Summer 2006 Vol 18 Number 1 Magazine

Shaw and the Fabian window A piece of Fabian heritage finds a home at LSE

Stranded in the middle? Are the middle classes and middle aged suffering a work ethic crisis?

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Message from Features4 Headline news 15 6 Stranded in the middle? the editor Richard Sennett considers a crisis for those on the career ladder. If there’s a theme for this issue it’s about being in the middle. Richard Sennett writes about middle-aged workers 8 The Fabian window being caught between youth and ‘the scrapheap’. Roger Designed in 1910, mysteriously found in Arizona, Silverstone talks about media, and how those with different then sold at auction, the Fabian window now has perspectives on the world can sometimes be misheard, a home at LSE. or ignored, by modern media. Alumna Julie Masal writes about the ‘middle men’ importing and exporting treasures, 9 Listen to the voices CITY OF WESTINSTER ARCHIVES CENTRE and our student finalists share their experiences of being The School launched a new journalism initiative between graduation and their first job. this year. Roger Silverstone explains the ideas behind POLIS. There’s also a fascinating look back at what used to 12 exist on the School’s site before LSE, then a glimpse into 11 Treasure seekers the future with the School’s New Academic Building and Julie Masal looks at how national treasures are new student residences. bought and sold across continents. We’re also keen to hear how best the Alumni Relations 12 The finalists team and this magazine can be a medium between you Life after LSE? Tom Ketteley and Anne Kroijer and the School. What would you like to read more or chronicle their search for that first job. less of in the magazine, and how else would you like to keep in contact with LSE? The new Alumni Association 15 A corner of London, the heart of is gathering strength after its foundation last year and the campus we look forward to telling you more about its activities in George Kiloh delves into the history of Clare forthcoming issues. Market and Houghton Street before LSE arrived. So, whatever you’re in the middle of, I hope you can break 18 A Cold War legacy of intervention 24 off for a short time, sit down and enjoy reading this issue. Arne Westad considers the Cold War and its after effects. 20 A brief encounter with Sudoku Not heard of Sudoku? Gautam Appa, Kai Judith Higgin Helge Becker and Katerina Papadaki test your logic skills.

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I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 3 Fabian window unveiled Prime minister Tony Blair officially unveiled a window, originally designed by , at the School in April. This Fabian window now sits alongside the famous picture of LSE founders and Fabians Sidney and in the Shaw Library. At the ceremony Mr Blair spoke about the remarkable way the Fabians influenced the Labour party, not just in its creation but also in its economic, political and intellectual development: ‘Despite all the very obvious differences in policy and attitude and positioning...

MARIA MOORE a lot of the values that the Fabians and George Bernard Shaw stood for would be very recognisable, at least I hope they would, in today’s Labour party.’ Mr Blair concluded that he was ‘absolutely delighted to come to this extraordinary and august centre of learning, which is similarly associated with the Fabians and the Webbs’ for such ‘a wonderful and poignant moment’. Director Howard Davies said: ‘It is a great honour for the School to have this piece of national heritage on campus. The window will be a visible reminder to students, staff and visitors’ of the School’s historical links with Shaw, the Webbs and other Fabians, whose ideas continue to influence our thinking about society, economics and politics.’ See page 8

Next chairman appointed Peter Sutherland KCMG has been elected as a member of the LSE Court of Governors and has agreed to be chairman of the Council and the Court from 1 January 2008. Current chairman will step down in December 2007, at which stage he will have served nine years as chairman. The chairman of governors is chosen by a selection committee which includes staff, students and lay governors. It is a non-executive position, and the principal duties are to chair one meeting of the Court of Governors a term and three meetings a term of the Council. Formerly attorney general of Ireland, a and director general of the World Trade Organisation, among other appointments, Mr Sutherland is chairman of BP plc, chairman of International and a UN special representative for migration. Howard Davies said: ‘My academic colleagues and I are delighted that Peter Sutherland has agreed to join us and, in time, to take on the chairmanship of the School. His background in public policy 7 and his business and international interests match the LSE’s profile remarkably well. We look forward to the School continuing to prosper under his leadership.’

New Greek research fellowship The Greek minister of economy and finance Professor George Alogoskoufis announced a new initiative with the Hellenic Observatory at LSE. The Greek government is to fund a new academic post to boost the Observatory’s research on Greece’s economic relations within south east Europe. The new Research Fellow post will enable an experienced academic to spend time at 8 the Observatory producing high quality research for up to one year. Professor Alogoskoufis (MSc Economics 1978, PhD Economics 1981) holds a chair in Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. 9 , director of the Hellenic Observatory, said: ‘This is a timely boost for LSE’s focus on south east Europe: it gives us greater specialisation in an area of economic policy of increasing relevance to the European Union as a whole. Coming after the announcement of a fellowship funded by the National Bank of Greece, the new Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, and the specialist expertise of colleagues elsewhere in the School, this enables us to make a valuable contribution to relevant policy debates.’ Howard Davies said: ‘We are most grateful to Professor Alogoskoufis and the Greek government for making it possible.’

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1 Valery Giscard d’Estaing, president minister of Canada, considered democratic professor of economics at Harvard University, of the European Convention, and former responses to terrorism and the Madrid agenda. talked about economics as a discipline. president of the French Republic, spoke on 4 Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim (PhD 7 Patricia Hewitt MP, the UK’s 8 the political future of Europe in February. Government 1971), Brazilian minister of foreign secretary of state for health, gave the 2 Professor Richard Dawkins celebrated relations, spoke on World Trade Organisation LSE Health and Social Care’s 2005 the 30 year anniversary of the publication negotiations (WTO). annual lecture on investment and reform: 9 of The Selfish Gene with a debate at 5 Valentine Sendanyoye-Rugwabiza, transforming health and healthcare. the School which provoked an amazing deputy director general of the WTO, spoke 8 , high response for tickets. A transcript and about making the Doha development agenda commissioner for human rights, talked audio recording are available via the LSE a true development round. about protecting human rights in an age events website, www.lse.ac.uk/events 6 Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel prize of uncertainty. She was previously a chief 3 Kim Campbell (PhD 1973), secretary- winning economist, LSE honorary fellow, and prosecutor for the International Criminal general of the Club of Madrid and former prime currently Lamont University Professor and Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 5 Stranded in the middle?

How do people in the middle cope with work-life pressures? Richard Sennett considers a middle class crisis.

f you did not get your multi-million dollar bonus middle; its risks are especially evident among those last year, few people will shed a tear for you. whose fortunes are tied to the ‘new economy’, IBut spare a thought for people in the middle cutting edge, global businesses such as financial of your organisation. Many of them are highly services, media and high tech. They account for no vulnerable to risk, with little prospect of reward. more than 20 per cent of US and 15 per cent of In the last generation, wealth has stagnated for British employment but in them, modern capitalism workers in the middle of the economy even as those has concentrated its energies and defined its ideals. at the top have, famously, become even richer and, The new economy has reformulated workers’ an unsung achievement, many poor workers have experience of time. Long service and accumulated ‘If you are dutiful but increased their wealth share. Stagnating wages are experience do not earn the rewards that more not brilliant at work, the main cause; in the US, for example, the middle traditional companies once provided. Instead, quintile is barely better off than it was 15 years cutting edge businesses want young employees if you have children ago. Though property values have increased, this who can work long hours; the ‘youth premium’ and a mortgage, if asset is hard to access for ordinary income; to gain works against older employees with multiple traction as consumers, mid-level families in the US responsibilities. Dynamic companies have also you are worried about and Britain have had to pile up massive debts, while shortened the time frame of work itself; jobs are hardship in later life, middle class Europeans have not done much better. defined as short-lived projects rather than perma- then instability does For this slice of society, stagnation has become nent functions. In the media, mid-level employees intertwined with insecurity. Work has taken on a can expect increasingly to work on six, or even not equal opportunity’ new character in recent decades for people in the three, month contracts, if there are contracts at 6 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I these markets has increased the centralisation enjoyed by people at the top of the economic of power. To turn a business around quickly, the ladder. In the emerging work culture, middle level command centre must be able to act decisively employees tend to have fleeting social relationships without bureaucratic muffling. Modern technolo- in short-lived teams; the resources available online gies have helped companies strip out their middle are too limited and superficial to avail people in layers of bureaucracy, and so shorten the chain of the middle when they are looking for work. This is command. Sophisticated business programmes one reason why these employees correctly believe can now model a firm’s inputs and outputs minute that conferences and conventions deeply matter. by minute, so that the workings of even very large If your goal is survival, you need other people, firms can be displayed instantly on screen. Rule by and you need really to know them, face to face. email is also a way to reign, instantly, from the centre. The struggling middle class has become a Though not a dominant employer, the dynamic favourite theme of western politicians. This polit- motor of the new economy controls smaller local ical rhetoric seems out of touch with the realities businesses, down to goods in the corner store. on the ground. It celebrates the skills society, More important, the short-term, lean, high-tech which in reality is increasingly located off-shore. company has become the sex symbol of the busi- Politicians have not taken on board, I think, the ness world. Mid-level, middle aged, stable workers crisis of the work ethic for those in the middle, detract from the allure: they appear in managerial an ethic that turns on institutional loyalty and on manuals devoted to the new economy as ‘ingrown reliability in providing for the family, an ethic that bureaucrats’ who are ‘resistant to change’. A requires political programmes to ensure continuity company can sex itself up practically by replacing and durability in middle class life: a politics of time, mid-level bureaucracy with technology, by export- to countervail against the new economy. n ing technical work to low-wage countries, or simply by enforcing a work ethos in which all employees are treated as young, unencumbered and driven. For the last ten years, my research team has been studying how people in the middle cope with these pressures. As befits adults, people with paunches are ambivalent. On the one hand, they believe in the new work ethos: business Richard Sennett is professor of and chair of the Cities Programme

AILSA DRAKE should be dynamic and lean; in publicly traded companies, mid-level employees recognise the at LSE. shareholder pressures on their bosses. On the This article first appeared in the other hand, they see their own income stagna- Financial Times. His book The Culture of the New Capitalism all. Throughout the new economy, companies are tion as unfair. If the company does not value their (Yale University Press 2006) addresses work dilemmas rapidly changing business focus and identity in commitment, why should they feel loyalty to it? in the 21st century. His previous books response to shifting global market conditions. Many discussions of work-life balance focus include Respect in an Age of Inequality Meanwhile, time has been transformed through- on the lengthening time employees now spend (Penguin, 2003) and The Corrosion of out the economy as the security net of benefits on the job; in Britain, the European champion, Character (Norton, 1998). has torn. Thirty years ago, industrial labourers working and commuting is edging up to 11 hours were menaced when plants went bust; today daily. The people we interviewed have found vari- uncertain pensions and healthcare have become ous effective ways to deal with these family-time middle class problems. The risks of space have deficits; they encounter more trouble managing the compounded those of time. A generation ago the unreliability of work as a source of family support. Recent research and events on work exported to low wage countries was routine, That both men and women worry about failing work and life balance at the School manual jobs; today, computer programming and their families was a key finding – this spectre once architectural engineering can be profitably exported haunted manual labourers but has now migrated The LSE Gender Institute, together to India, China and . to the middle class. Manual labourers had strong with the University of Manchester and Instability can be an opportunity if you have real unions to turn to; white-collar unions are weak or University College London, is holding six wealth to invest, or are young and unattached, or non-existent in the new economy. Three generation Economic and Social Research Council a new immigrant exploring cracks in the labour working class families pooled support in times of seminars this year and in 2007 on work, force. But if you are dutiful but not brilliant at work, need; middle class nuclear families go it alone. life and time in the new economy. See if you have children and a mortgage, if you are People in the middle, both young and old, grasp www.lse.ac.uk/collections/worklife worried about hardship in later life, then instability at the idea that ‘skills’ will somehow defend them does not equal opportunity. against the risks of the modern workplace. Yet, young Work-Life Balance, Management How did the middle slice of workers wind up in people know that the education system turns out Practices and Productivity by Nick this fraught position? After the breakdown of the many more qualified graduates than there are jobs. Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer and John Bretton Woods agreements in the early 1970s, a And middle aged people grasp at the idea of retrain- Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic sea of capital flooded the world and it was ‘impa- ing themselves even though they know that frequently Performance (CEP) was published in tient capital’, in the words of Bennett Harrison, the employers are likely to prefer freshly trained workers January 2006. economist, capital looking for short term returns at home or workers pre-trained abroad. Nothing on share prices rather than longer term dividends was more grinding, to me, than listening to people Dr Catherine Hakim has published on profits. To benefit, companies had to change my age talk of re-inventing themselves to be more Key Issues in Women’s Work: female themselves by innovating in their products or in competitive, mouthing clichés they barely believed. diversity and the polarisation of women’s the way they organised themselves, in order to What these workers felt they lacked most is employment (Glasshouse Press, 2004) ‘send a signal’ to their markets. Performing for the thick, dense, supportive networks of contacts

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 7 Fabian and Labour archives at LSE During the early years of the Labour Party, the famous socialist couple Sidney and Beatrice Webb The Fabian window believed that working with the Liberals and Con- servatives was the most effective way to create a fairer society. However, by the 1910s they had abandoned this idea of ‘permeation’ and started to work more closely with the Labour Party. As Beatrice wrote in her diary in December 1912: ‘…the Labour Party exists and we have to work with it. A poor thing, but our own.’ Sidney Webb helped draft Labour’s consti- tution, including ‘Clause 4’; he was Labour MP for Seaham, 1922-29; and, he served in the first two Labour governments, 1924 and 1929-31. In the 1930s the couple distanced themselves from the Labour Party and concen- trated on writing, speaking and broadcasting. The Webbs’ archive at LSE, the Passfield papers (so named as Sidney was created Lord Passfield in 1929) contains 126 boxes of material relating to the Webbs’ political, professional and personal lives.

