LSE IDEAS

🖥️FREE EVENT | Taiwan’s AI Moment: Chips, Compute, and the Global South

How can Taiwan leverage its semiconductor leadership to expand its global influence? Join Hudson Institute’s Jason Hsu to explore Taiwan’s role in the AI economy.

📆Thursday 19 November 2026 | 6.30pm - 8pm
🎤Jason Hsu, Chaired by Dr John Minnich

⬇️Register Here
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📢Applications for our 2027/2028 Executive MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy are open!

This one-year executive degree is designed for mid-career professionals who want to sharpen their strategic thinking and negotiation skills. Applying is simple:
• Degree award or official transcripts
• CV outlining your experience
• Statement of purpose
• Two references (professional and/or academic)

Submit your application now and join an engaging community of decision-makers.
🗓️ Deadline: 27 August 2027

⬇️Discover more and apply
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📣FREE EVENT | Launch of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission

LSE IDEAS is delighted to launch the Economic Diplomacy Commission, a platform for applied, cross-disciplinary work on economic diplomacy.

As trade, finance, technology, and supply chains become ever more entangled with national security and geopolitics, the Commission asks what role diplomacy now plays in the pursuit of economic ends, and what role economic tools play in the pursuit of diplomatic ones. Approaching these questions from a practitioner’s vantage point and drawing in perspectives too often left out of global debates—including those of the Global South, middle powers and smaller states—the Commission will produce case studies, convene candid exchange between scholars and practitioners, and translate research into practical insight for those who engage in economic diplomacy.

This launch event introduces the Commission’s purpose and programme of work and brings together leading voices to discuss economic diplomacy in a fragmented global order.

📆 Thursday 3 December 2026 | 6pm - 7.30pm

⬇️More Here
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𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗟 + 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 #𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺

“Authoritarian states have shown notable agility in harnessing digital technologies to consolidate power, whereas democracies, once seen as natural beneficiaries of digital innovation, often struggle to respond effectively. The convergence of rapid technological change, emerging authoritarian threats (both from within and from abroad) and persistent governance gaps underscores the urgency of developing more adaptive strategies.

Without proactive policymaking, stronger and better harmonised regulatory frameworks and sustained multilateral cooperation, the unchecked expansion of digital authoritarian practices risks eroding democratic governance from both within and without."

The special issue of Global Policy is available in open access featuring an editorial by Stefano Ruzza (T.wai & University of Torino), Kenddrick Chan (University of Oxford) and Chris Alden (LSE).

The issue is part of an academic collaboration between T.wai, LSE IDEAS and the University of Torino

⬇️Read Here
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🖥️FREE EVENT | Taiwan’s AI Moment: Chips, Compute, and the Global South

Former Legislative Yuan member Jason Hsu, now a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, will discuss Taiwan’s place in the global AI ecosystem and how Taipei can leverage its technological strengths to expand its international space.

📆Thursday 19 November 2026 | 6.30pm - 8pm
🎤Jason Hsu, Chaired by Dr John Minnich

⬇️Register Here
lse.ac.uk/ideas/events/t…