Summer 2009 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf Podcast
1) Barack Obama and the World: Saviour or Lame Duck
Contributor(s): Professor Mick Cox | November 4th 2008 marked one of the great political moments in American history when the first black man was elected to the White House. Immensely charismatic and ...Show More
2) The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession
Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Gamble | Professor Andrew Gamble made his early reputation writing on British decline, the theory of Marxism and the rise and fall of that long-debated and most contro...Show More
The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession
1:11:52 | Jul 30th, 2009
3) In Search of Islam's Civilization
Contributor(s): Ali A. Allawi | The increasing religiosity of Muslim societies and the spectacular rise of political Islam have served to mask the seeping of vitality from Islamic civilization. If Mus...Show More
4) The Idea of Justice
Contributor(s): Professor Amartya Sen | Amartya Sen explores the ways in which, and the degree to which, justice is a matter of reason, and of different kinds of reason. This event marks the launch of...Show More
5) Human Security in an Age of Turbulence
Contributor(s): Mary Kaldor | Mary Kaldor is a prolific author who has written widely on a range of key issues over the years ranging from the 'Baroque Arsenal' (1982) a study that challenged the logi...Show More
6) Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis
Contributor(s): Dr André Broome, Professor Herman Schwartz, Professor Leonard Seabrooke, Professor Mat Watson | Residential property is the single largest asset in people's everyday lives and its asso...Show More
7) The Museum of the 21st Century
Contributor(s): Neil MacGregor, Nicholas Serota | In this 60th anniversary year of publishers Thames & Hudson, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, and Nicholas Serota, director of Tate, wi...Show More
8) LSE Director's Dialogue with Stephen Green
Contributor(s): Howard Davies, Stephen Green | As the world's financial order is in a state of flux, how do we align our desire to improve material human wealth, and capitalism, with our spiritual and...Show More
9) The Post-American World and the Rise of the Rest
Contributor(s): Fareed Zakaria | In this lecture, Fareed Zakaria will expound on the The Post-American World; a world in which the United States no longer dominates the global economy, orchestrates ge...Show More
10) Is America in Decline?
Contributor(s): Walter Russell Mead | The rise of China and the global economic crisis have led many observers to speculate about whether the decline of American power, often predicted in the past, ha...Show More
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