The Webb Memorial Trust The Trust was established in 1944 as a memorial to Beatrice Webb. Trustees at the time included Walter Citrine, Richard Tawney and Harold Laski. The Trust’s first act was to obtain a substantial mortgage from the Transport and General Workers Union to purchase a large Victorian country house near Dorking in Surrey and rename it Beatrice Webb House. It became a resource to further the education and organisational skills of bodies A piece of Fabian history was installed in the School this April. involved in the Labour movement and was widely used by the Labour Party, the and trade unions for weekend and summer schools rime minister Tony Blair officially unveiled 13 September 1947 by the then prime minis- for around 30 years. the window, originally commissioned and ter Clement Attlee (an LSE lecturer 1912-23). Following considerable decline in the demand P designed by George Bernard Shaw, which The window was subsequently stolen from the for such facilities, the Trust was obliged to sell will sit alongside the famous Nicholson picture of house in 1978 and surfaced in Phoenix, Arizona, the property in 1986. The proceeds were invest- Sidney and Beatrice Webb in the Shaw Library. soon after, but then disappeared until it suddenly ed and have been used to fund a number of The Fabian window was made by reappeared for sale at Sotheby’s in July 2005. The projects both in the UK and in Eastern Europe to artist Caroline Townshend in 1910, commissioned Webb Memorial Trust purchased it and they have promote economic and social justice and demo- by George Bernard Shaw, a founder member of now loaned it long term to LSE. cratic structures. Over the next three years the the Fabian Society. It shows Shaw, Sidney Webb Trust will be funding a major resource project and ER Pease, secretary of the Fabian Society, The Fabian Society looking at changes in government policy over helping to build ‘the new world’. The figures are The Fabian Society is Britain’s leading centre left the last 60 years aimed at reducing deprivation, in Elizabethan dress which was to poke fun at think tank and political society. Founded in 1884, identifying what has worked and what has not, Pease who evidently loved everything medieval. early members included George Bernard Shaw, the and suggesting what now needs to be done. The Fabian Society’s coat of arms is shown as Webbs, Emmeline Pankhurst and HG Wells. The The project will report in 2009, the 100th anni- a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Society joined with trade unionists in 1900 to found versary of the publication of Beatrice Webb’s The people grouped at the bottom were leading the Labour Party, to which it has remained affili- Minority Report to the Poor Law Commission. n members of the Society, most of them members ated ever since. Fabian pamphlets first proposed of the Fabian executive, with on the far left, HG a minimum wage in 1906, the National Health Wells, who is seen ‘cocking a snook’ – evident- Service in 1911, and the abolition of hereditary ly a reference to his unsuccessful battle with peers in 1917. Shaw and Webb for control of the Society. Third Today the Fabian Society has a national member- from the left is Aylmer Maude, well known for ship of over 6,000 plus 65 local societies around Installation of the Fabian window was made possible through being a translator of Tolstoy, and, on the far right, the UK. The theme of the first Fabian pamphlet, alumni donations to the Annual Fund, see www.lse.ac.uk/ lseannualfund. Caroline Townshend, who produced the window. Why are the Many Poor?, remains central, with The window was unveiled at Beatrice Webb current research focused on ending child poverty Others involved in the project included Laraine Clark, Nicholas Poole-Wilson, Alan Revel, Julian Robinson, Claire Willgress, and narrowing inequalities in life chances. See House, near Dorking, when the house was Giles Wright. The window was installed by Molyneux Kerr formally opened as a conference venue on www.fabians.org.uk Architects and Barnard and Carter Builders.

8 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I Listen to the voices

A new voice? Al Jazeera is due to launch a 24 hour transnational news channel in English this summer

If we don’t understand how the media go about their daily business, we are less and less likely to understand and respect each other. The School is launching a new teaching, research and debate AP/EMPICS initiative called POLIS. Roger Silverstone explains more.

ometime in the middle of the war in lenses of our regular newscasts or online reports. much of this passes by, mere flickering on the screen Afghanistan, during a period of intense The blacksmith in Afghanistan, the fishermen of Sri of more immediate experience, yet its presence is a Sairborne propaganda by the US forces, and Lanka, the dispossessed and starving in Dhafour, constant reminder that we are not alone in the world. not a little bombing, a blacksmith was interviewed not only make their most significant if not their It matters, then, how that world is represented. on the BBC’s Radio 4 lunchtime news programme, only appearance in times of great suffering and It matters if we, in our different places around the World at One. Why, he was asked, did he distress, but even when they do, they appear as globe, are to seek ways of living with each other think all this was happening around his silent. Rarely do we get to hear others interpreting and of respecting each other. Another way of village? It was, he suggested, because Al our world, nor indeed our suffering. putting this is to suggest that the media, particularly Qaeda had killed many Americans and their The relationships that the global media offer their the news media, carry a moral force. They offer donkeys and had destroyed some of their readers, audiences and users, are fundamental to the the resources that human beings need both for castles. He was not, of course, entirely wrong. way in which the world is understood and the way in positioning themselves and for understanding and What was so significant about this man’s which everyday life is conducted. In providing us with respecting the other. And in times of significant momentary appearance on the British airwaves? sequences and stories, in news and documentary, discord and polarisation – our times – the role We are accustomed to learning about the world but also in drama and reality shows, the media create and significance of the news media assumes even from our media. Indeed the world beyond our a blanketing culture for those who use them and, at greater moral and ethical proportions. immediate experience reaches us almost entirely least in the developed world, that’s most of us. This is So how do we actually get to see, how can we really on screens and speakers and in the screaming a visible and audible culture, of course, full of human listen to, those so different from us on the other side headlines of the nation’s news. Yet the voices beings – those like us, or claimed to be like us, as well of the planet, or even on the other side of the city? and the images that tell us how it is, how to make as those who are different. And in this 24/7 mediated The mediated 21st century has begun badly. The sense of the otherwise invisible and unintelligible, world, the invitation is to acknowledge and engage attack on the World Trade Centre, the massacre at are, almost entirely, our voices, and the world which with all those whom we see, minute by minute. This Beslan, the torture at Abu Ghraib, the cartoons in is reported emerges through the taken for granted is what news, perhaps above all, is for, after all. If the Jyllands-Posten, are events of great moment t

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and impoverished humanity which, for those of us not directly involved, exist almost entirely through the media’s reporting of them. Both the live and the dramatic, as well as the belated and the satiric, have opened up the great sore of the present, but have also had dramatic consequences way beyond the media’s own representation of them. On the ba- sis of what has been seen and heard on the screen – and then not always actually heard and seen, but sometimes only heard about – positions have been taken, judgements made both by those in power as well as by the rest of us, the men and the women in the street. And lives have been lost. Offence has been taken. Evil has been identified. Responsibility has been acknowledged or, just as often, denied. The mediated 21st century is also, nevertheless, seeing a sea change in the ways in which news and current affairs appear and make their presence felt. GETTY IMAGES These changes are prompted by technology. The digital revolution is beginning to take hold and news is no longer a property of the transnational media A technician records a broadcast from the Tele Sahal studios in Niger corporation or the national broadcaster. News is everywhere. Online. On-mobile. On-PDA. And it is no longer singular. It is increasingly becoming a shareable product, with alternative sources and interactive content. While its status as a moral force remains, for news by definition involves judge- ments about the world, it is far from clear whether its increasingly diversified future will reinforce or challenge its centrality to the human condition, POLIS and whether that condition as a consequence will become less or more tolerant and hospitable POLIS is a new journalism initiative, launched in 2006, between LSE’s Department to the strange, the difficult and the threatening. of Media and Communications and the University of the Arts London/London There is, however, one new initiative that might, College of Communication (LCC). or perhaps should, make a difference. The Qatari based television station Al Jazeera launches its 24 The , the Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, officially hour transnational news channel in English this opened POLIS with a lecture on ‘The News We Deserve’. summer. For the first time, western audiences will have a systematic opportunity to see and has been appointed as POLIS director, listen to the non-western interpretation of our Charlie Beckett beginning on 1 June. He was most recently programme editor world as well as their own. This is the voice of the for Jon Snow’s Channel 4 News at ITN in London. Before that Afghan blacksmith writ large, very large. And it is he spent ten years working across a range of BBC news and reasonable to suppose that even if not many of current affairs programmes. us actually watch it on a regular basis, or even at all, its very presence will shift the economy and He began his career as a local journalist in south London before joining London Weekend culture of western media in significant ways and, Television (LWT). He was a Reuters Fellow at Green College Oxford, researching digitalisation I would hope, for the better. n and the developing world, and has won various awards for film-making and programme editing.

POLIS core activities are: • public lectures, ‘Chatham House’ style seminars, and open debates on the changing role of news media and the challenges that they face, leading to a series of publications reporting on the debates and making specific policy interventions Roger Silverstone • postgraduate teaching and short courses based at LCC, including a jointly taught master’s is professor of media and communications at LSE. programme geared towards mid-career UK and international journalists His book Media and Morality (Polity) is published in • media research, with POLIS researchers based at LSE, and working with LCC faculty and September 2006. practising journalists in London and worldwide The POLIS advisory board comprises chair Will Wyatt, ex BBC, president of the Royal Television Society; Bronwyn Curtis, Bloomberg; Philip Gould (Baron Gould of Brookwood); Clive Jones, ITV News; Anne Lapping, Brook Lapping; Sir Peter Stothard, formerly of and now editor of the Times Literary Supplement; and Michael Oreskes, editor in chief, International Herald Tribune. To apply for short courses beginning in autumn 2006, see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ media@lse/Polis.htm

10 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I Julie Masal argues for more transparency and better self-regulation War and occupation, of course, have also led to to tackle the illicit trade in antiquities. widespread looting of artefacts destined for the inter- national market. Although there have been attempts to regulate military destruction of cultural property, any countries rich in archaeological of recent market reforms, there has been a sharp primarily through the Hague Conventions, civilian loot- resources have laws vesting ownership increase in looting. Government regulation has been ing is another story. When the Iraq National Museum of all unexcavated artefacts in the state, criticised as too decentralised, leading to conflicting was looted by Iraqi civilians, many blamed the US Mand forbidding their unauthorised export. Due to the and unpredictable laws. Furthering the confusion is for failing to provide protection and for its continuing high demand by collectors for ancient art objects, China’s system of determining an object’s level of failure to control the widespread pillaging of archaeo- and the exorbitant profits to be made by those who protection based on its subjective value. In light of the logical sites. Though blame may be justifiable on moral can supply them, many ‘source’ countries have huge US market for Chinese antiquities and China’s grounds, under generally accepted interpretations suffered extensive looting and consequent loss of recent efforts to improve its regulatory scheme and of both codified and customary international law, their cultural heritage. The annual illegal trade has prosecute looters, its request to the US for import an invading power is only obligated to prevent its been valued at between US $150 million and $2 restrictions under the UNESCO Convention may own violations against cultural property, and those billion, and attempts to regulate the market at both be granted. of state actors, not those of private individuals. Even the international and domestic level have met with When seeking restitution, the party making the the more recent 2nd Protocol to the 1954 Hague limited success. claim often bears the burden of proof to show that Convention does not explicitly require prevention of The 1970 UNESCO Convention and complementary an object was stolen, a particularly difficult task when looting by individuals. 1995 Unidroit Convention attempted to create a legal it comes to antiquities. Objects whose existence was Given that most looters are impoverished locals, framework for prohibiting the export of stolen cultural previously unknown do not show up in databases and the ‘middlemen’ selling to dealers often receive property and providing restitution measures. But the of stolen art, and their ownership history can be enormous profits, future efforts to halt the illicit trade provisions apply only to ratifying states, and the nature more easily forged. Notions of fairness and common in antiquities should focus on the reduction of willing and extent of any legal remedy depends ultimately on sense are not always taken into consideration. After buyers. For example, in the US, museums and their the details of each state’s implementing legislation. decades of disagreement over ownership rights to donors often get generous tax breaks. To increase Where the law falls short, self-regulation by museums, the Euphronios Krater, the Metropolitan Museum buyer diligence and discourage illegal sales, it has auction houses, and dealers should theoretically fill of Art has finally agreed to return the unique 5th been suggested that full disclosure of purchase the gaps. The International Council of Museums’ century BCE (Before the Common Era) bowl to Italy transactions be required in order to receive tax Code of Professional Ethics sets out standards of as part of a loan-exchange programme. Throughout benefits. Another solution is to impose criminal liability conduct, including the duty to ascertain the origin the negotiations, the museum insisted that Italian on anyone who knowingly acquires stolen cultural and legal status of an object prior to acquisition. authorities must provide incontrovertible proof that property, as the UK has done. Perhaps the best Unfortunately, adherence to such codes is voluntary the Krater had been illegally excavated and exported suggestion is for museums to impose a moratorium and transparency is still lacking in many transactions. – althought there had been years of widespread on collecting, focusing instead on establishing loan Those in favour of unregulated trade often point suspicion over its origins, even among museum staff and exchange programmes, which could contribute out that source countries are not doing enough themselves. Had Italian authorities not managed to to educational and conservation efforts in source within their own borders to prevent smuggling, and, acquire photographs and documentation linking the countries. Such actions would have the effect of indeed, the UNESCO Convention requires state Krater to a smuggling operation, the outcome may discouraging the most lucrative section of the market, parties to take steps to protect their resources. have been different. Regardless, the loan-exchange and may afford source countries time to concentrate For example, China has some of the world’s most concept could be a viable solution to disputes over their efforts on domestic solutions. extensive archaeological resources, and as a result poorly documented objects. The desire to acquire and possess the art and artefacts of other cultures has been around for centuries, and although such treasures have been obtained by many means, the spotlight on the illicit trade in antiquities has never been brighter. Given the extent of the problem, and the ephemeral nature of public attention, the time for change is ripe. n

Julie Masal (MA International History 1993) is an attorney in Washington, DC. She specialises in providing contract research and writing services. For more information, see SAFE at www.savingantiquities.

