The Munk School is developing a valuable cooperative relationship with the London School of Economics (LSE), involving co-sponsored workshops and conferences, faculty interaction, and collaborative research projects. The most recent initiative in the partnership was the Munk School’s co-sponsorship of a major LSE conference on U.S. foreign policy. Over the course of three days (September 17-19), conference sessions ranged widely over many aspects of the American role in the global arena.
Topics included “Challenges in Counter-terrorism,” “Economics and Grand Strategy,” “The United States’ Middle East Crisis,” and “Another American Century in Asia?” One Munk School-organized session focused on “Emotions and U.S. Foreign Policy,” with papers on George Kennan by Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut), on Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger by Matthieu Vallieres (University of Toronto), and on Barack Obama by Ron Pruessen (Munk School).
Coming up in LSE-Munk School cooperation: a January 20, 2015 public round table in London examining NSA surveillance issues – featuring Ron Deibert, Director of our Citizen Lab.
