Welcome to all new International Relations students for 2008-9!

Please note the Thinking Like A Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series which is free and open to all. Professor Kimberly Hutchings of the IR Department will be giving a lecture in this series on Wednesday 15 October 2008.

Please note the LSE Space for Thought Lecture Series - the event is free and open to all.

Europe@LSE Seminars begin on Thursday 16 October 08 with a presentation by Professor Christopher Hill, a former member of the Department. This monthly seminar series is jointly organised by the Government Department, the International Relations Department, and the European Institute, and is open to academic staff and doctoral students. Click here for the complete programme [Word document].

Info for new students starting October 2008: Details of the various induction meetings both within the Department and School-wide are now available here.

New MSc Programme: International Relations Theory, click here for more details [MS Word file]

Visiting Leverhulme Professor

Professor Spike Peterson is Visiting Leverhulme Professor at LSE in 2007 and 2008 (May and June both years). She is being jointly hosted by the Gender Institute and the Department of International Relations. In addition to a variety of activities with staff and students in Gender and International Relations, Professor Peterson is presenting a series of four Leverhulme Lectures while she is in residence. In May/ June 2008, she will be based in IDEAS, 2nd Floor, Columbia House.

May 12th 2008, 6pm, New Theatre, East Building. In this fourth and final lecture, ‘Civil War: coping, conflict and criminal economies’, Professor Peterson will argue that reproductive, virtual and informal economies are central to how civil wars are funded and sustained, but also that post-conflict policies require such analysis to have any chance of success.

LSE launches international research project on ‘Regulating Nanotechnologies in the EU and US: Towards Effectiveness and Convergence’

Dr Robert Falkner is to lead an international research project on the transatlantic dimensions of nanotechnology regulation, and particularly on the prospects for developing congruent approaches to risk regulation in this emerging field. The project, which is funded by a grant from the European Commission, will be carried out by researchers at the LSE, Chatham House, Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), an initiative of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The impetus for this work came out of the April 2007 U.S.-EU summit, at which U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched an initiative to seek closer cooperation on trade and regulation. The LSE-led research will result in the publication of a major report and several analytical papers, a major international conference to be held at Chatham House and a series of outreach events in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Washington throughout 2009. The project findings will feed into a major EU conference in 2009 and the 2010 EU-U.S. Summit.
Project website: www.lse.ac.uk/nanoregulation
For Press release click here [PDF file]

Welcome to all new International Relations students 2007-8! Please visit the FAQs and Information for Current Students to help with your queries.

IR Student Handbooks for 2007-8 will be available to download from Thursday 4 October 2007.

The monthly public Europe@LSE research seminars start on 24 October 2007. They are organised jointly by the International Relations Department.

Millennium: Journal of International Studies Conference 2007

‘PEACE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS’

20-21 October 2007, 9am
Clement House, London School of Economics and Political Science

Keynote address: Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago)

Opening Address: Professor Christopher Coker (LSE)

Closing address: Professor Oliver Richmond (University of St. Andrews)

What does peace mean in contemporary politics?  Who can make peace, and who defines it? Can war be used as a purposeful tool in the search for peace? This conference will provide a scholarly forum for rethinking the concept of peace from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, and will address the international causes, process, regulation and norms of peace.  The conference aims to provoke discussion and debate, and to revive the concept of peace in International Relations discourse.

Panel Themes include:

• Studying Peace: Critical Approaches to Peace Research
• The Politics of Peace
• Interrogating the Liberal Democratic Peace
• Peace in the Just War Tradition

Pre-register by: 12 October 2007

Further information and registration forms can be found on the Millennium website: www.e-millennium.ac, or contact the conference organisers at millennium.conference@lse.ac.uk

The Martin Wight Memorial Trust have set up a new website.

Details of the various induction meetings both within the Department and School-wide are now available here.

The Exams Timetable 2007 is now available online.

The Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) is pleased to offer two three year PhD studentships for research student in Cold War studies. The competition for these studentships, worth £13,000 per year each, is open to UK, EU, and overseas applicants. To be considered, candidates most be students in or have applied for admission to the MPhil/PhD programme in International History at LSE. Deadline 31 May 2007.

Professor Barry Buzan's October 2006 lecture Will the Global 'War on Terrorism' be the New Cold War? is now available as an LSE podcast. See Public lectures and events - Podcasts to download.

We are currently advertising three vacancies for Lectureships in International Relations. Deadline is 6 Feb 2007.

The IR Department Information for New Arrivals page has now been updated and includes details of the Introductory Meetings for New Students [Word doc]. Please also visit the Frequently Asked Questions for new students and the IR Dept Student Handbooks.

Sign-up for IR416 The EU in the World will be done electronically this year, from Monday 2 October. Read How to Sign up for IR416 The EU in the World for further instructions.

The Office Hours of the IR staff for Michaelmas Term 2006 is available as a Word document.

The Department is sponsoring the LSE public lecture series on the United Nations. The first lecture takes place on Monday 9 October: The UN's role in a revitalised multilateral system.

European Foreign Policy Conference 2006: 30 June - 1 July 2006.

The Exams Timetable 2006 is now available online.

Please take part in the Letters for Ingrid Project [PDF] in memory of Dr Dominique Jacquin-Berdal.

The Office Hours of the IR staff for Summer Term 2006 is available as a Word document.

Final year undergraduates: please take part in the National Student Survey

LSE-Peking University Double MSc International Affairs organised jointly by LSE and Peking University

Cold War Studies Centre Lecture Series 2005-6

The 2005-6 version of the SCHOOL CALENDAR is available online.

IR Student Handbooks (2005-6) are now online.

Prospective Students: Please see our FAQ pages:
MPhil/PhD applicants
MScIR/MScIR Research applicants
MScIPE/MScIPE Research applicants
BScIR applicants

LSE IR graduates are eligible to apply for the Masters in International Studies at the George Washington University.

Research Students: We have set up a page of postgraduate research students and their area of expertise. If you would like your details added, please email IR Web Editor Alison Carter on a.s.carter@lse.ac.uk

Research Units: The IR Department has three Research Units:
The European Foreign Policy Unit
The Conflict Analysis and Development Unit
The International Trade Policy Unit

The IR Dept celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2002-3 and there is a webpage of documents/photos from the Department's history at 75th Anniversary Dept of International Relations - Library Display

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