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Foreign policy think tank at LSE, focusing on international affairs and global governance through research, events and policy dialogue.
Joined September 2009
We're the best university affiliated think tank in the world! 🥳 @TTCSP @LSEnews #ThinkTanksMatter2020.
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It is with the greatest sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the death of our Director, Professor Christopher Coker. See the full announcement here: Share your thoughts and memories on our dedicated page:
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Applications are open for our Executive MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy programme. You will acquire the analytical tools to understand a changing world and the policy expertise to operate within it.
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Back in 2012, @anneapplebaum analysed how Putin's understanding of Russia's history, his training as a KGB officer and his personal experience of life in the Soviet Union impact Russian political life. It is still starkly relevant⬇️#Putin #Russia.
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We are now live with @Tsihanouskaya, @eglod, @MarkHertling and @LeonHartwell who are discussing the links between the fight for freedom in Ukraine and Belarus. #LSERussiaUkraine. Join the event here:.
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How does one negotiate the end of a war? This Tuesday, join us for a conversation about the diplomatic efforts in Ukraine.🇺🇦. Speakers: .@AVindman 🇺🇸.@Lithuanian_MoD's @AbukeviciusM 🇱🇹.@LeonHartwell. 🗓️ Tuesday 26 April 3-4 pm BST. Register🔗.
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Back in 2012, @anneapplebaum wrote 'Putinism: The Ideology' for @lseideas where she analysed the sophisticated institutional and ideological underpinnings of Putinism. Have a read of her thoughts back then: #Putin #Russia
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🗣️@maria_avdv: "The Ukrainian officials released information that the grain expropriated from the occupied areas has been moved by tracks to Crimea - Russia is now using hunger for coercion, like they did in the 1930s.".
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Join us for a conversation about the diplomatic efforts towards ending Russia's war in Ukraine.🇺🇦. Speakers: @AVindman 🇺🇸, @Lithuanian_MoD's @AbukeviciusM 🇱🇹 and @LeonHartwell. 🗓️ Tuesday 26 April 3-4 pm BST. #LSERussiaUkraine. Register🔗.
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Join next week's #LSERussiaUkraine dialogues event with @Tsihanouskaya, @MarkHertling and @eglod_katia as they discuss linking Belarus and Ukraine's struggle for freedom, Alyaksandr Lukashenka military support for Russia and more. @LeonHartwell . ℹ️ ⬇️.
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Tomorrow: @olgatokariuk, @mariahtthornton, @georgemagnus1 and @LeonHartwell discuss Xi Jinping's dilemma: what will be the impact of the #RussiaUkraineWar on #Russia-#China relations? . Sign up here 🔗.
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Live footage of us realising we have hit 40,000 followers 🥳 What a great way to start the week!. If you're new here, welcome! 👋 We are LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank at @LSEnews. We've had a busy start to 2021. Here's a short thread of the highlights so far 🧵👇
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Catch up on a talk with @olgatokariuk, @mariahtthornton, @georgemagnus1 and @LeonHartwell:. Xi Jinping's dilemma: what will be the impact of the #RussiaUkraineWar 🇷🇺🇺🇦on #Russia-#China 🇷🇺🇨🇳relations? . Video now available here:.
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Join @LSE_GEGC for a discussion between @PMehrling @michaelxpettis @adam_tooze and @lindayueh on the past, present and future of the dollar. Find out more and register here.⬇️.
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"Few short books have had such a big impact as John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace." …and a new centenary edition has just been published with an introduction from @lseideas Director Michael Cox. Read his essay in @LSEReviewBooks:
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We are delighted to announce that we have retained our position as the second best university affiliated think tank in the world in the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index: @TTCSP #thinktanksmatter.
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We are now live for today's #LSERussiaUkraine dialogues event focusing on how the war may end. Join @donaldnjensen (@USIP), @kvolker (@cepa), @nataliabugayova (@TheStudyofWar) and @LeonHartwell on our Facebook live stream. ⬇️.
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Watch Ruben Andersson, @KaldorM, @SaskiaSassen and @BURDETTR discuss the recently published book Cities at War and how urban environments are sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity.
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Our new project unlocking archives of the Cold War. Explore new declassified documents now:
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Did you know we have recordings of all our #LSERussiaUkraine dialogues events. Chaired by @LeonHartwell they feature speakers such as @alenapopova, @Siderop, @Tsihanouskaya, @MarkHertling, @olgatokariuk and more. Find them here:.
