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Throwback to the event "US-Iran relations under #Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges" featuring Dr Dana H Allin, Dr @amr73.bsky.social, Dr Sanam Vakil, and Professor Peter Trubowitz.

🎧 Watch here: bit.ly/49aFB5E

✍️ Read the event report: bit.ly/4patjz1

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US-Iran relations under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges – student event report - LSE Department of International Relations
Report by a student on a public event from the Department of International Relations at LSE.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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📣Join us for our next public event on 19 November, featuring Professor Ronald R Krebs, Dr @drkmillar.bsky.social, Dr @lucatardelli.bsky.social, Dr @boramlee.bsky.social, and Dr @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social.

🔗 Find out more & register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-t...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Big thanks to The Beaver, our student Shreya Gupta, and my colleague Toby Dodge for sharing their thoughts about what makes studying IR at the LSE so unique. @lseir.bsky.social

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The Beaver
- The Beaver is LSE's award-winning student newspaper. We provide news, analysis, and commentary on issues at LSE and beyond.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My article about state resistance to transnational #disinformation is out now in
@ejir.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Taking #Taiwan's resistance to #China's disinformation as its empirical focus, the article offers 4 contributions to #InternationalRelations:
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November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Please join us this evening for an LSE guest lecture from Iver Neumann, with Federica Bicchi and Jennifer Jackson-Preece, on 'The Changing Geopolitics of Northern Europe'. Covering the Arctic, the Nordics, and the Baltics. Free to all. No registration necessary www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
The changing geopolitics of Northern Europe
6.30pm Thurs 30 Oct | Iver B Neumann, Federica Bicchi, Jennifer Jackson-Preece | Free public event at LSE
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October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Join us today for the event: "From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality," featuring Dr Kerry Goettlich, Professor @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Dr Joanne Yao, Professor Edward Keene, and Dr @mjbayly.bsky.social.

🔗Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The @h-diplo.bsky.social published a roundtable on Professor Fawaz Gerges' book What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East.

🔗Read the review: issforum.org/roundtables/...
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-8 on Gerges, What Really Went Wrong
Roundtable Review 17-8 Fawaz A. Gerges, What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East. Yale University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780300259575. 10 October 2025 | PDF…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Please join us for this panel tomorrow with excellent colleagues.

"Seeing beyond the core: alternative visions of order in times of global crisis"

All welcome: 22 Oct 6.30pm, at LSE
@iliasalami.bsky.social @giuliasciorati.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social
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Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis
6.30pm Weds 22 Oct | Ilias Alami, Lina Benabdallah, Jasmine Gani, Jenna Marshall | Free public event at LSE
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October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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amr73.bsky.social
🎙️ Delighted to be speaking tonight at the @LSEIRDept public event “US–Iran under Trump 2.0: Prospects & Challenges.”
6:30–8:00 PM (BST) | Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Join us in person or online to explore key developments in US–Iran relations.
🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/events/us-ir...
lseir.bsky.social LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · Oct 10
📣 Five days to go until our next event:
“US-Iran Relations under #Trump 2.0: Prospects and Challenges”

🗓️ Wednesday, 15 October 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 In-person and online

🔗 Register today: www.lse.ac.uk/events/us-ir...
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US-Iran under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges
6.30pm Weds 15 Oct | Dana H Allin, Anahita Motazed Rad, Sanam Vakil | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).

📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social

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CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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You can now watch the recording of our 25 Years Beyond 1325 event last week! 🍿

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGTu...

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October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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📣 Five days to go until our next event:
“US-Iran Relations under #Trump 2.0: Prospects and Challenges”

🗓️ Wednesday, 15 October 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 In-person and online

🔗 Register today: www.lse.ac.uk/events/us-ir...
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US-Iran under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges
6.30pm Weds 15 Oct | Dana H Allin, Anahita Motazed Rad, Sanam Vakil | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Join us for an event: "Unlearning Empire: education and the legacies of the British Commonwealth," featuring Dr Obaapanin Oforiwaa Adu, Professor Patricia Daley, Muhammad Ibrahim Alom, and Dr Asha Herten-Crabb.

Find out more & register: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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First event of the year with @lseir.bsky.social 💙

25 Years Beyond 1325: Reimagining the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda

With: @drkmillar.bsky.social , @aikoiiris.bsky.social, @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, Dr Nancy Annan and Prof Stéfanie Von Hlatky
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Our PhD candidate @terrymullan.bsky.social explores how #climate shocks have repeatedly tested world orders and what that means for today’s world order in his latest article for the Lowy Institute.

🔗 Read the full article to learn more: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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History’s warning: Climate chaos can expose the fragility of world order
Past empires fell when environmental stress met political weakness – today’s global warming poses an unprecedented test of resilience.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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One week to go until this one with @lseir.bsky.social 💙🤍

Get your free ticket now!

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lsegender.bsky.social lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Aug 26
Join us for our first event of the academic year in collaboration with @lseir.bsky.social and other great co-hosts!

Bringing together four leading experts, we will explore the legacy and future of the UN WPS agenda.

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

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September 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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At his second speech at the #UN,#DonaldTrump attacked the host institution & his European allies.

Michael Cox @lseideas.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social analyses the speech in the context of the polarisation of US politics & the US, Russia & China's undermining of the UN @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
Trump and the United Nations crisis | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Donal Trump's second speech at the United Nations should be read in the context of polarization of US politics and the undermining of the UN by the great powers.
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September 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next, writes Terrence Mullan of @lseir.bsky.social

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The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next | USAPP
The US is undermining the very order it built, and the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit shows how China is seizing the moment.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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📄 Dr Patrick Gill-Tiney spoke with @theipaper.com for the article “Starmer, Meloni or even Putin – who is the real #Trump whisperer?”

Read the full article to learn more about his analysis: inews.co.uk/news/world/s...
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Starmer, Meloni or even Putin - who is the real Trump whisperer?
Some world leaders have worked out how to charm the notoriously fickle US President
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September 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We’re thrilled to welcome all our new and returning students! 👏

Today we kicked off the year with our IR Welcome Address, featuring insights from our Head of Department, Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth, alongside Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, Dr Anna Getmansky, and Dr John Minnich.

#LSE #LSEIR
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Donald Trump’s “Department of War” name change is mostly political theatre writes Jonny Hall of @lseir.bsky.social

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Donald Trump’s “Department of War” name change is mostly political theatre | USAPP
While the implications of the policy remain to be seen, the renaming is symbolic of the continued reduction of America’s soft power capabilities.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🚨 Please note that the timing for our upcoming event with @lseir.bsky.social has now changed to 5.30-7pm 🚨

See you there! 👋🏻
lsegender.bsky.social lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Aug 26
Join us for our first event of the academic year in collaboration with @lseir.bsky.social and other great co-hosts!

Bringing together four leading experts, we will explore the legacy and future of the UN WPS agenda.

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@aikoiiris.bsky.social @drkmillar.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
lseir.bsky.social
🗞 In his new article, our PhD candidate Kazimier Lim explores how the resumption of direct flights between #India and #China signals shifting regional priorities.

🔗 Read the full article via the Lowy Institute to learn more: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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What resuming direct India-China flights reveals about changing regional priorities
A reconnection that might make managing a fraught relationship just that bit easier.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🚨 Our PhD Candidate Sara Wong has recently published an article titled “Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal” in @risjnl.bsky.social.

➡️ Read the full paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal
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September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Professor Fawaz Gerges joined BBC Radio Scotland to discuss the situation in #Afghanistan following the recent earthquake.

🎧 Listen to the full interview here: bit.ly/4m3riTl

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September 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM