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.
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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