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We are LSE’s foreign policy think tank, & today is our 10th birthday. 🎂 .Thanks to all our followers for your support throughout the years.
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We've just published a collection of essays on strategic autonomy and the future of Europe, with contributions from @andrewcottey, @RCsernatoni, @JeroenDobber, @DanielFiott, @PayamGhalehdar, Gerlinde Groitl and Benjamin Martill. Read them 👇.@FNFreiheit.
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Explore our archive of declassified & translated Cold War documents including by Stalin, Churchill, Molotov, & Bevin
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Donald Trump thinks he's a strong leader. But that's an illusion. @washingtonpost opinion by Archie Brown:
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Episode 3 of the LSE Cold War Podcast is coming out tomorrow! @JRBM_IRTheory will be talking to @RohamAlvandiLSE about the Shah of Iran. 🔗:
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As Putin's approval rating rises to 87%, understand Putinism: The Ideology. By @anneapplebaum
http://t.co/zOTqJsKoko
http://t.co/U4BEflEAJP.
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On this week's episode of the LSE Cold War Podcast, @DrRadchenko and @JRBM_IRTheory discuss the often tumultuous relationship between the two major superpowers of the communist world during the Cold War: The People's Republic of China and the USSR. 🔗:
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LSE IDEAS Rises to Second in World University Think Tank Rankings. Read about our result in the 2017 @TTCSP Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released today: #thinktanksmatter.
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☮️ Peace Activism in the UK during the Cold War ☮️. We've just launched an online resource for exploring the British peace movement during the Cold War. This was developed in collaboration with @OpenUniversity, with support from @LSELibrary. 🔗: [1/4]
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Read @DahrendorfForum’s concluding compendium, ‘Ralf Dahrendorf and the European Union 2030: Looking Back, Looking Forward’
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We are looking forward to welcoming Margaret MacMillan next month as Engelsberg Chair in History and International Affairs, with funding from the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. She will deliver lectures on 'Alliances in war'. Find out more 👇.
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What has happened in Ukraine over the past year? What are Ukraine's needs? And what may happen in 2023? #LSERussiaUkraine. If you missed our recent event with @Mariia_Zolkina, @olgatokariuk, Andrii Ziuz and others watch it now:.
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Christopher Coker, @general_ben, Guy Monson, Susan Scholefield & @LeonHartwell will provide a status update on the #Russia-#Ukraine war TODAY at 3pm GMT. For information and to register, visit: @LSEpublicevents @LSEnews @LSEIRDept @CEPA @sarasinpartners.
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Minouche Shafik x @vonderleyen at @LSEnews. If you can’t attend ‘Old Friends, New Beginnings: building another future for the EU-UK partnership’ this morning, you can tune into the livestream which starts at 11:15am GMT ➡️ #LSEEurope
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.@LuisHerrera507, Markelda Montenegro, Chris Alden, @alvaroimendez and @VTorresLista explore Panama 🇵🇦-🇨🇳 China relations in their latest book. Access it for free 👇.
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"The rise of China and India, and the America First policies of Donald Trump’s US, makes it more important than ever that European countries defend their interests collectively." - @gideonrachman
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What did Churchill & Stalin discuss in private? Explore our archive of declassified & translated Cold War documents including by Stalin, Churchill, Molotov, & Bevin
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"Surveying the history of IDEAS, it is not unreasonable to suggest that its work actually began not in 2008, but in 2004, when Michael Cox and Arne Westad together founded the LSE Cold War Studies Centre.". And here they both are in 2020 celebrating Arne's birthday!
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Read now: After the Drug Wars by LSE Expert Group on Economics of Drug Policy #LSEdrugpolicy
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How do revolutions begin, unfold and end? Join @LSEIRDept and @lseideas for our free and public event 'Anatomies of Revolution' on Tuesday 22 October. More info: @stephenWalt @GeorgeLawsonIR @LSE_CCS @QMPoliticsIR.
