Europe as a Global Actor? A Conversation with Javier Solana
After ten years of serving as EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana reflects on the achievements and challenges ahead for Europe as a global security actor with Professor Mary Kaldor. Javier Solana is a Senior Visiting Professor at the LSE Global Governance. He was formerly the Secretary General of the Council of the EU and EU High Representative for CSFP (October 1999 - December 2009). Prior to that, he was the Secretary General of NATO from 1995 – 1999. He is a former physics profes
The Future of Capitalism and Globalisation: Global Perspectives and a European Agenda
The subprime crisis and the global recession are receding. But what will be their long-term consequences? What future awaits globalization, international relations, and the market economy? What are the global trends of crisis policies and what do they mean for the post-crisis world? These fundamental questions will be addressed at an evening debate that will offer both the big global picture and the view from the new EU Commissioner for Trade.
The Strategy of the Global Zero Campaign for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
Bruce Blair, President of the World Security Institute and expert on U.S. and Russian security policies
The Global Emerging Market and its role in a time of crisis
Speaker: Dr Vladimir Kvint, President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets and Chairman of the Russia and CIS division of international architecture firm RMJM Chair: Professor Saul Estrin
The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Speaker: Alan Greenspan, President, Greenspan Associates LLC; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve BoardPresider:Â Peter G. Peterson, Founder and Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Our Water Commons: Toward a Rights Based Solution to the Global Water Crisis
Maude Barlow, senior adviser on water to the United Nations and author of `Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water`
Stanley Hoffman Pt 2: Ethics and Global Policy
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University
Stanley Hoffman Pt 1: Understanding the Global System
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ten years on
Speaker: John Gray, emeritus professor at LSE and author of Gray's Anatomy: selected writings and False Dawn: delusions of global capitalism. Chair: Martin Jacques
A Year after the Collapse of Lehmans: where does global capitalism go now?
Speakers: Andrew Gamble, professor of politics at Cambridge University. Will Hutton, chief executive of the Work Foundation. Danny Quah, professor of Economics at LSE.
The Role of Global NGOs in World Politics: The Case of International Relief and Development NGOs
Speaker: Peter Bell M.P.A.’64, Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and the Hauser Cent for Nonprofit Organization, and former president of CARE
Lecture 27 - 11/24/2010
Lecture 27
20-Year Map of Global Rainfall
This visualization from NASA shows global rainfall patterns over a 22-year span. It incorporates data from a combination of remote-sensing and ground-based sources.
X Is for Wonderment - Understanding the Role of the X Chromosome in Human Genetics
In this lesson, students read a "job description" of motherhood and reflect on its meaning and accuracy. In groups, they research and make and present posters about a sex-linked genetic condition and evaluate possible hereditary scenarios by drawing Punnett squares. Finally, they write a short essay explaining how sex might be genetically linked to certain descriptors.
International Studies 12: Global Issues & Institutions
Intenational Studies 12: Global Issues & Institutions cross listed as Political Science 44A: Global Issues and Institutions.
Global Issues and Institutions is an introductory survey course designed to introduce the students to numerous current issues confronting policy-makers, pundits, and concerned global citizens as well as to the international institutions that regularly cope with those same issues. Among the issues discussed are the following: nuclear politics, energy crisis, war, internati
Understanding Sikhism through Informant Testimonies
Understanding Sikhism through Informant Testimonies
The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order
After the Great Recession, the global monetary system is in turmoil. Can order be restored?
TALAT Lecture 2101.01: Understanding aluminium as a material
This lecture is an introduction to aluminium alloys, fabrication methods and properties. It provides information about the classification of aluminium alloys, new alloys and composites; shaping processes, processing chains and component shapes; microstructure and the interaction between microstructure and properties. It promotes understanding of the fact that the correct choice of materials demands knowledge of alloys, shaping processes and microstructure and the interaction among them. The lect
Changing climate - where energy and global warming meet
This video podcast comes from the frontline of the campaign against global warming. We speak to National Geographic Executive Editor, Dennis Dimick, about his extraordinary career and his commitment to the environment.