BEBETO MATTHEWS/EMPICS org For more on regulation generally, see the Centre for Visitors view the Euphronios Krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, prior to its return to Italy Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at www.lse.ac.uk/ along with 20 other looted artifacts CARR

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 11 The finalists

Last October LSE Careers Service asked final year students to submit a short essay beginning with the words ‘In five years’ time I will be…’? From these entries they selected four finalists to feature on their website and represent the wide range of interests and ambitions of students at LSE. Over the course of their final year the Careers Service has been following their progress as they prepare to graduate and contemplate life after LSE. Two of the finalists,Tom Ketteley and Anne Kroijer, have been keeping a diary.

Tom Ketteley November 2005 om from Essex in the UK is studying What to do upon graduation? The million dollar for a BSc in International Relations. His question. I think I need to cast my net wide. So long term career goal is to establish a I’m considering: Tcharity providing support for refugees. With this in mind, Tom has started focusing on his • postgraduate study in forced migration/ short term objectives. international affairs • Teach First, a teaching scheme which In five years’ time… would give me some valuable transferable …I will be establishing a charitable organisa- experience with the added benefit of a tion operating throughout the European Union, teaching qualification at the end providing support for refugees during the asylum • the Civil Service Fast Track, which could application process. Having worked for the Home catapult me right into formulating asylum policy Office on implementing a programme of asylum • perhaps a few traditional graduate schemes policy harmonisation following EU directives, I will have sufficient experience to begin this independ- • internships and NGOs working with or ent organisation. for refugees – but I do need to start having Although practical exposure will have provided an income me with the most useful initial experience, it will Up until now I’ve avoided the Careers Service be further academic study which allows me to but, as it is my final year, I realise I need to start conceptualise in full the difficulties facing agencies making use of their resources. I am keen to get working with refugees. advice on how to create an initial impact and want Starting work life as an intern, perhaps in the to talk with a careers adviser so they can give me Refugee Council or similar body, I will have moved some tips on this. I’m also looking out for useful quickly on to the payroll. Sampling employment in seminars and events. Lots to be getting on with! a range of bodies dealing with refugees will have allowed me to explore best practices and develop ideas before starting out independently.

12 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I December 2005 on an application form, drafting responses or Student Tutoring scheme and establishing a voluntary doing research. It is so easy to forget that you are organisation, I hope to be allocated to a placement I have written and submitted an application for at LSE to study and not to be on the milk round. where I can gain relevant professional international TeachFirst. First one down! I got it in a day before I just hope I start getting some offers soon. Any experience for a career involving forced migration. the deadline – so much for being organised! I really tips and hints welcome. Until my detailed placement information comes did not appreciate how long it takes to produce a through I have injections, medicals and training to well crafted application. start and I also need to begin fundraising towards I am really looking forward to a well earned rest my £900 target (any donations welcome!). Things over Christmas but by the end of the break I want March 2006 are really starting to happen… n to have drafted applications for postgraduate stud- In the space of three days I went from having no ies and written letters for the three or four courses future prospects to holding a job offer from Trans- I want to apply for. Watch this space to see if I port for London, a place on VSO’s Youth for De- To find out which country Tom will be stay motivated throughout the festive season… velopment scheme and options for postgraduate working in next year and what he will be study. After initial elation, the reality sank in that I doing, check out the LSE Careers Service needed to decide what is it that I actually want to website at www.lse.ac.uk/careers January 2006 do after LSE. A long weekend of deliberation with Well, so much for drafting application letters over family, friends and myself made me think back to Christmas! That did not happen and most of my why I initially chose to study International Relations free time in January has involved pasting text into at LSE and so, with confidence, I have different application forms. The score so far is: accepted a place on VSO’s Youth for Development scheme. With • Teach First – rejected my previous experiences such • Civil Service Fast Track – through to an e-tray as living and working in a refugee exercise (do you know what that will involve? centre, mentoring on the LSE/BP I don’t!) • Transport for London – still waiting to hear back • VSO Youth for Development scheme – invited to an assessment day Some positive signs but not great considering that my friends who are applying for consultancy and banking all seem to be signing contracts at the moment. Most of us who want to save the world seem to be having a difficult time finding paid work! So, in an attempt to start hedging my bets, I have asked my tutor and a class teacher for some references for postgraduate studies. The perfect fall-back option.

February 2006 Eight minutes to decide how to turn a pile of Anne Kroijer newspapers, a pair of scissors, a ruler and a nne from Copenhagen in stapler into pretend journalists’, notepads with Denmark is studying for 13 pages. I don’t think the Youth for Development an MSc in Local Economic scheme offers the standard assessment day – not Development.A Her long term career only because of the Blue Peter vibe but because I goal is to work within economic quite enjoyed myself. Having said that, the personal development. She is looking to The practical steps I take over the next five years questioning about your character traits made the work in organisations such as development will be key to establishing the foundations for actual interview difficult. banks or private sector companies which achieving this ambitious legacy and a critical fac- A big dilemma beforehand had been how to dress invest in emerging markets. tor will be my ability to influence others. Hence, for a ‘smart casual’ day. I ended up wearing smart my lack of confidence if I can’t persuade you to black trousers, an open necked shirt and jumper In five years’ time... select me with this concise and compelling essay. although it seemed most others thought trainers, ... I will be a hopeless dropout if you do not select t-shirts and ripped jeans were sufficient! me as one of your winners. However, if you do I’ve also had my first telephone interview – a 45 select me, it is entirely probable that I will go on November 2005 minute interrogation by Gary at Transport for London. to become a leading light in the field of develop- After LSE I can see myself working in a wide He didn’t seem too interested in my stories about refu- mental economics. range of areas. I am currently looking at entry level gees. I had spent the evening before doing research. My home country, Denmark, has one of the positions in the private and public sectors. My My friends are bored with my tube statistics. It can lowest levels of income disparity of any nation only get worse for them if I actually get the placement on earth. My personal goal is to be instrumental immediate goal is to find a job where I can develop on the Contract and Procurement scheme! in ensuring that in my lifetime more than 50 per and test my skills in a challenging and interna- The biggest problem with searching for a job is cent of nations worldwide attain the same low level tional environment. I hope to use my Spanish/ the time it takes. Each day I seem to be working as Denmark had in 1980, the year I was born. Scandinavian language skills. I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 13 The finalists

I am making the most of the Careers Service and March 2006 the support that it offers. I have recently had a CV and cover letter check. Coming from Denmark I Got a job offer with investment banking. Was find it useful to get advice on the UK format of a quite an intimidating interviewing process – no CV and covering letter. I am looking out for career idea how I survived the one interview where ratios events on the website and signing up for relevant were thrown at me with only sec- skills sessions. I also had a practice interview (prior onds to answer. It feels good to my first real one), which proved very useful; though to have something being interviewed with two other students meant lined up for next year. Am still we could all share interview tips and techniques. looking at other opportunities, particularly within development. I have found some interesting December 2005 programmes, for example, at the Overseas Development I’m finding the application process extremely de- Institute and the International manding but so far my job hunting is going well. In Labour Organization, working two weeks I have had four interviews and two tests. with local economic develop- I am going to a third round interview after Christmas. ment. Most positions, howev- Fingers crossed that practice makes perfect! er, are internships, and I have With the end of term approaching what I am decided not to do unpaid work really looking forward to is going home, relaxing next year. Still have some time to make up my and spending Christmas with friends and family. mind – hopefully, I will make the right choice... n

January 2006 To find out what choice Anne made, check out the LSE Careers Service Coming back to the School with tons of energy, I website at www.lse.ac.uk/careers am ready to take on the huge work load. Having thought about dissertation topics and extended essays over the break, I am looking forward to doing more research for my papers. I also have interviews lined up, some of them following on from first round ones before Christmas. One is a final round with an Australian investment bank. I am very interested in this company because of its unique structure. It has its own investment arm with a focus on infrastructure. LSE graduate destinations • In 2003-04 66, per cent of LSE February 2006 graduates went straight into School is going well and I am really enjoying all employment while a quarter went into my courses. My range of interviews is narrowing further study and the rest chose to take down, and I am close to knowing where I want time out to work next year. I have met many knowledge- • Top employers for LSE able people through my interviews and had the graduates: Deutsche Bank, opportunity to find out more about a range of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, companies. The process has made me more Ernst & Young, Home Office, Barclays confident about choosing a direction. Working Capital, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, within investment banking next year could be UBS, United Nations, Bank of England, interesting and would allow me to move into HSBC, an interesting position within development • In 2004, 27.5 per cent of LSE graduates later on. I feel positive about my interviews entered Anne’s chosen field – banking, so far, and am very hopeful that some of financial services and accountancy my applications will be successful. • In the same year, 8.3 per cent of LSE graduates entered Tom’s chosen sector – charities, voluntary sector and trusts • For more facts and figures on graduate destinations, see www.lse.ac.uk/ collections/graduatedestinations

14 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I Watercolour by F Shepherd, 1873, of and Holles Street corner. The original School building occupied the two buildings on the left and the Holles St carriageway; St Clement’s Building is now on the site to the right of the picture CITY OF WESTMINSTER ARCHIVES CENTRE

A CORNER OF LONDON, THE HEART OF THE CAMPUS

What was Clare Market like before LSE? Was Houghton Street always bustling with activity, or once a quiet residential area? George Kiloh has delved into the history of the corner of London where the School now stands, discovering its agricultural and industrial heritage.

here is an odd triangular patch on the St Clement’s Field, that Sir William Holles bought in ‘The first graveyard map of London, bordered by Kingsway, 1531. Holles was from Nottinghamshire and became TAldwych and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It has Sheriff of the City of London and then Lord Mayor in was Street, no collective name although often called Clare 1539. He had already bought his Nottinghamshire on which the hospital, Market. Most of it is occupied by LSE. Over the estate of Haughton from the Stanhope family and course of three centuries the area has moved the name Houghton Street recalls his country house. and later LSE’s Library, from agriculture, to town estate to festering slum, Over the years Holles and his descendants added were built. It became an before being converted into a business district. further property to the estate. The family’s town house, Most of the area which is the footprint of LSE which came to be called Clare House, must have unpleasant plot of land was in the parish of . In the late been enjoyable and convenient for the City and the but it was nothing to the 16th century there were open fields between Drury Court, but an estate so close to both could not escape second, which provoked Lane, Holborn, Lincoln’s Inn and the Strand, though development. By the early 17th century Drury Lane all of these streets were partly developed. It was the was already built up. In the 1630s the Earl of Bedford

a serious scandal’ open 14 acres northwest of the church, known as developed Covent Garden, and by 1659 Lincoln’s Inn t I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 15 PHOTOGRAPHS 1-4 FROM THE LSE ARCHIVES REPRODUCED BY KIND PERMISSION OF CITY OF LONDON, LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES

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1. The Old Curiosity Shop, Portsmouth Street, c1905 Fields was almost surrounded by houses. Buildings It became an unpleasant plot of land but it was 2. , c1905, after the great clearance – the approached the borders of the estate on every side. nothing to the second, beneath the Enon Chapel, entrance to Houghton Street is just visible on the left In 1637 the family determined on a pattern of which provoked a serious scandal. In 1822 the 3. Houghton Street/New Inn Passage, 1902 development that would yield substantial rents Enon Chapel was built across the southern end 4. No 3 Houghton Street, 1903: this is more or less from what had become a very desirable patch of of the continuation of Grange Court, just a little where Wright’s Bar is today. The building to the right is the Red Lion, demolished to make way for the land – by the 1650s there were 86 new houses north of where it joins St Clement’s Passage, at entrance to the Old Building and a chapel, and several streets between 30 and the top of the steps down to today’s Towers. 5. Watercolour by TG Fraser of Portsmouth Street, 40 feet wide. Much of the estate was sold in the In addition to conducting services and Sunday mid-19th century, at the corner of Gilbert Passage, late 1780s, in 94 separate lots. schools, the minister buried the local dead – but showing the George the Fourth pub From the early 18th century Clare Market went he did so underneath the floorboards. The chapel into rapid decline. The decaying houses were rented was not a large building, so almost certainly the out, first to the poor, and then to the very poor who, number disposed of did not reach the 12,000 in the days when there was no public transport, claimed by a contemporary writer. However, it is needed to be near the City and Westminster for also reported that vaults were cleared out from whatever trade and employment they could find. time to time and the remains disposed of in the There was overcrowding, disease and poor mainte- Thames. Complaints were many and forthright, nance: as the years went by, the houses fell down. and associated with claims that the smells created Only one house from the early period is left, the Old disease. Despite regular clearances of the Enon Curiosity Shop in Portsmouth Street, dated 1567, the valuable site of which has somehow survived. corpses it was not long before there was only the The district became notorious. When King’s wooden floor between living and dead. Not even College founded its hospital at the corner of Carey copious use of quicklime could disguise the odour. and Portugal Streets in 1840, the Medical Times It was also held that the dead had not received wrote: ‘If a person well acquainted with London was a Christian burial. The minister made money out desired to name its most unhealthy spot he would of removing burial garments and re-selling them, inevitably fix on that of Clare Market. Flanked by two and burnt coffin wood in his domestic hearth. Like graveyards, offal shops and human piggeries, an old other unscrupulous graveyard keepers, he would building has been selected by the wise and disinter- also have sold off the metal fittings of the coffins. ested managers of King’s College for their hospital.’ In 1835 the chapel ceased to be a place of The first graveyard was Portugal Street, on which worship. In 1844 local commissioners chose a the hospital, and later LSE’s Library, were built. route for a new sewer which lay under the chapel.

