Contributor(s): Dr John Collins, Professor Danny Quah, Professor Fransisco Thoumi, Professor Peter Reuter, Javier Sagredo, H.E. Ambassador Néstor Osorio Londoño, Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown, Dr Ethan Nadelmann, Dr Catalina Pérez Correa González, Dr Joanne Csete | The War on Drugs is over. What comes next? Experts from around the world gathered at LSE IDEAS for this International Drug Policy Project policy planning workshop on building a new 'drugs peace'. The workshop was held to mark the launch of th...
Apr 19, 2016•6 min
Contributor(s): Matthew Connelly | In the wake of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, it would seem that the US state is obsessed with surveillance and secrecy. But has this always been the case? Professor Matthew Connelly, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS, explains how the twentieth century transformed the radical transparency of the American Republic into a culture of state secrecy and a threat to open government.
Jun 02, 2015•6 min
Contributor(s): Delegates at the US Foreign Policy Conference | In September 2014, leading thinkers descended on the LSE for the US Foreign Policy Conference, co-hosted by LSE IDEAS and the LSE International Relations Department. A key theme was whether shifts in economic power are eroding American hegemony; but the story of how power shifts turns out to be more complex than the rise and decline narrative of many contemporary pundits. In this video, speakers from the Conference share their persp...
Jan 16, 2015•7 min
Contributor(s): Dr Tanya Harmer | Dr Tanya Harmer discusses her research and the need for a global history of the Cold War in Latin America.
Oct 29, 2014•6 min
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox | A quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, Founding Co-Director of LSE IDEAS Professor Michael Cox explains why it’s worth looking at the events of 1989 to understand issues facing the world today.
Oct 29, 2014•8 min
Contributor(s): Dr Eirini Karamouzi | In the context of the Eurozone crisis, many have questioned the rationale behind the decision to let Greece join the European Economic Community (EEC). Dr Eirini Karamouzi discusses this issue and her book, ‘Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979. The Second Enlargement’.
Oct 29, 2014•9 min
Contributor(s): Olga Onuch, Joshua Tucker | Olga Onuch, Research Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics New York University discuss their new survey and online media use data obtained during the recent EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine, their ground-breaking techniques for analysing how new technology interacts with established, “off-line,” social networks, and why policy makers across the world should take note of this research.
Jul 14, 2014•11 min
Contributor(s): Tomila Lankina, Rodion Skovoroda | Tomila Lankina, Associate Professor of International Relations, LSE and Rodion Skovoroda, Assistant Professor Nottingham University, discuss their application of the “last digit” fraud detection statistical technique to analyse the interaction between electoral fraud and mass protests in Russia, and why electoral authoritarian regimes should be wary of mass protests when they try to reproduce themselves through electoral fraud.
Jul 14, 2014•6 min
Contributor(s): David Patel | David Patel, Assistant Professor Cornell University and Crown Center Brandeis University discusses his innovative research into how "squares and roundabouts" - elements of the spatial layout of capital cities and people's collective understanding of urban spaces—help explain why during the recent wave of Arab uprisings mass protests happened in some states and not others.
Jul 14, 2014•6 min
Contributor(s): Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Dr Vanda Felbab-Brown | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Peter Reuter | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•52 sec
Contributor(s): Professor Peter Reuter | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•41 sec
Contributor(s): Dr Nestor Osorio | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Dr Nestor Osorio | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Baroness Molly Meacher | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•3 min
Contributor(s): Baroness Molly Meacher | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Mark Kleiman | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Professor Mark Kleiman | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•4 min
Contributor(s): Professor Laura Atuesta Becerra | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•35 sec
Contributor(s): Professor Laura Atuesta Becerra | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•47 sec
Contributor(s): Dr Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•51 sec
Contributor(s): Dr Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•58 sec
Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Caulkins | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•1 min
Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Caulkins | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•44 sec
Contributor(s): John Collins | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): John Collins | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•1 min
Contributor(s): Dr Joanne Csete | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•2 min
Contributor(s): Dr Joanne Csete | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•53 sec
Contributor(s): Dr Ethan Nadelmann | The LSE IDEAS Expert Group Report on the Economics of Drug Policy produced the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug strategy ever conducted. It aims to use this analysis to design a successor strategy to the global ‘war on drugs’. In so doing it provides the academic underpinnings for a new international paradigm that promotes human security, public health and sustainable development.
May 14, 2014•1 min