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Understand one of the world's most exclusive meetings. Read our Strategic Update 'The Chinese Communist Party Congress: An Essential Guide'
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IDEAS is honoured to co-host event at LSE with 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos:
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Need plans for Tuesday 22 October? Join us at 'Anatomies of Revolution', a free public event where Kimberly Hutchings, Mary Kaldor, George Lawson & Stephen Walt will discuss how revolutions begin, unfold and end. Co-hosted with @LSEIRDept. More info:
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Today on #PakistanIndependenceDay 🇵🇰 we are announcing the Jinnah Postdoctoral Fellowship which will be hosted at LSE IDEAS. Find out more 👇.
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🚨 TODAY! #LSEInternationalOrder. In this event @rohan_mukh will discuss his latest paper "The New Westphalians: China, India, and the Norm of Sovereignty". with Rosemary Foot (@UniofOxford). Register now:.
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There is a claim that war is a pathology, and that if we were to sober up we could recognise this and abolish it. Join us for a talk from Christopher Coker about the topic of his latest book, Why War?.
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We've just published a new Strategic Update 📖 written by @georgemagnus1, investigating what is meant when China’s leadership speaks of globalisation, and what that means for the rest of the world 🇨🇳. Read it here:
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From One Cold War to Another? Podcast of #LSELitFest conversation with @anneapplebaum @gideonrachman @JonathanFenby
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Read @JCollinsIDPP interview with @DanielValeroR in @ELTIEMPO on a Post-Conflict #DrugPolicy for Colombia
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Want to explore peace activism in the UK during the Cold War? Check out our resource which features newly digitised @CNDuk documents from @LSELibrary:
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Lectures by some of the world's biggest names in history & int'l affairs. Listen to Philippe Roman Chair podcasts:
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What should we make of the growing geopolitical interplay between Turkey, Israel, the UAE and the Balkans?. Hear what @DimitarBechev, @tenaprelec and @v_vuksanovic had to say at our event: @ForumRatiu.
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Idealist or Cynic? Cold War History Journal reviews two new books on Kissinger by @nfergus & @GregGrandin. Read now:
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Registration is open for two of our upcoming #LSECOVID19 events!. 📉 COVID-19 Economic Response: a comparative, cross-border perspective.🗣️ Reuben Abraham, Ailish Campbell, Rain Newton-Smith, Kazumi Nishikawa & Lutfey Siddiqi.🗓️ 29 May, 2-3.30pm.🔴 Zoom.ℹ️
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🇪🇺💶🎧 New podcast alert! 'Rethinking the governance of the EU and the euro: Hard-earned lessons', with @gpapak and @pdemetriades at a @DahrendorfForum/@LSEEI event in December. Listen via our website:
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Nations and Nationalism (@n_nationalism) is our journal in partnership with @asenevents. It focuses on the revival of ethnic and national identification and, at the same time, the proliferation of nationalist and ethnic conflicts across the world.
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Since deciding to host a “Taiwanese Representative Office”, Lithuania’s 🇱🇹 relationship with China 🇨🇳 swiftly deteriorated. @vikingbohman, @Shilinabolan, @mariahtthornton & @grzestec consider the broader implications for Europe’s relationship with China
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We're pleased to announce winner of the 2018 Saki Ruth Dockrill Prize is @Cindy_Ewing for her paper 'With a Minimum of Bitterness': Arab-Asian Solidarity and the Making of Global Rights at the United Nations, which will now be published in @coldwarhistoryj. Congratulations Cindy.
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Why do we need the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission? Hear from @LindaYueh who is chairing the Commission @LSEnews
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Register for our next #LSERussiaUkraine dialogues event on Tuesday with @ivanastradner (@FDD), Jennifer A. Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat), @JuliaDavisNews (@thedailybeast) and @LeonHartwell. Find out more:.
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Patron-client relations, rule of law weakness, state capture: how different are these concepts, and in which way do they play out across European countries?. Hear from @AndreaCapussela, @LizDavidBarrett, @d_pavlovic & @tenaprelec on Friday at 4pm BST
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📣 Increasing strategic competition is dividing world politics. Does the liberal order have a future in a dividing world? . Join this event with @g_ikenberry, @rohan_mukh, @londonvinjamuri, Ayse Zakarol and Michael Cox. 📷. More info and register:.
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The digital domain is now an increasingly significant geopolitical battleground. @KajaCiglic from Microsoft will discuss the roles of norms in regulating cyberspace at our webinar on 10 February
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The Great Economists: how their ideas can help us today. @lseideas public lecture by @lindayueh. 9th April 6.30pm at LSE. Free & open to all.