16 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I A corner of London

CITY OF WESTMINSTER ARCHIVES CENTRE transport and slum clearance. Demolition be- gan and by 1900 the area was much improved. However, a much bigger scheme was needed and LCC went for the grand gesture. At one point not only was there to be a grand circus like Oxford Circus along Kingsway, but space was to be found for the new county hall. The Council went public on its first scheme in 1895. After considerable discussion a Bill was introduced and the LCC (Improvements) Act was passed in 1899 setting out the development as we now know it. It gave LCC wide powers of compulsory purchase and the result was the greatest improvement scheme in the history of London. Major roads were to be driven through the heart of a residential and busi- ness district, accompanied by the mass demoli- tion of existing property and erasure of the old street pattern. 2 The budget was £5.24 million, of which only £300,000 was for rehousing. Costs were to be recouped by selling the sites at a much higher price, once development had increased their value. There was no budget for rehousing in the Clare Market area because those areas scheduled for demolition were already being emptied under another Act, and at least 3,172 people were (or were shortly to be) removed. Part of the social purpose concerned alcohol. Consistent with the contemporary campaign to reduce the number of public houses, the LCC would takeover and surrender no fewer than 51 licences. 5 The planners were merciless. The two main 4 streets, the Aldwych and Kingsway, were laid out without regard to the existing street pattern: in neither When digging began, the matter came to renewed the railways and buses allowed them to work in case was there an earlier road simply to be widened. official notice but nothing was done. The building the City but live much further away. It is curious to us now that there were very few was taken over by a teacher of dancing, and its Charitable efforts were overwhelmed by demand, objections to the demolition. Major road develop- later uses were as a concert room, a prize-fighting but no doubt in some cases individuals were encour- ments of later years have tended to slice through ring, a casino and a penny theatre. The bodies aged to lift themselves from the mire around them. districts, leaving on either side the sides and backs of remained a few centimetres under the feet of the Many children were rescued from the very worst buildings never meant to be seen and their eventual dancers and fighters. effects of poverty, for example, through the creation replacement subject to no great plan. Aldwych/ By 1847 George Walker, known for campaigning of the home for destitute boys in the Colonnade, now Kingsway was different. The buildings on either side for the closure of inner city graveyards, obtained the site of Cowdray House. were to be faced with stone to present a triumphal possession of the chapel and he arranged for a mass Clare Market remained a rather mixed area. appearance and each carriageway was to be lined exhumation to take place and for a decent burial to Households continued to advertise for servants, with trees. As a result streets were lost, with their be made in what is now . for example, and contemporary directories listed many courts, passages and yards, and Houghton Anyone familiar with Mayhew’s work in report- remarkably specialised trades, such as widows’ Street was shortened. Portugal Street, which had ing the conditions of the poor will see at once cap maker and book spines gilder. There were formerly ceased at its junction with Portsmouth how things must have stood for the inhabitants many public houses and the general character of Street, was driven through to join Kingsway, remov- of this crowded and miserable quarter. They Clare Market was only too obvious. In the 1870s ing narrow and decrepit passages. were housed in the worst possible conditions. the St Clement Danes Magazine reported: ‘I Kingsway and the Aldwych opened in 1905; by A shifting population of the casually employed have seen miseries of poverty and sickness in then LSE had moved into Passmore Edwards Hall was reduced to using the lodging houses which the Roman Ghetto, and in the plague quarter of in Clare Market. n appeared, both recognised and unofficial. Disease Cairo; but there are places in the neighbourhood was rife and the area lacked proper sanitation. of Clare Market that would beat them hollow – very Charitable efforts were made to improve the nightmares of poverty and disease.’ situation. Two well known families connected with St Clement Danes – WH Smith and the Twining The great clearance tea and banking concern – were active in trying to secure schools, libraries, health and religious As traffic and trade increased there was discussion education for the population, but they fought a about better road connections between Holborn George Kiloh was LSE’s academic registrar from 1996 to 2005. More and the Strand. In 1891, following the creation of losing battle. The remaining professional people about the history of LSE’s patch of London land will withdrew into the New Inn and Clements Inn. the London County Council (LCC), this became feature in December’s LSE Magazine. An exhibition and Elsewhere middle class residents moved out, as a priority. The aim was new roads, underground an online record on the LSE website are also planned.

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 17 A Cold War legacy

The Cold War is still generally assumed to have been a contest between two superpowers over military power and strategic control, mostly centred on Europe. Arne Westad, however, argues that the most important aspects of the Cold War were neither military nor strategic, nor Europe-centred, but connected to political and social development in the Third World.

n a historical sense, the Cold War was a con- James C Scott (following David Harvey) has called tinuation of colonialism through slightly different ‘high modernism’, defined, in Harvey’s terms, as Imeans. As a process of conflict, it centred on ‘the belief in linear progress, absolute truths, and control and domination, primarily in ideological rational planning of ideal social orders under stand- terms. The methods of the superpowers and of ardised conditions of knowledge and production… their local allies were remarkably similar to those The modernism that resulted was… positivistic, honed during the last phase of European coloni- technocratic, and rationalistic at the same time as it alism: giant social and economic projects, bring- was imposed as the work of an élite avant-garde of ing promises of modernity to their supporters, planners, artists, architects, critics… The ‘modern- and death, mostly, to their opponents or those isation’ of European economies proceeded apace, who happened to get in the way of progress. while the whole thrust of international politics and For the Third World, the continuum of which trade was justified as bringing a benevolent and the Cold War forms a part did not start in 1945, progressive ‘modernisation process’ to a backward nor even 1917, but in 1878, with the Conference Third World.’ of Berlin that divided Africa between European Colonial control imperialist powers – or perhaps as long ago as As parts of the Third World rebelled against colonial 1415, when the Portuguese conquered their first control around the mid third of the 20th century, African colony. Not even the conflict between the revolutions that followed were often inspired the superpowers, nor its ideological dimension, by either the Soviet or the American form of high was a new element in this longue durée of modernism. In a period of extreme global instability, attempted European domination. it is not surprising that highly ideologised regimes The tragedy of Cold War history, as far such as the United States and the Soviet Union as both the Third World and the superpow- opted for intervention in what seemed to be a ers themselves were concerned, was that two zerosum game, unless there were strong domestic historical projects that were genuinely anti-colonial reasons against it. What is more surprising is the in their origins became part of a much older pattern key role local élites played in abetting and facilitat- of domination because of the intensity of their ing these superpower interventions. Marrying their conflict, the stakes they believed were involved, and own domestic purposes to a faith in a common, the almost apocalyptic fear of the consequences if international ideology, many aimed at some form the opponent won. Even though both Washington of superpower involvement from the revolutionary and Moscow remained opposed to formal colo- stage onward. A few of them set agendas – eco- nialism throughout the Cold War, the methods nomic, political, military – that they knew could only they used in imposing their version of modernity be fulfilled through American or Soviet intervention. on Third World countries were very similar to A large number waged war on their own peasant those of the European empires that had gone populations, attempting to force them – sometimes before them, and especially to their immediate in conjunction with foreign interveners – to accept predecessors, the British and centralised plans for their improvement. Perhaps French colonial projects of the even more than the Cold War superpowers to late 19th and early 20th centuries. which they were allied, these Third World élites These methods were centred on viewed the modernisation and ultimate abolition inducing cultural, demographic, and of the peasantry as a supreme aim, the pursuit of ecological change in Third World which justified the most extreme forms of violence. societies, while using military power While one Cold War superpower collapsed, to defeat those who resisted. With the other went on to become the hyperpower of their founding concepts of social justice our times. As is becoming clear from the newly or individual liberty long atrophied into emerging history of the Cold War, it is unlikely self-referential ideologies, the starting that historians of the future will date the emer- point was what the anthropologist gence of the United States as a hyperpower to 18 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I the beginning of the 1990s; indeed, it is likely improvements at home. In ideological terms, the that many will see America as entering this phase only way of breaking the bond between what at the beginning rather than the end of the last Jefferson described as interventionist ‘tastes’ century. From this, it follows that the Cold War and democratic ‘theory’ is probably – as it should era never saw two equal superpowers – one was be in all democratic politics – through appeals to The Cold War distinctly more ‘super’ than the other, even though what serves the country best. It is a debate that Studies Centre at its power was never limitless. America just had America needs now, because as global resistance LSE is the main more of everything: power, growth, ideas, moder- to US interventionism increases, its democratic British centre for nity. The expansion of all of these aspects of the practices will come under increasing pressure at advanced study United States is one important part of the history home. Without a genuine reorientation of its foreign and research of the Cold War, domestically and internationally. policy, American democracy may end up suffering on the Cold War, its historical origins and Karl Marx was right in foreseeing the United States the same fate as Soviet socialism. contemporary repercussions. becoming the main revolutionary power of the 20th At the end of the Cold War, about one out of It offers: century, a power that would sweep long-established four of the world’s inhabitants lived in areas with economic, political, and cultural patterns before it on improving standards of living. Today, the lucky few • a range of public lectures each term, including its way to global supremacy. It transformed trade number less than one out of six, and the difference the recent America as Another Country series, and financial markets, creating a new form of world between the numbers is increasing rapidly. In and the Gilder Lehrman American History economy. It defeated its enemies – , Japan, the long run, it will be impossible for a dwindling series, see www.lse.ac.uk/events the Soviet Union – while setting the terms for the privileged minority to impose its economic, polit- • the LSE-Peking University MSc Double democratic revolutions that reshaped their politics ical, and military fiat worldwide. Unless there is a Degree in International Affairs. This and societies. It inspired fundamental changes inside reversal of the processes of impoverishment, the new double degree is an outstanding and among its European allies, helping to do away impoverished majority will begin to turn the tables opportunity for graduate students and young with privileges and social obedience, and create more on the United States and the pan-European world, professionals. The first year is spent at the open societies, while assisting in a process of transna- through intervening in its affairs in the same way School of International Studies at Peking tional integration. It created a new form of audiovisual as it has – over centuries – intervened in theirs. In University, studying the international relations culture and patterns of consumption stimulated by this context, the crime against the people in the of China and the Asia Pacific region. The it. And the US created the Third World, by repeated Twin Towers of New York City was no bigger, or second year is spent at LSE, studying in both interventions, by its need for raw materials, and – first smaller, than those committed against the peoples the International Relations Department and and foremost – by its vision of development. of Luanda or Kabul during the Cold War. In light of the Department of International History the history of the recent past, the greatest shock And the Soviet collapse? The political costs of • Each year the Centre joins the University of 11 September 2001 may have been where it continued involvement in Africa, Asia, and Latin of California – Santa Barbara and George happened, not the murderous act itself. America were disastrous at a time when people in Washington University in organising a Much of the future may therefore depend on Moscow and other cities were beginning to count conference on Cold War topics for graduate how we revise our actions in order to reduce the their own part of each expense within a declining students from around the world economy. The Afghanistan war became the symbol potential for violent conflict. If there is one big See www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CWSC of these expenses, in lives as well as resources. lesson of the Cold War, it is that unilateral military The Soviet leaders who had brought about the intervention does not work to anyone’s advan- intervention were, by the end of the 1980s, seen tage, while open borders, cultural interaction, and as fools or knaves, and the critique of the war and fair economic exchange benefit all. This is not a the way it had been fought undermined the faith pacifist argument – I believe firmly in the right to The Global Cold many people had had in the Soviet state. self-defence when attacked. But it is an argument War: Third World which recognises that in a world that is becoming Unnecessary wars interventions and the increasingly diverse ideologically at the same time making of our times Together with the economic decline, the Chernobyl as communications tie us closer together, the only Odd Arne Westad nuclear disaster, and the revolutions in Eastern way of working against increased conflict is by Europe, the image of having fought unnecessary stimulating interaction while recognising diversity, Cambridge University wars and supported unviable regimes destroyed and, when needed, acting multilaterally to forestall Press 486pp £19.66 h/b the legitimacy of the Soviet government, creating disastrous events. The Cold War remains a dire This book shows how the globalisation of an impression of unending mismanagement and example of what the world looks like when the the Cold War during the last century created failure. When the servants of the Kremlin had to opposite happens and regimes of global inter- the foundations for most of the key conflicts decide where they stood during the coup attempt vention take hold. n we see today, including the war on terror. in August 1991, they themselves deserted the It focuses on how the Third World policies CPSU in droves just for these reasons. of the two 20th century superpowers – the Can there be an end to American intervention- United States and the Soviet Union – gave ism? Unlikely, but not impossible. Despite some rise to resentments and resistance that in exceptional periods, the United States has been the end helped topple one and still seriously an interventionist power for most of its existence, and its emergence as global hyperpower has challenge the other. Ranging from China to made this into a permanent state of affairs. But , Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba and there is also another America, symbolised by the Nicaragua, the author explores both the resistance to the war in Vietnam, the protests Professor Arne Westad development of interventionist ideologies against intervention in Central America, and the is professor of international history and co-director of the and the revolutionary movements that Cold War Studies Centre. He was awarded the 2006 opposition to the invasion and occupation of confronted interventions. Bancroft Prize for his book The Global Cold War (Cambridge Iraq. This anti-interventionist fringe is strongest University Press, 2005). This is the first time the prize has when it can demonstrate how wars abroad defeat been given to a book on international history since 1957.

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 19 A brief encounter with Sudoku

You either do it every day, or you’re wondering what all the fuss is about. If you happen to be one of the minuscule minority that has not heard of a Sudoku, here’s the lowdown from Gautam Appa, Kai Helge Becker and Katerina Papadaki of LSE’s Operational Research Department.

