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The Conversation with Diplomacy project, headed by Professor Michael Kerr, is part of King’s College’s Centre for the Study of Divided Societies (CSDS), supported by the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies (MEMS) programme. Conversation with Diplomacy focuses on key areas of international concern through an extended series of engagements with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and foreign diplomats. The project aims to bring [...]

What drives China’s impressive growth and will it continue? Parsing the evidence leads to some surprising conclusions and also points to needed reforms to sustain development in the coming decades. Linda Yueh is director of the China Growth Centre and fellow in economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She is also adjunct professor [...]

The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, will discuss special legal powers designed to tackle domestic and international terrorism and whether they are necessary at the University of Essex School of Law Clifford Chance Lecture this week. Speaking at the offices of Clifford Chance at Canary Wharf on Weds 13 February, David Anderson [...]

Lecture Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons and Chief Executive, will give an insight into the workings of the Commons in the forthcoming Open Lecture on 19 October 2012. Robert, who has worked in the House for more than thirty five years, will talk about the work of the Commons, both in the [...]

Aggrey Tisa Sabuni, Economic Advisor to the President, will discuss the successes and challenges of building core Government institutions in South Sudan. Mr. Sabuni will discuss the role of the international community in this process, and identify where the development of these institutions has succeeded and where there is still more work to be done. [...]

Guyana‘s Amerindians make up about 11% of the country’s population. But what does their future look like? Amerindian experiences of land and self-determination vary from the WaiWai who are now the country’s biggest landowners to the Akawaio communities whose land claim filed 14 years ago is still to be decided. This presentation by international lawyer, [...]

You are cordially invited to a lecture by Dr. Duncan Kelly, Senior Lecture Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Abstract: ‘Conventional accounts of freedom, and predominantly liberal debates about the concept of freedom, continue to maintain a distinction between negative, positive, or republican accounts of what it means to both be at [...]

About the speaker: Dr Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University London. She was formerly Director of Research at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) from 2005 to 2008, a post she assumed after serving as head of their Middle [...]

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence invites you to the next Seminar: by Dr. Waltraud Schelkle (LSE, European Institute) Waltraud Schelkle is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the European Institute and has been at LSE since autumn 2001, teaching courses on the political economy of European integration at MSc and PhD level. She is [...]

10th Annual Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law lecture The International Bar Association was established in 1947 is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. Its expertise provides assistance to the global legal community. Previously, Dr Ellis served as Executive Director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, a project of [...]