Academic Director’s Welcome

The LSE has built its global reputation by encouraging vigorous intellectual argument and informed debate. For a century or more the School has tried to remain true to its motto – understanding the causes of things (rerum cognoscere causas, for the classical scholars among you!)

This new initiative undertaken by one of the LSE’s most successful research centres – IDEAS – is very much in that tradition. By bringing together academics and policy-makers, and getting practitioners from both the private and public sectors to think strategically about what they are doing in a fast changing world, we are aiming to do what few others in this country have done successfully. Very much in the LSE tradition, this course seeks to help others reflect on many of the big issues that will shape the rest of what is bound to be a most unpredictable century.

Michael Cox Funding Director of LSE IDEAS Academic Director, Executive MSc

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The Class of 2011/12

Those selected included three senior British diplomats and a member of the British National Security Council Secretariat; an adviser from the office of the Turkish Prime Minister; experienced diplomats from the US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Morocco and Thailand; defence officials from China and Japan; a UN official; business people from Iran, Germany and Argentina plus an international arbitration lawyer; a country risk analyst of a major international bank and a regulator from the Financial Services Authority.

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The Faculty

PROFESSOR MICHAEL COX

Michael Cox (Programme Director) is Funding Director of LSE IDEAS. He is a renowned international lecturer who has published extensively on the United States, Transatlantic relations, Asia’s rise. His recent publications include: US Foreign Policy and Soft Power: (2009), Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics (2010), US Foreign Policy (2nd edition, 2012).

PROFESSOR ANNE APPLEBAUM

Anne Applebaum is the Philippe Roman Chair 2012/13 at LSE IDEAS. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate Magazine, and works with the Legatum Institute in London. She has been writing about Communism and Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia since she was the Warsaw correspondent for The Economist in 1989. Her book,Gulag: A History, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004.

PROFESSOR IAIN BEGG

Iain Begg is Professorial Research Fellow at LSE’s European Institute. His main research is on the political economy of European integration and EU economic governance. His current projects include studies on the governance of EU economic and social policy, the reform of the EU budget and the Euro crisis.

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PROFESSOR CRAIG CALHOUN

Craig Calhoun is the Director of the LSE. He was president of the Social Science Research Council in New York from 1999-2012. He has a doctorate in history and sociology from Oxford and a master’s in social anthropology from Manchester University. He has published extensively on nationalism, international politics, and social and political movements.

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER COKER

Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore) and the National institute of Defence Studies (Tokyo). He has been a Teaching Fellow at the Norwegian Staff College. He has twice served on the RUSI Council; he has written extensively on strategy and lectures at defence academies around the world.

DR TOBY DODGE

Toby Dodge is a Reader in the International Relations Department at the LSE and Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Dr Dodge’s research concentrates on the evolution of the post colonial state in the international system. The main focus of this work in the developing world is the state in the Middle East, specifically Iraq.

PROFESSOR SAUL ESTRIN

Saul Estrin is Head of the Department of Management. He is best known for his work on privatisation, competition and foreign direct investment. He was formerly the Research Director of the London Business School’s Centre for New and Emerging Markets, notably Brazil, China, India, Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.

PROFESSOR FAWAZ GERGES

Fawaz Gerges is Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations. He also holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East and is the Director of the Middle East Centre at LSE. His special interests include Islam and the political process, social movements, jihadist groups (such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda) and the international relations of the Middle East.

PROFESSOR MARGOT LIGHT

Margot Light is Emeritus Professor of International Relations. She is a leading authority on Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe, covering their domestic politics, foreign and defence policy, and East-West Relations. Her other specialities include foreign policy analysis and perceptions in foreign affairs.

PROFESSOR DANNY QUAH

Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the LSE. He lectures frequently in the Gulf region, Southeast Asia, and China, and is also Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Quah served on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council (2009-11) and is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances.

PROFESSOR JUDITH REES

Judith Rees was LSE Interim Director in 2011/12 and Deputy Director between 1998-2004. She was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership from 1996-2009, and is now a member of the UN Secretary Generals Advisory Board on water. She previously sat on the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Training and Development Board.

PROFESSOR ARNE WESTAD

Arne Westad is Professor of International History, Co-Director of LSE IDEAS and co-founder of the LSE-Peking University Double MSc in International Affairs. He is a leading authority on the Cold War and its international legacies, as well as the modern history of East Asia. His new history of China’s foreign affairs, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750 will be published in 2012.

The Faculty

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The Practitioners

A significant part of the course is taught by practitioners with first hand experience in International Affairs.

GORDON BARRASS

Gordon Barrass, who leads the team of practitioners, is a visiting professor at LSE IDEAS specialising in strategy. After some 20 years in the British Diplomatic Service he served as Chief of the Assessments Staff in the Cabinet Office, before helping PwC develop its business in China. He is a member of the Trilateral

Nuclear Dialogue (US, France, UK).