Sudoku is a number puzzle spreading New Zealander working in Hong Kong for the called Group Theory people have worked out round the world faster than a virus. You British authority, discovered Sudoku he wrote that there are about 7x1021 (7 followed by 21 A are given a 9x9 square – nine rows a computer programme to set the puzzle and zeros) of them. Mind you, that does not stop and nine columns – forming 81 cells. The showed it to The Times in London, which repetitions. For any one Sudoku, there are square is further divided up into nine smaller published the first one in November 2004. about a billion lookalikes obtained, for example, 3x3 squares that we shall call bricks. Some This started the fad in the UK that has spread by rotating the square or swapping numbers. In of the 81 cells are filled with numbers from 1 more widely round the world than cricket. fact deciding whether two Sudoku puzzles are essentially the same is a much more difficult to 9. Your job is to fill all the empty squares in How long can this craze last? After all, how problem to solve than solving either Sudoku. such a way that each row, each column and many different 9x9 Sudoku squares can there each brick ends up with all nine numbers – see be? Like the 3x3 game of noughts and crosses, How do you solve them efficiently? Logic helps. the Sudoku puzzle at the end of this article. can’t we work out all possible puzzles and Try the exercise below and test your skills. Where was it invented? Well, history is never worry about something else? Well, not easily. Check on the LSE Alumni Relations website straightforward. In alphabetical order, Germany, Using an esoteric branch of mathematics for the answer at www.lse.ac.uk/alumni n Japan, New Zealand, UK and the US can lay a claim. The first completed 9x9 Sudoku grid Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 Col 4 Col 5 Col 6 Col 7 Col 8 Col 9 Try this appeared in a 1956 German language article by 6 9 2 Behrens, not as a solution to a number puzzle Can you find a way to prove that X = 1 in this Sudoku but as a ‘gerechte’ (meaning fair) experimental 5 7 9 design for analysing the effectiveness of crop without entering any other treatments in areas of good and poor fertility. missing numbers? Working 2 8 What we know as a Sudoku was set by an only with where in each brick (3x3 grids indicated by bold American architect, Howard Garns, and 4 3 7 started appearing from 1979 in the American lines) number 1 can possibly go, you should be able to magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games 1 4 under the title ‘Number Place’. Then in 1984 deduce that the number in Row 7 and Col 9 which is labelled X they appeared in the Japanese firm Nikoli’s 2 1 9 magazine under the name of ‘suji wa dokushin equals 1. The process requires considering every single brick ni kagiru’ meaning single (as in unmarried) 5 6 numbers. Afterwards, Nikoli patented it in and yet it is not possible to X the shortened name – Sudoku, so that later fill any other cell with a 1. Japanese imitators called it by other names. 1 8 3 So, what the rest of the world calls Sudoku is known to many in Japan by its English name 6 5 4 – ‘Number Place’. When judge Wayne Gould, a

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20 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I Rodent’s rambles

been some muttering about her use of the The academic Olympics marking programme Graders R Us which, it is suggested, has given her an unfair advantage over those who do not resort to artificial aids. But success will always attract the envious and the carping, and until the International Pedagogic Committee rules that such programmes count as Category A Software, we are safe. A fillip from the internet is no different in principle from an extra layer of cork in your running ...and he’s cleared shoes, and is quite unlike the deplorable the hedge fund! He’s sidestepped the example of Simony College Oxford, whose chief hostile questions!... hope in the 50 minutes seminar competition was found to have packed his audience with loyal and dependent students who were ready with a fillip of flattering questions. He has, quite properly, been rusticated from international conferences for four terms, and will be subject, before he is allowed to compete again, to random tests on his seminars with unannounced hostile questions from a hit squad of undercover discourse theorists. One weak spot in the School’s likely team is the 59 minutes committee chair event. The trial courses have a high level of obstacles, hurdles, and jumps to be negotiated prior to the one minute before the hour finish, and the distractions of ‘can I query item four in the draft minutes’, ‘I know we Come on, the beaver! made a decision in principle last term, but I think we have to judge the present case on its merits’, Grantfodder have derailed a lot of promisingly smooth sprints rocks through the agenda. Most hazardous of all so far has been the notorious ‘I’m sure Professor Grantfodder means well, but he would need to know as much about the matter as I do before we could take his views seriously’, a hedge, or water-jump, which can swiftly sweep the entire 66.18 discussion off the course and into the ditch of Professor Grantfodder 4.00 vituperation and complaint, whilst the competitor for chair of the week can only weakly bang his spoon on a glass and call for restraint. But an area where the School does have LSE, at the turning point between Westminster intellectual events to the sprints, long-jumps, high hopes is the international spring vacation and the city, Whitehall and the law courts, the hurdles and javelins. The ten and fifteen minutes conference stakes. For the purposes of the South Bank and the Barbican, has always been student counselling hurdles, the four and twenty competition, the vacation is limited to one at the whirling centre of things, placed at the heart learned journal article peer reviewing relay, month, and Dr Jerome ‘Third’ Weigh has already of government, politics, the law, commerce and and the shortest reference with the strongest notched up an impressive six conferences in the arts, a busy market place for every manner of recommendation throw, will each test both three continents in the first two and a half weeks. cultural and intellectual exchange. aspiring academics and old hands. The policing of this event is rigorous, and several would-be champions have already received The recent blossoming of sculpture on campus There are some bright prospects already, their yellow cards for claiming attendance at is only the latest flowering of this rich diversity. particularly amongst the younger competitors conferences where they did no more than collect a But now, with the choice of London for the 2012 who are not yet so well known to the academic free biro from a publisher’s stand. But true sporting Olympics, we can add a further prime location sporting public. I was privileged the other values will triumph, and we all look forward to to our list. Mens sana in corpore sano, a healthy morning to see some of the School’s young cheering on our team with the old cry ‘Come on, mind in a healthy body, reminds us that there is hopefuls in training. Birgit Puffzapper is a rising the Beaver. Beavers don’t give a dam.’ n more to sporting excellence than leg muscles star in the essay turnaround stakes, and has and strong shoulders. already achieved an astonishing 36 hours for The mens is as important as the corpus, and so the complete reading, grading, commenting LSE is already in training for the competitions on, and return of a trial batch of 25 first year which will, for the first time in 2012, add undergraduate psychology essays. There has Rodney Barker

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 21 Letters to the editor

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everything that Geoffrey said, one could not but feel mesmerised by the sheer brilliance of the communicating skills of the man and he noted that I had been to LSE. Had I been a his clear and penetrating grasp of the subject student leader, he asked. I replied ‘Yes, I led the he was discussing, more so if it was on jazz band’. He roared with laughter and ordered international communism, on which he was me to join the band to play at a dance in the an authority. I remember him as a powerful Officer’s Mess the following Saturday. Many such and vibrant presence in the Department which had luminaries such FS Northedge, Geoffrey Saturday nights followed, making a very welcome Goodwin, Michael Leifer, Adam Roberts, Paul break from routine Royal Signals duties. Taylor and James Mayall. LSE and the world of I still play, though now mainly classical flute. international relations scholarship is the poorer Fred Brook in his passing. I am certain that his academic (BSc Econ 1957) contributions and his memories will keep Northumberland, UK Emerging light-headed from one of my early Geoffrey Stern alive for many years to come. tutorials with Mr Stern, a wise old sage of Dr Purusottam Bhattacharya the International Relations Department noted the look of awe on my face and observed: (BSc International Relations 1974) Keep it up ‘Congratulations young man! You have just met Calcutta, India The Winter 2005 edition of the LSE Magazine The Mercurial Mover!’ ‘Mercurial Mover sir?’ I arrived in today’s post and I have just read Fred responded quizzically. ‘Yes, I mean Geoffrey I was saddened to hear of the death of Geoffrey Halliday’s article on terrorism and religion during – he is the one who moves mercurially. Good Stern. I met him through one of his American my post-prandial break. I just wanted to thank day to you.’ My first meeting with Geoffrey undergraduate students, Jane Kranzler (Meyer) you very much indeed for it. It was worth the was as a wide eyed undergraduate back in – I spent more of my time with economists, whole issue. Seldom have I read such sane September 1988. Little did I know that I was to but Jane spoke very highly of Geoffrey. At receive his ‘intellectual caviar’ by the net load, the request of his family, I have made a small comments on the topic. Keep up the good work! first as an undergraduate student, second as donation to UNICEF’s relief fund for the South Michael Ponsford a postgraduate tutee and third as a three-time Asia earthquake. (BSc Econ 1964) academic research assistant to Mr GH Stern... Newton Rose Hoevels, Germany On reflection, I believe that the moniker of The (Research Student 1962-63) Mercurial Mover is the one that captures best the essential Geoffrey. Eleanor Farrar Haydon Judd (BSc International Relations 1991, Geoffrey and jazz Dr Eleanor Farrar (PhD International Relations Dip World Politics 1994) Two letters in LSE Magazine, vol 17 no 2 – both 1952) (Obituaries, LSE Magazine, winter 2005) London, UK about music, though of different genres – prompt was also a founder of the American Friends of me to tell readers my experience. I played clarinet LSE and a very active member of its board for in the LSE jazz band, The Clare Market Stompers, many years. Geoffrey Stern’s was the first lecture I attended from 1955 to 1957. Friday night at the Three Tuns AFLSE has now changed its name to ‘Alumni as an undergraduate back in October 1994 was our regular spot, for which we were rewarded and Friends of the LSE in the United States’ in the Old Theatre, after a stint of training as with free beer. From time to time Geoffrey Stern a conscript soldier. Tired of military discipline, turned up and sat at the piano. We played a mix but remains extremely active in strengthening I was searching for intellectual stimulation, of New Orleans Trad and Chicago Dixieland. the network of LSE alumni in the USA for and his lecture was certainly a breath of much Geoffrey played music of a different era. One of his professional, academic, career and social needed fresh air. He delivered his lectures with tricks was to switch keys from our regular B flat, purposes, awarding scholarships and humour, enthusiasm and passion, although E flat and F to one with lots of sharps, just to keep supporting the School’s development efforts never failing to show others that he was boss us awake. He was an imp, but he always returned with special events and chapter-related while he lectured. I shall miss him. to our keys for the final ensemble. activities. Membership is open to all former Chung Kiat (CK) Soh Fellow jazzmen were: Jack Maddox and Brian students, faculty, and friends of the AFLSE, of (BSc International Relations 1997) Deacon (trombone), Dick Betteridge (cornet), all nationalities. The website is very useful for Vancouver, Canada Les Bradshaw (trumpet), David Fewtrell (banjo finding out more about events and discount and guitar), Colin Boulter and Alan Pizzey (bass) subscriptions, see www.aflse.org and Joe (?) on the drums. Stern’s passing brought back vivid memories Ann Imlah Schneider of the man and his qualities as a teacher and a Straight after LSE I was conscripted into the (PhD International History 1963) human being. Though one did not agree with Army. During a routine interview with my CO Past AFLSE president 22 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I LSE news

LSE CHOICE Alcoa Foundation This year the School launched the LSE fellows CHOICE programme. Following the launch of Alcoa Foundation’s Funded by The Sutton Trust, The Goldman Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Sachs Foundation and private donors, this Programme in October 2005 (LSE Magazine, began in February with 96 students and 18 winter 2005), the first two Alcoa Foundation parents in attendance. fellows have been appointed and are in place LSE CHOICE is aimed at identifying the most in the Centre for Environmental Policy and talented young people from London state Governance. Alcoa Foundation’s Conservation schools and colleges and giving them the tools and Sustainability Fellowship Programme is a Identity cards they need to apply successfully to LSE and unique $8.6 million signature programme to When a group of academics based across LSE other competitive universities. LSE CHOICE advance knowledge in the field of conservation departments produced their academic analysis will enable 150 students per year from under and sustainability through fellowships to of the UK’s proposals for introducing a national represented and non-traditional backgrounds to outstanding academics and practitioners from identity scheme, based around biometrics and be encouraged to aspire to further study at LSE non-governmental organisations. a centralised database, no one anticipated the and other leading universities. Dr Joan O’Mahony began impact this work would have on the national her fellowship in November The first group of students were given an 2005 and is working closely policy debate on the issue. introduction to LSE and to the CHOICE with Dr Michael Mason, programme director, and Research coordinator for the Identity Project, Dr programme before going on a tour of the Professor Andy Gouldson, Edgar Whitley, Information Systems, said: ‘The campus and then registering with IT and the University of Leeds. She has first report, issued in June 2005, highlighted a BSc and PhD in Sociology Library. Finally they met their fellow students in (2003) from LSE and, before a number of concerns with the proposals, their subject class and were introduced to the joining the programme, including the likely costs and the high risk of teachers who will take them through the first held a two year Leverhulme implementing the system. Fellowship at LSE’s Centre four academic Saturday sessions. for Analysis of Risk and Regulation. Joan’s research With the Home Office refusing to release its own examines policy networks of corporations and non- Initial feedback from the teachers was extremely state actors at the international and global level and detailed figures, citing reasons of commercial positive, with many commenting on the the challenges that such networks pose to traditional sensitivity, the likely costs of the scheme commitment and enthusiasm of the students. ideas of corporate governance. became a major political issue. The LSE report’s This programme builds on the success of the LSE Dr Ladina Caduff began her upper estimate of £19 billion over ten years for fellowship in March 2006 and Saturday schools, which were also funded by The the total cost of the scheme was extensively will be working with Dr Eric quoted in the media and in Parliament.’ Sutton Trust and The Goldman Sachs Foundation. Neumayer. She graduated in political science and As the Bill progressed through Parliament, the economic and social history from the University of Zurich Identity Project released a series of further reports in 2001 and received her and all-party briefings on various aspects of the PhD from the University of proposals. LSE director Howard Davies wrote Zurich in 2004. In 2003-04 she was a research fellow at to the prime minister when the objectivity of the the Massachusetts Institute research was called into question in Parliament, of Technology’s Centre having previously published a statement to the for International Studies. Her research interests include risk regulation, European and US regulatory press and public when the researchers were policies, science and technology policy, and the branded as ‘mad’ and ‘technically incompetent’. political economy of transatlantic trade. In March 2006, after the prospect of a major constitutional crisis between the House of Commons and the on the issue Manpower Human Resources Lab of compulsory enrolment, the Identity Cards Act The School has a new European research Professor Van Reenen said: ‘The establishment was finally passed. laboratory, the Manpower Human Resources of the Manpower HR Lab is a significant Dr Whitley said ‘We very much stand by our Lab, based at the Centre for Economic contribution to the development of human findings about the risks of implementing the Performance (CEP). resources research at LSE and we are looking scheme. The Identity Project will be watching the forward to working with Manpower as an The Manpower HR Lab will conduct research implementation of the scheme with interest now industry partner. The first year will conclude into the impact of HR on public policy and government has begun the process whereby all with a working conference and will offer the productivity at corporate, national and global UK citizens will have to register their biometrics on opportunity for practitioners, academics and levels under the direction of Professor John Van the National Identity Register.’ policy makers to come together and share Reenen, CEP director, and Professor Stephen To read the reports and briefings from the LSE theoretical analysis, and industry experience Machin, CEP research director. Identity Project, see http://is2.lse.ac.uk/IDcard with the Lab’s research findings.’ I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 23 GRIMSHAW 1 Taking shape – the new academic building