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Margaret MacMillan: European history is one of war & struggle - could have been used more in campaign #LSEDahrendorf
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We are delighted to announce @seemashafiq71 as our 2022 Jinnah Postdoctoral Fellow. Find out more about her appointment:
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Did you miss last week's event with @DimitarBechev, @tenaprelec and @v_vuksanovic where they discussed the growing geopolitical interplay between Turkey, Israel, the UAE and the Balkans? . Catch up here 👇.@ForumRatiu.
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How can we understand populist anger? Read our recent Strategic Update by Michael Cox exploring the wider causes of global populism:
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With a statue of John Maynard Keynes looking on, Michael Cox, Director of LSE IDEAS, opens the centenary conference on the 1919 publication of 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace'. The conference took place at King’s College, Cambridge on 9-10 September 2019 .@CambridgeINET
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.@AodhanORiordain "When it comes to drugs, we like to victim blame. what are sick people doing in a courtroom if they need medical help?".
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🚨 The deadline for applications for the Stonex PhD Scholarship hosted by @lseideas & @LSEIRDept is on 14 January!. Proposed PhD topics may cover any aspect of:.▪️ China Foreign Policy and Security.▪️ Digital Diplomacy. For more info and to apply:
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What does the Chinese response to the coronavirus mean for the economy, development, and Xi Jinping himself? @georgemagnus1 explores this in our latest Strategic Update: #COVID19 #Coronavirus.
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Ahead of the publication of a new centenary edition of John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace, the editor Professor Michael Cox discusses the making and impact of this influential book…
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We're welcoming @HelenClarkNZ and @HelenaPuigL to our #LSECOVID19 event on Wednesday 24 June to explore the consequences of the pandemic for countries affected by conflict and fragility. Mark your calendars and join us! 🗓️ . ℹ️:
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Two of our team graduated today from @LSEnews. Congratulations Julia and Margherita! #LSEGraduation
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LSE IDEAS Retains Ranking as World's 3rd Best University Think Tank. Read the press release:
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"The world we thought we were living in is no longer the world that we're living in. The world that we thought would be 'smoothed over' by globalisation & liberal markets is clearly under challenge by populism on right & left" - IDEAS Director Michael Cox at #UNatLSE last night.
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We are pleased to launch our new website. Listen to podcasts, read reports, & explore LSE IDEAS on our new look site
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Join @ChathamHouse and @lseideas tomorrow as we ask if there has been a fundamental change to the liberal order. If so, what might explain this shift? . Speakers 🗣️ @CooleyOnEurasia.@RebeccaLissner. @dhnexon and @londonvinjamuri. Registration 🔗
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New @lseideas event: Join us for 'The Cold War: a world history' - Arne Westad & Michael Cox discuss the truly global nature of the Cold War, with East & West demanding absolute allegiance around the world. Jan 9th, 6.30pm @LSEpublicevents
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Join @DimitarBechev, @tenaprelec, @v_vuksanovic and @MPalmerHistory for our #2020Visions event co-hosted with @ForumRatiu on Friday afternoon.
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🚨 Out now! @TanyaHarmer discusses the Cuban and Chilean Revolutions during the Cold War with @JRBM_IRTheory. Listen here 👉
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Tune in to 'Knowledge Production in the Global South: launching the (Silent) Voices: Bukavu Expo' now 👇.#BukavuSeries
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🚨 Registration is now open for our event next Friday!. Join @DimitarBechev, @tenaprelec, @v_vuksanovic and @MPalmerHistory for this #2020Visions event co-hosted with @ForumRatiu. ⏰ 4-5.30pm, Friday 2 October.🔗
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🇺🇦 Our #LSERussiaUkraine dialogue event discussing Russia's domestic fragility begins in 1 hour with @Natalia_Budaeva (@4freerussia_org), @JBugajskiUSA (@JamestownTweets), @khodorkovsky_en and @LeonHartwell. 🎟 You still have time to register:.
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What does strategic autonomy actually mean, and what are its implications for Europe? Read our report with contributions from @andrewcottey, @RCsernatoni, @JeroenDobber, @DanielFiott, @PayamGhalehdar, Gerlinde Groitl & Benjamin Martill @FNFreiheit.
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The Great Economists: how their ideas can help us today. @lseideas public lecture by @lindayueh. 9th April 6.30pm at LSE. Free & open to all.
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