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China is a formidable and emerging power on the world stage, and its booming economy is the second largest in the world.

Sociologist Richard Sennett speaks about his new book, The Performer: art, life, politics.

Globally the proportion of people who live in rural areas is declining, yet the net number continues to increase: from 3 billion in 1990 to 3.4 billion in 2020.

An increasingly challenging global economic environment calls for an evidence-based discussion of the next stage of the UK’s strategy for the attraction and retention of Foreign Direct Investment to fast-track sustainable growth and productivity.

Current media coverage of AI seems to assume that it has just suddenly appeared out of the blue.

The German Finance Minister talks about new realities and strengthening Germany’s competitiveness for the benefit of its economy and its partners.

Mark R. Beissinger provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.

How can resorts, with their wealth of cultural heritage, forge a new future?

Speakers address what was achieved in these negotiations, how the Treaty speaks to global justice, equity, and climate change and what happens next in terms of ratification and entry into force of the Treaty.

In Saudi Arabia, the project of nation-building was troubled from its first days as the Al-Saud rulers struggled to construct a nation out of the fragments.

Although each of us derives enormous benefit from the vast network of cooperative social relations that exists among human beings, there is still no unified scientific theory that explains how we succeed in sustaining these relations.

There has been a huge increase in discussion of racial capitalism, linked both to a revisiting of anticapitalist analysis and of the legacies of colonial violence.

It’s often said that there shouldn’t be any billionaires. But this is a mistake.

Behavioural public policy has gained significant attention recently due to two key factors: political debates over government size and role, and the globally influential approach of nudging.

What are the smallest accidents that have tilted the course of history itself?

can we build an economics based on cooperation?

How can journalists help citizens understand what net-zero entails? What it means for them, given their values and livelihoods?

Prime Minister De Croo talks about the strengths of the Union, its relationship with the United Kingdom, and the ways in which the EU needs to reform to stay in shape.

This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.

This special event welcomes LSE alumnus Bisher Khasawneh, Prime Minister of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

During the last two years, inflation has re-emerged in the developed world together with concerns about it being persistent.

This year’s Chant lecture explores imperatives to reconfiguring global urban science to meet these ambitions.

In conversation with LSE alumna Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados.

This event brings together some of the key contributors to this long running debate and underline LSE’s commitment to engage in this important public policy issue.

Have human rights lost their power as an ethical discourse?