Grimshaw Club

Grimshaw Podcasts

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Welcome to the LSE Grimshaw Club's podcasts! In our bimonthly episodes, host Carola Ducco and other Grimshaw Club members discuss careers and research in international relations. In Grimshaw Speakers, our longstanding series, we are joined by practitioners in IR, who tell us about their journey and career tips. In Grimshaw Spotlight, we chat to PhD students, fellows and professors at the LSE and beyond, and learn about their ongoing research and the future of IR. Find us on Instagram @grimshawmedia and at @grimshawlse !

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Weekly News Roundup #4 - South Korean Martial Law, HTS in Syria, French government collapse, Namibia and Romania elections, Amnesty report on Israel and Gaza 09.12.2024 13:02

Weekly News Summary: 30th–6th December 2024

Weekly News Roundup #3 - Lebanon ceasefire, sanction ban in Venezuela, Trump's cases dropped, unfair elections in Georgia and freedom of press in Afghanistan 02.12.2024 7:04

Weekly News Summary: 23rd–29th November 2024

Weekly News Roundup #2 - Sudan ceasefire veto, U.S. policy on Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict 25.11.2024 6:20

Weekly News Summary: 16th–22nd November 2024

Weekly News Roundup #1 - COP29, Trump and children militias in Haiti 18.11.2024 7:53

Weekly News Summary: 9th–15th November 2024

Grimshaw Speakers #17 - Beatriz Buarque: Moving Through Journalism, NGOs and Academia 29.05.2024 33:47

This week we are thrilled to talk to Beatriz Buarque, LSE100 Fellow, Chevening Scholar, founder of NGO Words Heal the World and PhD at the University of Manchester. After 10 years as a journalist at Brazil's GloboNews, she founded her NGO and moved to the UK to pursue a Master's in International Relations and then a PhD investigating the legitimisation of alt-right conspiracy theories in digital s...

Grimshaw Spotlight #2 - Elections 2024: what will they mean for U.S. foreign policy? In conversation with Micheal Cox 12.03.2024 28:36

In this week's episode, we talk to Micheal Cox, Emeritus Professor in the department of International Relations at the LSE, Co-founding Director of LSE Ideas, the LSE foreign policy think tank, and contributor to institutions such as Chatham House and the Nobel institute in Oslo. He is a specialist in US foreign policy and LSE history. Our host Carola Ducco and one of our co-Editors, Riccardo Gon,...

Grimshaw Speakers #16 - Nathalie Tocci, Between Policymaking and Academia 26.02.2024 46:25

This week, we interviewed Nathalie Tocci, the Director of the Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Italy. In 2016, she wrote the EU Global Strategy as Special Advisor to the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. She holds an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics, and she has spent her career in think tanks, universities and in policy roles. Benedetta Mora...

Grimshaw Speakers #15 - A.J. Manuzzi and the John Quincy Adams Society 31.01.2024 33:28

Welcome to a new episode of Grimshaw Speakers, where we talk IR careers, delve into practitioners' journeys, and ask for their tips to success. In this episode we talk to A.J. Manuzzi, Program Assistant at The John Quincy Adams Society (JQAS), an organisation promoting restraint in U.S. foreign policy. We discuss how he navigated finding a field of expertise, the importance of learning multiple la...

Grimshaw Spotlight #1 – Robbie Shilliam and Decolonising International Relations 12.12.2023 37:47

After a long hiatus, welcome back to Grimshaw Podcasts, the podcast of the London School of Economics' Grimshaw Club! In our new series, Grimshaw Spotlight, we dive into the latest international relations research. Today we are interviewing Robbie Shilliam, a professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore. We discuss decolonising the discipline, Marxism, intern...