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Susan Strange memorial lecture series

from the Department of International Relations

A lecture series which celebrates the life and achievements of Professor Susan Strange, the highly influential figure in the academic field of International Relations in late twentieth-century Britain and a world-leading thinker on international political economy.

Susan Strange (1923-1998) held the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ from 1978-88 and was a world renowned leader of the field. She had studied at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and become a journalist before returning to academia. As a professor at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, she published her most influential books and founded the British International Studies Association. Later, she became the third woman and first Briton to hold the Presidency of the International Studies Association in the United States.

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Rituals and the Making of International Society

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2022

Thursday 1 December 2022

Speaker: Thierry Balzacq, Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2022/23 at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Professor at the Center for International Studies, SciencesPo.

Chair: Jeffrey Chwieroth, Professor of International Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Diplomatic apologies, joint military exercises, gift giving, and global summits, are assumed to be some of the most iconic rituals of world politics. However, many actions that are achieved by means of rituals can be enacted otherwise. What criteria, then, do scholars employ to say that an action or an event is a ritual, and what difference (if any) does it make to its character as well as to its efficacy?

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The International Political Economy: sources of nuclear proliferation

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2020

Thursday 13 February 2020 

Speaker: Etel Solingen, Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California Irvine and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor, 2019/20 at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Chair: Karen E. Smith, Professor of International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Whereas relative power and security dilemmas have dominated the study of nuclear proliferation for decades, an approach centered on the "cui bono" (who benefits) question reveals how domestic distributional implications related to the global economy have systematic effects on states’ nuclear choices.

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International Liberalism and its Discontents

Department of International Relations Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2019

Thursday 31 January 2019 

Speaker: Stephan Haggard, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, and the Susan Strange Visiting Professor 2018/19, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Liberal internationalism is on the defensive across the West. Stephan Haggard examines the causes of this backlash and its global implications.

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Partners or Adversaries? Managing US-China Relations in the Era of Trump

Department of International Relations inaugural Susan Strange Memorial Lecture 2017

Thursday 16 November 2017 

Speaker: Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A Rockefeller Professor of Government, Dartmouth College and the inaugural Susan Strange Professor of International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, 2017/18.

Discussant: Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

The post-Cold War US-China “grand bargain” in economics and security is now unravelling, and faces new uncertainty in the era of Trump.

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 (90 minutes)