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62. Making Sense of Technological Spheres of Influence
- Author:
- Valentin Weber
- Publication Date:
- 04-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- The deterioration of Sino-American relations and the rise of novel forms of statecraft have given way to a worrying new feature of the international system: technological spheres of influence. In this Strategic Update, Valentin Weber explains how we have arrived at this novel geopolitical arrangement, where in the world the greatest contestation lies, and what the future of technospheres may hold.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Bilateral Relations, and International System
- Political Geography:
- China and United States of America
63. High Hopes, Long Odds: On the False Promises of Brexiteer Deals with the EU and US
- Author:
- John Ryan, Gabriel Felbermayr, Clemens Fuest, Jasmin Katrin Gröschl, and Daniel Stöhlker
- Publication Date:
- 12-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report explores a No-Deal Brexit which would leave the UK economically, politically and diplomatically weakened and isolated. It further examines the relationships with its two main allies - the European Union and the United States - which would become more difficult and complicated.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, Politics, Treaties and Agreements, European Union, and Brexit
- Political Geography:
- Britain, Europe, and United States of America
64. Five years after Maidan: Toward a Greater Eurasia?
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 05-2019
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report, building on a workshop held at LSE IDEAS in December 2018 and supported by the Horizon 2020 UPTAKE and Global Challenges Research Fund COMPASS projects, brings together some of the UK’s foremost scholars on Russia, the EU and the post-Soviet space to evaluate the challenges and opportunities facing Russia’s 'Greater Eurasia’ foreign policy concept.
- Topic:
- International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
65. Ireland-UK Relations and Northern Ireland after Brexit
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report explores the impact of Brexit from an Irish perspective, explaining Europe’s role in improving Ireland-UK relations since 1970s and outlining the threat posed by Brexit to the political settlement in Northern Ireland. In April 2019, LSE IDEAS produced a second edition of this report, containing a new contribution from Michael Burleigh, important updates from Paul Gillespie and Adrian Guelke, and a refreshed introduction from Michael Cox.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy, International Affairs, and Brexit
- Political Geography:
- Ireland and Global Focus
66. China in the 2020s: a more difficult decade?
- Author:
- George Magnus
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- The conventional narrative is that China is, or will, by 2030, be the largest economy in the world. Based on commonly held expectations historically about prewar Germany, the USSR and Japan, greater humility would not go amiss. It is not preordained that past economic trends will continue, especially in view of a much compromised outlook for both China and the rest of the world in the 2020s
- Topic:
- International Political Economy and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- China and Global Focus
67. Refining Britain's Economic Diplomacy
- Author:
- Linda Yueh
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- The EU referendum has thrown up many questions around globalisation as well as how to reposition Britain in the world after Brexit. The UK government’s professed intent to leave the European Union and negotiate its own free trade agreements means that Britain would be setting its own trade policies for the first time since 1973, and would need to explicitly set out the aims of British trade and associated foreign investment policies for the first time in four decades. With this in mind, clearly defining the UK’s economic diplomacy is crucial. Current global and domestic conditions are politically challenging. However, this offers an opportunity for the UK to take a lead in setting a helpful direction for the rest of the world, and ensuring that trade and investment policies benefit all in society.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
68. From Deng to Xi: Economic Reform, the Silk Road, and the Return of the Middle Kingdom
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 01-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This LSE IDEAS Special Report - with senior contributors from politics, journalism, and academia - looks at the internal causes and consequences of the return of the 'Middle Kingdom'. It explores the extent to which Deng's momentous economic reforms in 1978 have shaped modern China, what the country's expanded international role under Xi means, and who really makes Chinese foreign policy.
- Topic:
- International Affairs and Global Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- China
69. The Crisis of Global Politics: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy
- Author:
- Josefin Graef, Scott Hamilton, Benjamin Martill, Elke Schwarz, and Uta Staiger
- Publication Date:
- 08-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- Can the work of the great European philosophers help solve Europe's problems today? This report explores what we can learn from Heidegger, Arendt, and Anders about how to tackle populism, climate change, and technological change
- Topic:
- Political Theory and Global Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
70. The Future of the European Central Bank
- Author:
- John Ryan
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report explores the need to make the ECB more transparent and democratically accountable to prevent the next Eurozone crisis. The ECB can justly claim to have held together a poorly-designed system in difficult circumstances, but its overlapping roles create potential conflicts of interest. What does this mean for the countries, companies, and banks that have grown to depend so much on the ECB?
