LSE IDEAS is a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy. Its mission is to use LSE's intellectual resources to help train skilled and open-minded leaders and to study international affairs through world-class scholarship and engagement with practitioners and decision-makers. As its name implies, IDEAS aims at understanding how today's world came into being and how it may be changed, in line with LSE's old motto: rerum cognoscere causas - to understand the causes of things.
BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group Annual Conference 18 - 19 September 2008, LSE IDEAS The conference is co-hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and IDEAS. For details, see the conference Announcement and Programme.
LSE-Columbia University Masters Double Degree in International and World History and the LSE-PKU Masters Double Degree in International Affairs The deadlines for applications for both Masters Double Degrees have now passed and successful candidates will be informed shortly. For more information, visit the LSE-Columbia Double Degree and the LSE-PKU Double Degree websites.
Beijing in the Year of the Olympics! 50 students from a dozen different countries applied for IDEAS-based courses in International Relations at the LSE-Peking University Summer School in July 2008. Courses were taught by Professors Cox and Westad of the LSE and by Professor Wang Jisi of Peking University. Details.
Professor Chen Jian Announced as Philippe Roman Chair for 2008-09 LSE is proud to announce that Professor Chen Jian will take up the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the LSE IDEAS for 2008-09. Details.