SIR MARK ALLEN

Sir Mark is an authority on Middle Eastern affairs. During three decades in the British Diplomatic Service he also worked on East-West relations and the emerging problems of globalisation. Since retiring, he has taken on a variety of advisory roles in Energy, IT and strategic consultancy.

SIR COLIN BUDD

Sir Colin is an expert on European affairs. He was in charge of European and Economic Affairs in the FCO and then served as Ambassador to the Netherlands. He has also held senior positions in the Cabinet Office. He currently advises governments that are preparing to take over the rotating presidency of the EU.

ROBERT COOPER

Robert Cooper was the UK’s Special Representative in Afghanistan until 2002, before taking up a post in the European Union where he was responsible to Javier Solana and assisted with the implementation of European strategic, security and defence policy. He is the author of two influential books: The Post-

Modern State and the World Order (2000) and The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century (2003).

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TAN SRI DR MUNIR MAJID

Dr Majid stepped down as Chairman of Malaysia Airlines at the end of July 2011 after seven years, but maintains a corporate presence as Chairman of Bank Muamalat Malaysia, an Islamic financial institution. During his time at the Securities Commission, he was Chairman of the Emerging Markets Committee of

IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions). He is currently Senior Visiting Fellow in the South East Asia Programme at LSE IDEAS.

SIR DAVID MANNING

Sir David has wide-ranging experience of foreign affairs. He has served as British ambassador to Israel, NATO and the United States. From 2001-03 he was Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Blair. Sir David is currently a Director of Gatehouse Advisory Partners, a non-executive Director of several other

companies, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS.

SIR RICHARD MOTTRAM

Sir Richard is an expert on national security and defence strategy and planning. He was one of Britain’s top civil servants, including heading the Ministry of Defence and being responsible for security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office. His current roles include Chairman of the Defence Science Technology Laboratory.

JONATHAN POWELL

As a British diplomat Jonathan Powell was closely involved in negotiations with the Chinese over Hong Kong and German unification. As Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Blair he played a key role in reaching an agreement with the IRA on a political settlement in Northern Ireland. Jonathan is CEO of Inter Mediate,

a NGO devoted to conflict resolution around the world, and a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley, and to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

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The Practitioners

Practitioners provide intellectual input on core analytical issues and guidance on the process of turning complex threats and risks of the contemporary international landscape into Government strategy.

Programme Calendar

The programme runs for 11 months from Monday 1 October 2012 to Monday 2 September 2013.

Graduation will take place in December 2013 in London when degrees will be awarded.

The programme consists of

• Four intensive weeks of lectures and seminars in October, December, January and March

• Nineteen weekly evening lectures from October to March

• Two policy workshop weekends in November and February*

• A summer term devoted to writing a 3,000 word dissertation plan and a 15,000 word dissertation.

* Policy weekends run on Saturday and Sunday until lunchtime

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The programme begins by taking a fresh look at the nature of strategy and explaining why a new approach is needed, one based on “getting inside the mind” of others and a rigorous assessment of the assumptions that underpin strategy.

This is followed by modules analysing the changing nature of strategic trends, the power of the main players and the institutional environment within which they operate. Other modules focus on the different types of risks and threats that could occur in the decades ahead.

Finally, there are a series of exercises about putting strategy into practice.

Strategy in a Changing WorldFirst Term (October – December)

1 New Strategic Thinking for a new World

• Five full days of lectures and seminars

2 Strategic Trends: Power Shift?

• Four evening seminars

3 Strategic Decisions

• Policy workshop weekend

4 Strategic Actors: Old players-New players in the 21st Century

• Five evening seminars

5 The Strategic Environment – Institutions and Regions

• Four full days of lectures and seminars

Diplomacy and its ChallengesSecond Term (January – March)

6 The Tools of Diplomacy

• Five full days of lectures and seminars

7 Challenges I: New Security Agenda?

• Five evening seminars

8 Strategic Decisions – a 21st Century Solarium Project

• Policy workshop weekend

9 Challenges II – Flashpoints

• Five evening seminars

10 Facing the Future

• Three full days of lectures and seminars

11 Conclusions

• Two full days of lectures and seminars

DissertationThird Term (April – July)

A 3,000 word dissertation plan plus a 15,000 word dissertation on a topic agreed with supervisor

Course work and assessment methodsFirst Term

• Formative essay*

• Assessed essay 25 per cent

Second Term

• Formative essay*

• Assessed essay 25 per cent

Third Term

• 3,000 word Dissertation Plan 12.5 per cent

• 15,000 word dissertation 37.5 per cent

* Formative essays are not part of the course assessment. They are meant to help participants improve their writing skills.

Programme Structure

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The information above is correct at the time of printing. However please note that LSE IDEAS reserves the right to make changes to the programme structure, times and dates and the relocating of an event although every effort will be made to keep to the original structure.