Bingchun Meng
Title and Affiliation: Professor, LSE
Time: Session 1, morning
Time: Session 1, morning
Course Description: Chinese media and communication industries have been undergoing profound changes in the last few decades. While champions of liberal democracy have been predominantly critical of the various ‘soft power’ campaigns that the Chinese state initiates, transnational media companies have wasted no time in not only entering the Chinese market but also incorporating Chinese investment.
Fawaz Gerges
Title and Affiliation: Professor，LSE
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: The course is intended to give students a big picture analysis of the regional politics of the Middle East from the end of World War I in 1918 till the present, and of their interaction with problems of international security, global resources and great power/super power/hyperpower politics. The overarching aim of this module to enrich students historical understanding of this pivotal region of the world and provide them with the analytical-theoretical tools that help them unlock the riddle of
Alvaro Mendez & Chris Alden
Title and Affiliation: Professor, LSE
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Course Description: This course focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how China is leveraging its material power in pursuit of global leadership through the implementation of ‘development as grand strategy,’ with a special focus on developing regions. China's economic position, coupled with an astute use of finances stemming from its neo-mercantilist policies, has enabled it to become the leading trading partner and a significant investor in the Global South. Moreover, through the BRI, the Global So
Pierre ANDRIEU
Title and Affiliation: Instructor at ESCP, ISIT and IRIS in Paris
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Course Description: The relations between Europe and China are old and multifaceted. Without going back to the Silk Road, commercial and intellectual contacts were enriched from the 17th century, notably with the arrival of the Jesuits at the Imperial Court. Then exchanges of all kinds with Europe contributed, sometimes dramatically, to reaffirming China's eminent place in the world. From their inception, United Europe and the PRC have maintained growing economic and political relations commensurate with their resp
Daniel Guttman
Title and Affiliation: Professor, Fudan University, IGPP
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: In 2024, ancient and unresolved challenges of war, pandemic, poverty and inequality are conjoined with 21st century challenges of climate change and sustainability. To address old and new challenges, many look to new technologies. But, at the same time, there are deep questions of how these technologies will themselves be governed and put to work for common good.
José A. Puppim de Oliveira
Title and Affiliation: Visiting Chair Professor IGPP , Fudan University & Professor at FGV (Brazil)
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Course Description: The course provides a critical analysis of the challenges for governing global environmental problems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The students in the course will learn how to analyze global public policies in different aspects with examples and cases from around the world. Innovations in public policy, governance, technologies and business management have been introduced to deal with global changes, such as depletion of the ozone layer, climate change and loss of biodiversity.