The School is working with architects Nicholas named spaces such as state of the art classrooms, Grimshaw and Partners Ltd to transform the building academic floors and lecture theatres. on the corner of Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Kingsway One such donor is Naomi Hass-Perlman (LLB into a landmark building for teaching and research 1976), Campaign Committee member. She said: (see LSE Magazine, summer 2005). ‘I am delighted that the LSE has this opportunity LSE’s New Academic Building (pictures 1 and 2) to offer its diverse student body the best possible will create an innovative and highly effective academic environment for studying. Many LSE students environment for our students, academic staff and go on to make a real difference in the private, executive partners. The building is representative public and NGO-related law sectors. I believe a of a campus-wide process of change. As a result, 21st century environment of academic excellence LSE will be able to double teaching space, increase will profoundly impact upon their ability to affect student numbers from 7,000 to 9,500 and create change in our troubled world.’ ‘The School is always purpose built departmental and teaching space for The School is always grateful to those who grateful to those who the Law and Management Departments. are able to show their concern for LSE’s future The School’s governors and executive leaders are through private investment. To learn more about are able to show delighted that alumni and friends from Thailand, Greece, philanthropic opportunities associated with their concern for Switzerland, Singapore, Russia, Hong Kong, the US the New Academic Building, and to meet the and the UK have shown a commitment to improving School’s leaders, please contact Mary Blair, LSE’s future through the student experience. As part of the Campaign for director of development, tel: +44 (0)207 955 private investment’ LSE, leadership donations are being recognised through 6048, email: [email protected] 24 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I LSE news

Rooms and residences There is also change and progress with the School’s halls of residences. Passfield Hall reopens this summer after major refurbishment. The building has been home to many LSE students over the years, and as part of the refurbishment, we are looking to hear your memories of Passfield – memories such as these of Geoffrey H Rudd (BSc Econ 1961). He recalls: ‘My period at Passfield was from 1959-61. The Passfield rent was higher, but it included evening meals which, as I always seemed to be hungry, far and away outweighed the – initially – cheaper cost of Grenville Street. Furthermore, Passfield was considerably warmer, the ratio of persons to toilet/bathroom was comfortably less, there was a lounge furnished with the newspapers of the day, and a bar open on Saturday nights.’ Email your Passfield memories to alumni@lse. ac.uk, and see www.lse.ac.uk/alumni for more contributions by Geoffrey Rudd and others. GRIMSHAW 2 As well as Passfield, there are three new residences for today’s students. Grosvenor House (pictured below 4 and 5) in Drury Lane was converted from a Victorian office building into a purpose-built residence, and welcomed its first residents in September 2005. The residence is unique within LSE accommodation in that all of its 169 rooms are self-contained studios, with private toilet and shower facilities and a mini-kitchen. The hall has already established itself as the most popular LSE residence. Lilian Knowles House in Crispin Street, Spitalfields, is owned and managed for LSE by Shaftesbury Student Housing. This opens in September 2006 when it will be fully on stream to accept 365 students. Northumberland House (picture 3) is a 360 bed student residence next to Trafalgar Square, also 3 set to open in September 2006. A magnificent Grade II listed building, Northumberland House will offer students, and vacation guests, a location at the very heart of the capital.

David Tymms, director of residences, said: ‘The School is delighted to be opening two new residences in world class locations off Trafalgar Square and Broadgate. The additional halls will greatly enhance our ability to provide secure and affordable housing to students seeking institutional accommodation. ‘The £7m refurbishment of Passfield Hall, the LSE’s oldest residence, will transform a much loved Georgian building into something much more fit for purpose in the 21st century, whilst still retaining its essential character. From 2006-07 we will be in a position to offer approximately half of all full-time students a place in halls, a wonderful 4 5 achievement.’ n

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 25 Put LSE ideas to work

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Donors support ground breaking scheme for PhD funding

A diverse mix of top-flight PhD candidates are • LSE provides support for the best PhDs with vital to any world renowned department and assistance for tuition and living expenses alumni and friends are playing a key role in • PhD students gain valuable teaching recruiting high calibre candidates. experience in a supportive environment Led by the Economics Department, several through a teaching assistantship other departments have developed a special • Alumni and friends, departments and PhD Partnership scheme. This three-way the School’s administration engage in a financial partnership involves the School’s senior partnership investing in the next generation administration, leading academic departments, Michael Oughtred (BSc Economics 1982), of intellectual leaders left, greets Economics Department convenor and alumni and friends donors. Professor John Sutton, following Michael’s In this scheme, the School has agreed to The three-way partnership model creates an agreement to fund a PhD Economics waive the tuition fee, the Department pays the annual £11,000 pa stipend for the student by: Partnership Scholarship, valued at £24,000. student for teaching, and the donor contributes • LSE administration absorbing each student’s fees to maintenance costs. The student thus has Mr Oughtred is vice chairman and corporate • LSE departments providing £5,000 through a enough financial support for the three to four development director of the Hull-based teaching assistantship years it takes to complete the PhD. All the company William Jackson & Son Ltd. partners have made a commitment to recruiting • A private donor investing £6,000 a year for PhD Partnership Scholarships allow the top candidates to LSE, regardless of a PhD four years Economics Department to compete with student’s background or means. This scheme is also running in the Accounting US universities which have been able to Benefits of the scheme and Finance Department and will start in offer better scholarship packages and so Sociology in September 2006. • LSE can compete for the best PhD candidates help to recruit the next generation of British on the basis of merit, particularly with North We are grateful to those who have so far academics. The Department of Accounting American universities where PhD support is supported PhD Scholarships and hope that and Finance has a similar scheme. well established others will invest in this special opportunity. For further details on the scheme, please contact Rosie Woodward in the LSE Development Office on +44 (0) 20 7955 7376. Email: [email protected]

New LSE Foundation head

Sue Marks has joined the staff of the LSE Foundation office in New York as executive director, with oversight of the Rasvi Ahmed, BSc Economics, UK Centennial Fund. Stelios Scholars Mahesh Bhadresha, BSc Economics, UK She is immediate past chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou (BSc Econ Industry and , BSc Economics and Jan Witajewski of the Board of Trade 1987) met the first cohort of ten Stelios Economic History, Poland Scholars following a lecture at the School. City Harvest Inc, The Stelios Scholars also visited Stelios at Ameena Yasmin, BSc Economics, UK a prominent New York-based non-profit organisation dedicated to fighting hunger. easyGroup headquarters in January to hear David Hardy, BSc Economics, UK more about his businesses. For 17 years she was an officer of Bankers Manuel Stotz, BSc Geography and Trust Company, New York, a major financial Last year the entrepreneur and founder of the Economics, Germany easyGroup of companies pledged £2 million institution, where she specialised in towards scholarships and financial support for Elena Mezzapesa, BSc Maths and Economics. international transactions. UK and other EU students. In total, around 100 Tom Newman, BSc Economics, Austria She has a BA and MA in Modern History from students could potentially benefit. Part of his , BSc Accounting and Oxford University and an MBA in Finance donation will also enable a teaching room in the Alexandros Mondanos Finance, Greece from Columbia University School of Business, New Academic Building to be developed. and brings a knowledge of British higher The next cohort of ten will start their degrees in Panayiotis Foutros, BSc Accounting and education, board experience, solid business and September 2006. Current Scholars are: Finance, Cyprus management experience to the team.

I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 27 experience with the School of International Honorary awards MPA’s new stream and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University in New York or with Sciences Po in Paris. At December 2005’s presentation ceremonies, LSE’s Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) the School presented an honorary degree to programme is offering a new stream, Public In 2006-07, four students from SIPA at Nobel economist Professor George Akerlof Policy and Management, from autumn 2006. Columbia and two students from Sciences Po will be based at LSE, and seven LSE and an honorary fellowship to emeritus professor The MPA, based in the Government students will study in New York and Paris. of law Carol Harlow QC FBA. Department, currently offers a Public and Professor Akerlof was Economic Policy stream, providing expert 2005 MPA graduate Maria Sicilia Salvadores Cassel Professor with training in economics and methods for decision is based in Paris where she works at the respect to Money and making for those becoming policy analysts and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Banking at LSE 1978-80. policy makers. Development (OECD) as a policy administrator. In 2001 he was named Professor Patrick Dunleavy, director of the MPA She said: ‘I can now see that when I came a joint Nobel winner programme, said: The new MPA represents to LSE after a number of years working in a for his and colleagues’ a quantum leap in the education of future national administration, I had acquired a fairly analyses of markets with public managers at LSE. The first year core limited knowledge on general domestic energy asymmetric information. combines serious economic analysis, public policy. The MPA provided me with both the budgeting and management and awareness Professor Harlow joined theoretical and practical skills to understand a of the political context. The second year LSE in 1976, becoming broader range of policy issues and decisively gives unrivalled ability to specialise in one a professor in 1991. An widened my career perspectives, enabling me area of concentration, drawing on papers expert in administrative to work at an international level – first in London from across the LSE graduate curriculum.’ and community law, she as a regulatory economist for the British energy also served as a member The degree is taught over 21 months; year regulator, and more recently at the OECD, of the Lord Chancellor’s one is a complete academic year and year one of the leading international organisations Advisory Committee on two lasts from October to June. There is also helping democratic governments to respond Tribunals and is the author the option for students to gain ten months to new developments and challenges.’ of numerous books on UK and European law. LSE has conferred six new honorary fellowships, on alumni, former staff and distinguished Conference to honour Bill Phillips governors, to be presented in July 2006. These re-shaping of macroeconomic policy for decades are to: to come. , founder and Sir Robert (Bob) Worcester The conference is being jointly hosted by chairman emeritus of Market and Opinion the New Zealand Association of Economists Research International (MORI) Ltd, who has and the Econometrics Society (Australasian served on LSE’s Court of Governors since 1995. region). Several Nobel prize winners sit on Dato’ Dr Munir Majid (BSc Econ 1971, its International Advisory Board, which is PhD 1978), chairman of Malaysia Airlines headed by Dr Alan Bollard, governor of the and PECD Berhad, a leading Malaysian Reserve Bank of New Zealand, alongside LSE construction company. economist Professor John Sutton. Professor Nicholas Barr, LSE Economics Department, is Dr Rosanna Wong DBE JP (MSc Social Policy on the Programme Committee, while other LSE and Administration 1983), executive director of professors and Economica have supported The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups. She the conference financially, and LSE alumni are was made a Dame Commander of the British A special conference will be held in Wellington, active on the organising committee. Empire in 1997 after a distinguished record of New Zealand, from 9 to 11 July 2008 to honour Today, only a few of the hydraulic models survive, public service. LSE economics professor Bill Phillips. one in the New Zealand Institute of Economic Sir Michael Lickiss (BSc Econ 1955) has been The conference will specialise in fields pioneered Research in Wellington, a second in the UK’s a member of the School’s Court of Governors by Phillips, including stabilisation policy, and some Science Museum. since 1992 and continues to chair a number of of his later interests such as developments in Phillips left London in 1968, holding posts first School committees. He was knighted in 1993 China and other Asian economies. The organisers at Australian National University and then at after a career spanning accountancy, education now wish to hear from LSE alumni who were University of Auckland before his death in 1975, and inward investment. taught or influenced by Phillips. They, and others aged 61. working in fields touched upon by Phillips, are , emeritus Charles Goodhart CBE, FBA welcome to submit papers and attend. Dr Arthur Grimes (MSc Econ 1984, PhD 1987), professor who helped to found, with Professor chairman of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand AWH (Bill) Phillips had already made path-breaking Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at LSE is a member of the conference’s steering contributions in the fields of stabilisation policy and in 1987. From 1997 until May 2000, he was one committee. He said: ‘His legacy in many fields economic modelling when his article ‘The Relation of the outside independent members of the Bank lives on. This conference should prove to be a Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. remarkable event to mark the contributions of a of Money Wage Rates in the , remarkable man.’ Professor Derek Diamond, professor of 1862-1957’ was published in the November 1958 geography, with special reference to urban and issue of LSE’s economics journal Economica. He For conference details, or to contribute regional planning, from 1982 to 1995. regarded this article (a ‘wet weekend’s bit of work’) information on Phillips, please email: arthur. as of only passing interest. Nevertheless, it led to a [email protected]