- Topic:
- International Political Economy and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Europe
71. Ireland-UK Relations and Northern Ireland after Brexit
- Author:
- Micheal Cox, Adrian Guelke, and Paul Gillespie
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report explores the impact of Brexit from an Irish perspective, explaining Europe’s role in improving Ireland-UK relations since 1970s and outlining the threat posed by Brexit to the political settlement in Northern Ireland
- Topic:
- International Affairs and Brexit
- Political Geography:
- Ireland
72. Making the 'Special Relationship' Great Again?
- Author:
- Tim Oliver and Michael Williams
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- Even before Donald Trump won the US presidential election he left an indelible mark on US politics and on views of the US in Britain and around the world. his victory means those views will now have to be turned into policy towards a president many in Britain feel uneasy about. Current attitudes to Trump can be as contradictory and fast changing as the president-elect’s own political positions. They can be a mix of selective praise and horror. he has in the past been criticised by British political leaders from the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to the Mayor of london Sadiq khan. In early 2016 a petition of over half a million signatures led Parliament to debate (and reject) banning Trump from entering the Uk. Yet he has also drawn the support of politicians such as UKIP leader Nigel Farage, and polling showed support amongst the British public for his 2015 proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US. After the presidential election British ministers were quick to extend an olive branch. Johnson himself refused to attend a hastily convened EU meeting to discuss Trump’s election. Instead he called on the rest of the EU to end its collective ‘whinge-o-rama’.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Political stability, Post Truth Politics, and Populism
- Political Geography:
- Britain and America
73. The UK's Foreign, Defence, and Security Policy After Brexit
- Author:
- Hugh Sandeman
- Publication Date:
- 11-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- In November 2017 the Global Strategies Project at LSE IDEAS brought together a group of British politicians, senior officials, and other experts at Ditchley Park to discuss options for the UK’s foreign, defence, and security policy after Brexit. This report summarieses that discussion, which covered the UK’s future relations with Europe, the US, and China, as well as the relationship between policymakers and the British public.
- Topic:
- International Security
- Political Geography:
- Europe
74. Enhancing Decision Making in Foreign and Security Policy
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 02-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- In late 2016 thirty British politicians, officials and former officials, officers, and experts met to discuss ways in which the UK foreign policmaking leaves the country vulnerable to strategic errors.
- Topic:
- Security and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
75. Hybrid Warfare in the Middle East
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 02-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- This report considers the hybrid warfare techniques of Daesh, Al Qaeda, the Taleban, and Iran, and makes specific suggestions on how the UK and other Western countries can better counter this threat. The report is sistilled from discussions with senior British officials, academics, and current practitioners in the media, strategic communications, and cyber security
- Topic:
- Security and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Middle East
76. New Challenges, New Voices: Next Generation Viewpoints on Transatlantic Relations
- Author:
- LSE Ideas
- Publication Date:
- 02-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- The future of the transatlantic relationship is rarely out of the headlines in Europe or North America. Despite the closeness, the relationship faces – as it has always done – new and familiar challenges.
- Topic:
- International Relations
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
77. Making the ‘Special Relationship’ Great Again?
- Author:
- Tim Oliver and Micheal Williams
- Publication Date:
- 09-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- Donald Trump’s election poses uncomfortable questions for Britain about the future of the UK-US ‘Special Relationship’.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
78. The Greek Euro Tragedy
- Author:
- John Ryan
- Publication Date:
- 11-2016
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- On 4 February 2015, the European Central Bank (ECB) unexpectedly and suddenly cancelled acceptance of Greek bonds as collateral for liquidity funding unless Greece obeyed the Troika agreement. The ECB’s irresponsible and incompetent actions call into question their respect for the Greek government’s attempts to resolve its debt crisis in a sustainable way. The ECB may or may not have good reasons to cut off Greece, depending on your point of view, but it is clear that such a move would be political. A central bank that is supposed to be the lender of last resort and guardian of financial stability would be taking a deliberate and calculated decision to undermine the Greek banking system. The ECB is now seen in some quarters as arrogant, unaccountable and authoritarian.1 This Strategic Update discusses the most recent problems for the Eurozone, namely the Greek crisis and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) lack of democratic accountability which has contributed to considerable difficulties for the stability of the Eurozone.
- Topic:
- International Trade and Finance and Financial Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Greece
79. ASEAN: In or Out? No Way…Not yet?
- Author:
- Tan Sri Munir Majid
- Publication Date:
- 10-2016
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- While the close British decision to get out of the European Union was made in a referendum a while ago on 23 June, there is still the feeling in the UK: What have we done? Where do we go? How do we get there? Questions that should have been asked at the referendum, rather than after it. But there you are. When raw emotion and shallow argument reign, profound decisions are made without proper reflection or preparation. Since then the question has also been raised whether or not such a thing could occur in ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It won’t but then again it may. First of all, let’s be clear. It is not likely there will ever be such a surplus of democracy in ASEAN, whether among individual member states or as a group, that there could be an ‘In or Out’ referendum like the one which resulted in Brexit.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, International Affairs, Global Markets, and Global Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- Southeast Asia
80. Brexit: What Happens Next?
- Author:
- Tim Oliver
- Publication Date:
- 06-2016
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- LSE IDEAS
- Abstract:
- A British withdrawal from the EU would be a process not an event. This Strategic Update sets out the nine overlapping series of negotiations that would be triggered and the positions the 27 remaining EU countries and the EU’s institutions would take, gathered from a network of researchers across the continent.
- Topic:
- Brexit
- Political Geography:
- Britain and European Union