BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/saving-the-planet-i n-an-age-of-geopolitical-rivalry/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:386b1c2e-fd1f-4a42-9143-e044f5bfb8a7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260618T073531 DTSTART:20260619T180000 DTEND:20260619T190000 SUMMARY:Saving the planet in an age of geopolitical rivalry LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Gr eat Hall\, Marshall Building) DESCRIPTION:Friday 19 June 2026 7pm - 8pmSpeakersProfessor Catherine Boone Professor Robert FalknerProfessor Stephanie RickardProfessor Tang Xiaoyang Professor Zhao KejinChairProfessor Peter TrubowitzIs the return of great p ower rivalry and conflict eroding the collective capacity and willingness of the international community to address environmental\, trade\, and publ ic health crises globally?Leading international relations experts from LSE and Tsinghua University discuss the global resurgence of geopolitical com petition and the implications of this for strategies that sustainability l eaders can adopt to sustain international cooperation over climate\, trade \, and health in our increasingly fractured world.Meet your speakers and c hair:Catherine Boone is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a PhD in Poli tical Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research foc uses on questions of comparative political economy\, and especially on que stions of institutional change and economic development. Her books include Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (2024) \, Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Conflict in Africa (2014)\; Political Topographies of the African State: Territori al Authority and Institutional Choice (2003). She was elected to the Briti sh Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. At the L SE\, she convened the MSc in African Development and has led the LSE-UCL L and Politics Working Group since 2015.Robert Falkner is Professor of Inter national Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE\, a nd the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA\, a world leading e xecutive MBA programme jointly run by NYU Stern School of Business\, HEC P aris and LSE.Stephanie J Rickard is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government at LSE. For over fifteen years\, she has research ed issues related to the international political economy\, including trade agreements and international financial rescues. In her award-winning book \, Spending to Win\, Rickard investigates how economic geography influence s countries' economic policies and international economic relations.Tang X iaoyang is the chair and a professor in the Department of International Re lations at Tsinghua University. His research interests include political p hilosophy\, China’s engagement in the developing countries and global mo dernization process. He is the author of Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approa ches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation (Cambridge Universit y Press 2020) and has published extensively on the Belt and Road Initiativ e. Previously\, he worked at the International Food Policy Research Instit ute in Washington\, DC and as a consultant for the World Bank\, UNDP\, USA ID. He was also deputy director for Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Po licy until 2021. He completed his Ph.D. in the philosophy department at th e New School for Social Research in New York. He earned his M.A in philoso phy from Freiburg University in Germany and his B.A in business management from Fudan University in Shanghai.Zhao Kejin\, Professor and Deputy Direc tor of Global Development Institute at Tsinghua University. He received hi s Ph.D in International Relations at Fudan University and worked at the Ce nter for American Studies at Fudan University until 2009 when he moved to Tsinghua University as Professor at Institute of International Studies. He has published more than 120 papers in academic journals and published boo ks on such topics as the American studies\, public diplomacy and China’s foreign policy. His current research focuses on global governance\, publi c diplomacy and China’s foreign affairsPeter Trubowitz is Professor of I nternational Relations\, and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE and A ssociate Fellow at Chatham House\, Royal Institute of International Affair s.More about this eventThis event is part of the LSE Festival: How to save the planet running from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026. 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