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Sculptures on campus Eleven sculptures were sited on campus this spring, a donation from Canadian businessman Louis Odette (General Course 1944) and a noted patron of sculptures in public spaces. Professor Sarah Worthington, chair of the School’s Arts Advisory Group, said: ‘The sculptures are a End of a generous gift, negotiated by our previous director Professor Lord Giddens and previous secretary Library era? Dr Christine Challis. We hope students, staff Remember flicking through Library card indexes and the public enjoy seeing these works of art to find the right book? around campus. The School is actively trying to Users may remember with some affection improve the environment and enhance the cultural – or more likely frustration – the skills and tricks dimension for the student experience here.’ needed to be able to track down the book you The sculptures include Eagle (pictured), a were looking for. In the LSE Library’s case, the bronze by A Duquette. For more on the Odette card catalogue represented about 80 years’ sculptures and other LSE arts and music worth of acquisitions dating back to 1896, or projects, see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ about 700,000 books. artsandmusic Libraries began to adopt and embrace computerised housekeeping systems from the 1970s onwards. But large research libraries such as LSE’s were faced with the problem of what to do with the legacy of card-based catalogue Turkish studies records, traditionally housed in ranks of polished wooden cabinets. chair Many major British research libraries still face Afken Holding AS has become the fifth major backlogs. Happily, School staff put the finishing donor to the Chair in Contemporary Turkish touches to our conversion programme in 2005 Studies announced last year (LSE Magazine, and there is now a complete historic catalogue. winter 2005). The Library’s online catalogue is available The company joins the Government of the worldwide 24 hours a day, and now opens up the Republic of , the Central Bank of the entire collection for research resource discovery. Republic of Turkey, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) and www.library.lse.ac.uk the Aydın Dog˘ an Foundation in giving a total of £2.5 million to endow the Chair in perpetuity. Akfen Holding AS was founded by Hamdi The Foyle Foundation Project Akın. The holding company is comprised of 40 companies ranging from construction to The political archives project, funded by • the papers of Sir Gilbert Longden (1902- industry, tourism to trade and service sector, the Foyle Foundation and based in the LSE 1997), a founder member of the One Nation as well as food sectors at home and abroad. Archives, will open up seven political archives to group of Conservative MPs and a participant in Akfen Holding AS has built and manages researchers by producing fully indexed finding the Conservative Group for Europe, the United Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, Izmir Adnan Menderes aids to be available via the Archives Catalogue. Nations and the British Atlantic Committee. Airport, the domestic and international terminals The 500 boxes of previously inaccessible • available from summer 2006, the archive of of Cairo International Airport, and is currently material cover topics including the development Baron Redcliffe-Maud (1906-1982), a public building the new Ankara Esenboga Airport. Mr of local government after World War II, the servant and diplomat whose papers reflect Akın was formerly vice president of Fenerbahçe government administration during World his renown as the chairman of the Royal Football Club and president of TUGIAD, the War II, negotiations and entry into Europe, Commission on Local Government 1966- Young Businessmen’s Association of Turkey. Conservative Party policy and ‘One Nation’ 1969 and Local Government Management conservatism and the advocacy of disability Hamdi Akın and his wife Safak (pictured above) Committee 1964-1967. rights. Of particular interest are: are well known for their charitable work in Over the next two years the project will open Turkey. In 1999, they established the Turkish • the papers of Labour politician Ronald Mackay the archives of the Federal Trust, Andrew Faulds Foundation for Human Resources (TIKAV) in (1902-1960) covering Mackay’s interest in Ankara, which aims to support education and European affairs and involvement in the European (1923-2000), Geoffrey Finsberg (1926-1996) health initiatives and in particular develop the Parliamentary Union, European Movement and and Alfred Morris (1928-). youth potential in Turkey. the in the immediate post-war For more information email Document@lse. period. The papers are an interesting resource ac.uk or visit www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive The Chair was announced in October 2005 by for researchers investigating the UK’s route to Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdog˘ an. It membership of the European Union. will be formally launched in Turkey in June 2006.

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We do not know exactly what makes some Harm and offence in media content: people more vulnerable than others or what the long-term consequences of media use are, a review of the evidence especially for the newer media or for particular types of content. Addressing these issues is the challenge facing media organisations and As the Television without who considered research on television, radio, regulators.’ Frontiers Directive is music, press, film, games, internet, telephony, Professor Sonia Livingstone, professor of social debated again in Europe, advertising as well as the regulation associated psychology in the Department of Media and and new broadcasting with each area. They did not consider the Communications, said: ‘When we’re looking codes are developed benefits or positive effects of any of these in countries including media. at evidence for ‘harm’, it is important not to be the UK and Ireland, the simplistic, for the evidence points to different Andrea Millwood Hargrave said: ‘The debate concepts of ‘harm’ and types of ‘harm’ in different circumstances. But is mainly about the exposure of minors to ‘offence’ are gaining the context of where and when you watch, hear potentially harmful or offensive material, ground. or find this material can also play its part.’ although there are other sensibilities such as This was the focus of a review of evidence by offence or harm caused to those from minority Read more at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ Andrea Millwood Hargrave and Professor groups. We are in a position to draw some pressandinformationoffice/researchexcellence Sonia Livingstone, Social Psychology, conclusions, but there remain many unknowns.

HIV/AIDS and security: fact, fiction and evidence Many observers assume the link between HIV/AIDS, military forces and ‘security’ to be well understood, particularly that between the movement and activities of uniformed services and the epidemic. But evidence for this is patchy say Professors Tony Barnett and Gwyn Prins of LSEAIDS. They found that the HIV/AIDS and security connection has been over-interpreted, and even misinterpreted, in the rush to respond to a perceived threat. See www.lse.ac.uk/ lseaids

Social values and the governance Inherited family firms and of science Half of Europeans, Americans and Canadians management practices are willing to trust scientific experts to make decisions based on scientific evidence to advance technologies. That was the finding, among Inherited family firms that are both owned and for even badly managed family firms to be kept others, of Professor George Gaskell, LSE, managed by family members are typically badly within families. managed, particularly if the chief executive is Edna Einsiedel, University of Calgary, William The research team conducted a massive survey of chosen by ‘primogeniture’ – that is, selecting the Hallman, Rutgers University, Susanna Hornig the management practices of over 730 medium- Jonathan eldest son. Priest, University of South Carolina, sized manufacturing firms in , Germany, Jackson, LSE, and Johannus Olsthoorn, Centre for Economic Joint research by the the UK and the United States. They found, for Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Performance and McKinsey & Company reveals example, that professional CEOs were almost all published in Science magazine. See www.lse. that this is a particular problem for the UK, which between the ages of 45 and 65, while traditional ac.uk/collections/pressandinformationoffice/ has an amazingly high share of family-managed family firms’ CEOs were aged from 21 to 90. The researchexcellence.htm firms, especially those that practice primogeniture. 21 year old took over because the father died The key reason is the UK’s highly generous suddenly, while the 90 year old was still in charge inheritance tax exemption of 100 per cent for family because no one had the power to move him on. firms, which makes it possible for family ownership Read more at http://cep.lse.ac.uk to remain concentrated and provides an incentive

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Secondary school admissions in London

While some London secondary schools are that could be said to enhance social justice and not prioritise groups of disadvantaged children, moving towards a more inclusive admissions inclusion. The most dramatic change was in the such as children in care or those with special policy, allowing more schools to become percentage of schools that prioritised children educational needs, to the same extent as other responsible for their own admissions risks in public care. This increased from 4 per cent in schools. The research identified admissions increasing the levels of covert selection. 2001 to 85 per cent in 2005. practices carried out by a minority of schools responsible for their own admissions that Authors Hazel Pennell and Anne West, of the However, the research also identified a minority offered the potential for ‘covert’ selection, for of schools, mainly those that were responsible Centre for Educational Research based within example: interviewing where it was not an for their own admissions, reporting selective or Social Policy, examined the changes that have admissions criterion, collecting information from potentially selective criteria. Overall, around a taken place since the UK government’s School parents that did not appear to be relevant to the quarter of secondary schools had used at least Admissions Code of Practice came into force admissions’ criteria and the inappropriate use of one ‘potentially selective’ admissions criterion (46 in September 2004. Compared with an earlier supplementary admissions forms. per cent of voluntary aided schools, 35 per cent survey conducted in 2001, the new research of foundation schools, 10 per cent of community/ Read more at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CER/ found that there had been an increase in the voluntary controlled schools). In addition, research.htm use of admissions criteria in London schools schools in control of their own admissions did

Maximising the benefits: an analysis of British Gas’ benefit health check programmes Around a third of households eligible for benefits are underclaiming by an average of £30 a week, found research fellow Tom Sefton of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion – a benefits ‘black hole’ causing unnecessary hardship. At least 2.5 million households across the UK are not claiming the income-related benefits to which they are entitled. Read more at www.britishgasnews. co.uk/

Have targets improved performance in the English NHS? The star rating system for English NHS trusts seems to have improved performance, but systems need to be put in place to minimise gaming and ensure targets are not causing problems elsewhere, warned Professors Work-life balance, management Gwyn Bevan, Operational Research, and practices and productivity Christopher Hood, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, in the British Medical Journal w Companies that are bigger, more globalised Dr Bloom said: ‘Based on these results, it . Read more at ww.lse.ac.uk/ and better managed provide a better work- simply is not true that globalisation is such a collections/pressandinformationoffice/ life balance for their employees, according to disaster for employees. Employees in larger, researchexcellence.htm researchers Nick Bloom, Tobias Kretchmer more globalised firms seem to be much better and John Van Reenen from the Centre for off in terms of their working lives than those in Competition, choice and pupil Economic Performance. smaller, more national firms. Most of the best- achievement run firms in our sample treated their employees They found tough product market competition Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and very well.’ improves management practices but without any Olmo Silva, Centre for the Economics of detrimental impact on work-life balance. At the Professor John Van Reenen added: ‘But we Education, used a large administrative census same time, there was no evidence that firms with also need to be cautious before inferring that of primary school pupils in London and the good practices on work-life balance – shorter the results give a carte blanche for governments surrounding area to find that, on balance, hours, flexible working, family-friendly policies, etc to regulate for better work-life balance. Good choice and competition does not seem to – have higher productivity. work-life balance seems to be something be generally effective in raising standards in that well-run firms in competitive markets do The study used an innovative survey tool primary schools. Pupils who have a wider naturally. They need to treat their employees on over 700 manufacturing firms in France, choice of schools at their place of residence well to keep them – if not, their competitors will Germany, the UK and the United States to ask perform no better than those with limited hire them away.’ questions about management practices and choice. Read more at http://cee.lse.ac.uk/ work-life balance. Read more at http://cep.lse.ac.uk pubs

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LSE news

New year honours LSE people Susan Hunt, of LSE’s Professor Paul Cheshire of the Geography Law Department, was and Environment Department was awarded awarded an MBE in the Royal Economic Society’s prize for the the 2006 New Year’s best paper to be published in the Society’s Honours for 32 years of Economic Journal during 2004. The paper, service to the School. ‘Capitalising the Value of Free Schools’, was She began working for written jointly with Stephen Sheppard of the Department in June Williams College, Massachusetts, who spent Judge Rosalyn Higgins has been elected 1973, becoming the LLB administrator in 1995. his sabbatical year with the School. president of the International Court of Justice. Department convenor Professor Christopher Professor Tim Newburn, professor of An honorary fellow and former member of Greenwood QC said: ‘She is an absolutely criminology and social justice and president the Law Department, she is the first woman invaluable member of our Department who of the British Society of Criminology, is one to have been elected president of the Court, has managed our main undergraduate of the members of a major cross-party UK programme for many years, during which review of how crime statistics are compiled and time the programme has doubled in size.’ published, to increase public understanding of crime trends. Gabriel Rosenberg is the first recipient of the Executive Education programme for Haya Freedman prize for the best dissertation on the MSc in Applicable Mathematics. Haya ‘high-potential’ ABN AMRO bankers Freedman was a member of LSE’s Mathematics York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and London. teaching staff until her retirement in 1989. The A total of nine masterclasses were delivered prize was established in her memory after her between September 2005 and March 2006. death last year. The highly interactive programme was Michael Sarapatka customised to cover strategic development, (BSc International growth and profitability, with a special focus Relations 2005) won on risk management and corporate finance. the British Czech and Facilitators and faculty experts targeted areas Slovak Association crucial to ABN AMRO’s position in the global best essay prize for 2005. His essay on Enterprise LSE and Duke Corporate Education marketplace. One participant said: ‘It was a well ‘The Czech Republic have started a fully customised programme considered structure which ensured continued in the European for high potential director level employees of momentum. This was aided by the quality of the Context: what are the problems of freedom and ABN AMRO. facilitators who related theoretical models back to business cases and our daily experience.’ democracy?’ earned him £300. The programme was structured as a sequence of masterclasses delivered worldwide, in New See: www.enterprise-lse.co.uk

New MSc Finance Merck grant programme LSE Health has been awarded a grant of US $600,000 over three years by the Merck The Department of Accounting and Finance Company Foundation. The award represents has launched a new two year, part time MSc a significant boost to UK research into Finance programme, starting in autumn 2006. pharmaceutical industry competitiveness and The MSc has been designed for professionals policy issues. thinking about moving into the finance field The grant made by the Merck Company Catherine Webb (above), a second year who want a focused, academically rigorous Foundation is part of the Foundation’s International History student, has published programme to give them a solid foundation. Programme on Pharmaceutical Policy her fifth novel The Extraordinary and Unusual , Department convener, said: ‘We are very Issues (PPPI), which has a remit to increase Adventures of Horatio Lyle (Atom), a 19th excited about the intellectual opportunities this public awareness and understanding of century whodunit. Catherine, a member of programme will bring. What is unique about this pharmaceutical policy issues. the SU Drama Society who recently directed new programme is the opportunity to confront Professor Alistair McGuire of LSE Health said: Macbeth, published her first book aged 14. the realities of the current financial market ‘We are very pleased to be awarded this further Bettina Woll, a research student in DESTIN, place with cutting edge tools incorporating grant, which enhances our status as a leading won one of the World Society Foundation’s the very latest of developments from both research centre in health economics. It is an awards for her paper on ‘Civil Society academia and practice’. For details, see the appropriate time to be looking at the regulation Participation, the New Mantra in Foreign Graduate Prospectus 2006 at www.lse.ac.uk of the pharmaceutical industry and how Development Assistance: evidence from regulation affects research productivity.’ Bolivia’, for which she received US$1,000.

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James Meade, Students bin it Nobel winner LSE’s environmental and sustainability coordinator is Victoria Hands (pictured, left), also a PhD researcher at the School, and founder of the Halls Recycling Project. She said: ‘Students are keen to reduce their environmental impact and when provided with appropriate facilities and support can make a huge difference to the amount of waste being sent to landfill.’ In Grosvenor House, the School’s newest residence on Drury Lane, the introduction of Westminster Council recycling bags in each room has already reduced the amount of waste going to landfill. Grosvenor House resident Alexa Students in LSE halls of residence are really Kleysteuber (right), an MSc environmental taking the recycling message to heart. policy and regulation student from Washington A new treasure came to the Archives in Recycling is being made easier and simpler DC, said: ‘It is so easy. I just fill the recycling January 2006 – James Meade’s Nobel Prize thanks to more cooperation between School staff, bag, take it down to the bins, and I know it’s medal and citation accommodation managers, local councils such as doing some good. I think students generally James Meade (1907-95) came to the School Westminster, Southwark, Camden and Islington, understand the positive effects of recycling and in 1947, taking the Cassel professorship of and the support of the London’s University Halls appreciate the opportunity the dorm provides commerce. It was at LSE that Meade produced of Residence Recycling Project. This project is us to do so.’ his ground breaking work on international run by a voluntary sector organisation, CRISP, in See www.lse.ac.uk/collections/environment trade, published as The Theory of International partnership with the . Economic Policy, Volume 1, The Balance of Payments (1951) and The Theory of The Journal of International Economic Policy, Volume 2: Trade New journals Global History and Welfare (1955) for which he was awarded JGH seeks to the Nobel Prize in economics in 1977. This year the LSE Academic Publications overcome the growing Office launches two exciting new journals with He first deposited papers in 1975, with segmentation of Cambridge University Press. regular deposits until his death. The extensive expertise about the archive of 132 boxes includes diaries (1943- BioSocieties past into discrete 52), correspondence and papers (1927-95), Developments in compartments. Patterns papers on the economic and social structure genomics, stem cell of both human and research, pharmacology of Mauritius, the structure and reform of non-human change stretch far back before and neuroscience raise the appearance of written documents, direct taxation, the Stagflation project and questions, not just especially in the case of material history. JGH the economics of partnership and lectures. about the nature of seeks to become a forum for interdisciplinary There are also files relating to the work Meade living processes and encounters exploring such long term changes. undertook for the Social Democratic Party and their amenability to The historical nature of globalisation, which some material gathered by Meade about the understanding and manipulation, but also about has waxed and waned over the millennia, will work of his colleague Bill Phillips. the forces and ambitions shaping progress in itself be a focus of analysis. Whereas past His widow Margaret Meade herself attended LSE the life sciences and their medical applications. explanations of globalising trends have relied in the early 1950s on the postgraduate course They also raise questions about the ways they on grand narratives of the ‘rise of the west’ and in Social Science and Administration. She said: are transforming individual and collective lives in the ‘westernisation of the rest’, JGH wishes to ‘My husband often stated that he wanted them different societies, locally, nationally and globally. make innovative comparisons that use different to stay in the UK. LSE, where he taught for ten BioSocieties is the first journal committed to yardsticks and quarry ideas from a variety of years, was the obvious choice. Since his death, publishing original research and debate on traditions. Although the whole globe does not the family has added a few significant items to these issues across the spectrum of the social need to be the framework of analysis, JGH the archive. The work for which my husband was studies of life sciences. It is also committed stresses the need to transcend traditional awarded the Nobel Prize was done for the most to generating a genuine interdisciplinary concerns with nation states, geographical part at LSE, and it therefore seemed appropriate conversation between the social sciences and regions, civilisations, and environmental zones. that his Nobel medal and citation should join the the life sciences on these issues. To read a sample article, or to subscribe, go to rest of his archive.’ To read a sample article, or to subscribe, see www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_JGH The archives are available to researchers, www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_BIO For further information on LSE’s journals further details at http://archives.lse.ac.uk programme, email [email protected] 34 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I Reunions

Reunions

impoverished youth was relieved, and his French improved, during a vacation job in France. Sir John Sparrow (BSc Accounting and Finance; honorary fellow) later proposed a toast to the School, dazzling the company with a complicated formula for calculating when they should meet again, typical of one who was given 91 per cent in Part I statistics: a compulsory subject which forced the School to make the pass mark 20 per cent if a large section of that year were to continue their studies. Michael Thomas (LLB 1954), a current governor, and one of a number of distinguished lawyers of the era, replied. Among others who commented were Margaret Martyn (née Thornton) (BSc Econ 1954) and Lord (Alf) Dubs (BSc Government 1954). We Class of 1956 reunion also had the pleasure of welcoming Vivienne Monday 3 April 2006 Warszawski (née Bloch) (BSc Economics 1953), who came from New York – truly a sign Over 60 alumni and guests returned for the of the regard in which the School is held. Class of 1956 50th anniversary reunion, a day The group plans to meet again in 2007, that included tours of the School, a welcome full details to follow later this year. from Simeon Underwood, LSE’s academic registrar, and lunch in the Founders’ Room Robert Williams (BSc Government 1954) (Shaw Library). India-Pakistan goodwill It was universally agreed that a particular highlight Reunions in 2006 was the afternoon lecture by Professor Lord The LSE alumni groups of India (Delhi) and – Classes of 1970 and 1971: (William) Wallace, which Pamela Green (BSc 35th anniversary Pakistan (Lahore) jointly organised a goodwill Friday 23 and Saturday 24 June (rescheduled Government 1956) described as ‘a tour de exchange visit between the two groups. from July 2005) force, with such a balanced and sweeping view A group of 12 members representing of international events during the last 50 years’. 25th anniversary – Classes of 1980 and 1981: LSE alumni, Pakistan, visited India for a Attendees leapt at the chance to take part in the Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July 2006 five day visit. The group was hosted by question and answer session that followed, ably 40th anniversary – Classes of 1966 and 1967: their counterpart alumni from the Delhi demonstrating that the intervening 50 years had Friday 15 and Saturday 16 September 2006 chapter and stayed at their residence. done nothing to dampen either their inquisitive They met KR Narayanan (BSc Government spirits or intellectual agility and knowledge! If you would like to attend any of these reunions and have not already received details, please 1948), the former president of India, and The day was rounded off by an excellent see www.lse.ac.uk/alumnii, email reunions@lse. also visited the Taj Mahal at Agra and dinner in the lovely surroundings of the Senior ac.uk or call the Reunions and Events team on the Red Fort and India Gate at Delhi. Common Room, and a toast to the School +44 (0)20 7955 7050. This was followed up by a reciprocal from Harold Lievesley (BSc Economics and visit of the alumni from Delhi to Lahore. International History 1956). This group also visited Islamabad and The next chance for the Class of 1956 to get Reunions in 2007 Badshahi Masjid, Faisal Mosque, Taxila. together will be at the 50+ Reunion, provisionally 50+ anniversary – Classes of 1957 and before: Both the visits were a grand success. scheduled for Tuesday 27 March 2007. Tuesday 27 March 2007 Ashwajit Singh (MSCEC Statistics and Nat Holtham, 35th anniversary – Classes of 1972 and 1973: Maths 1988), chairman of the Delhi alumni, reunions and events manager, LSE Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July 2007 explained that the idea for this unique 15th anniversary – Classes of 1992 and 1993: goodwill exchange was first conceived about Friday 14 and Saturday 15 September 2007 four years ago, but had to be deferred a Class of 1954 mini reunion few times due to the changing fortunes in Friday 3 February 2006 A full timetable of reunions and events is Indo–Pak relations over the last few years. available at with dates Given the general increase in longevity, younger www.lse.ac.uk/alumni He hoped that this would become an annual scheduled up to 2009. readers will be encouraged to learn that 36 former affair. Raza Rahman (LLB 1998, LLM 1999), pupils, now all in their 70s, managed to meet for leader of the Pakistan delegation, also hoped an extremely convivial meal at Coopers restaurant. this was the beginning of a much larger joint Alan Tyrrell (LLB 1954) opened the proceedings initiative between the two alumni groups. with a welcome speech, recalling how his I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 35 Tell us more

FROM THE ALUMNI UNITED KINGDOM Thompson, head of BBC Films, Stephen ASSOCIATION CHAIR City Alumni Woolley, producer of Scandal and Rupert Dear fellow alumni The first of the 2006 City Alumni events Murray, director of Unknown White Female. Recently, I was invited as chair of the new LSE looked at real estate, asking the question Our second event, ‘Web 2.0’, debated whether Alumni Association to attend the AGM of the West ‘Internationalisation of Real Estate Markets: innovations will turn the internet into the ultimate, Midlands Alumni Group in historic Hereford near synchronised cycles or collapsing bubbles?’ The social and collaborative repository or an orderless the Welsh border. The meeting was in a slightly event, in March, was chaired by Professor Paul sprawl of content created by amateurs. The old fashioned small hotel. The attendance was Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at debate was both educational and entertaining. somewhat above what one usually expects at the School, and led to an interesting debate. The LSE Media Group is the organisation for an AGM. An authoritative lecture was given by a LSE alumni who work or have an interest in member, a well known judge, and the meeting LSE Business Alumni Network (LBAN) ended with a roast beef luncheon and beer. LBAN extends a warm welcome to all present the media industry – in its broadest sense. This and future members with an interest in includes advertising, journalism, public relations, It reminded me very much of the Students’ business. Every month we host a social drinks entertainment, media consultancy, marketing and Union meetings in the Old Theatre, they were evening on the third Tuesday in central London. other creative careers. The group holds events perhaps less dignified, but had the same mix Our members network with fellow professionals, about five times a year to discuss media issues. of serious issues for debate, and wit and fun in For information on joining, please see the the proceedings. I was there because, outside expand their circle of friends and meet people groups section at www.lse.ac.uk/alumni or call of London, this is the only alumni group in the who share the unique LSE experience. +44 (0)20 7955 7050. UK! I wanted to learn about why it survives, LBAN also holds a series of seasonal and Alice Huang (MSc Industrial Relations and and flourishes, since one of the tasks the new other events including seminars, dinners Personnel Management 1989), chair Association has set itself is to try to open up and cultural visits. For more information more UK and worldwide groups. and details of how to join (membership LSE London Alumni Network I concluded that what makes for a successful is free), please see www.lban.org In 2005-06 the LSE London Alumni Network has continued its programme of visits to interesting alumni group could be the mixture of serious LSE Lawyers’ Alumni Group concern about civil issues, with a spirit of fun and unusual places in London, including The LSE Lawyers Alumni Group goes from and enjoyment in likeminded people’s company, visits to the Churchill Rooms and Cabinet War strength to strength. In February, Lord Falconer, characteristics also present when one was at Rooms, the House of Lords Records Office, the Lord Chancellor, addressed the largest the School, plus, of course, good leadership. and a ‘Meet the Director’ event at LSE. attendance achieved at any of our annual dinners Since that meeting, my colleagues and I on the when 100 guests enjoyed his entertaining and The Network is looking to broaden its series of LSEAA Executive Committee, have continued to highly informative speech. We were particularly events for 2006-07, possibly including a lecture ask alumni what it is that they want to experience delighted to welcome a record number of series on London. The committee would be very and enjoy in alumni groups, and how they think both postgraduates and undergraduates grateful for your feedback on the types of events the School can help them to have a closer and who had been awarded Law Department you would like to see, and has posted an online more useful relationship with LSE. We are getting prizes for their work in the various subjects questionnaire at www.lse.ac.uk/alumni. Please a lot of good answers and ideas; many of them studied. It was a truly memorable occasion. call +44 (0)20 7955 6756 for a paper version. are fun as much as seriously useful to careers and lifetime education. In March the group was privileged to have West Midlands Friends of LSE Professor Nicola Lacey as guest speaker at a To close with some fun, to test your alumni The West Midlands Friends of LSE ended 2005 meeting in the Hong Kong Theatre. Michael knowledge. Turn the nonsense words below into with an extremely interesting visit to Soho Zander, former head of the Law Department, names and places associated with the School: House, Birmingham, the home of Matthew took the chair. Success will be your only reward - good luck! Boulton and headquarters of the Lunar Society. We are delighted that we continue to enjoy We then enjoyed good conversation and David Kingsley, chair LSEAA excellent relationships with Law Department excellent food at the local Black Eagle pub. Our Seaward Dhovi; Barry Washli; Digdens; Shun staff who participate fully in our various activities, AGM was in Hereford, where we were treated Treet; Mad As,Why Clad; Tough Tree Snoth; and we would welcome any suggestion from to a fascinating talk by a member, Judge Bed Veri Dorgel; Hott Leader; Grst Whi; Bee members and students as to future activities. David Miller, who spoke to us about proposed Ever Tartars; Kill Shard. David Goldstone (LLB 1952), chair changes in the jury system. A notable event We are always pleased to receive articles relating to our alumni group was a unique City of LSE Media Group or letters from alumni, both for the alumni Birmingham Symphony Orchestra concert held pages of LSE Magazine and the website. The year’s first meeting of the LSE Media Group in Symphony Hall in March, to celebrate the life To contribute information, or contact was a well-attended event in March entitled ‘Is of the late George Jonas (LLB 1951). This was us, please write to the Alumni Relations truth still stranger than fiction?’. The evening jointly conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and Sakari team, Office of Development and Alumni explored whether fictional feature films or Oramo. Forthcoming visits include a trip to LSE in Relations, LSE, Houghton Street, London documentaries do a better job of capturing the July and an October meeting which will involve a WC2A 2AE, email [email protected] or see essential ‘truth’ of a story. The event featured a political speaker. We would like to welcome new the website at www.lse.ac.uk/alumni panel of leading documentarians, film makers, members of all ages to our events, from whatever Want to join a UK or international group? and commissioning editors, including David area in the Midlands, or Welsh borders. If you are Please see www.lse.ac.uk/alumni and 36 LSE Magazine Summer 2006 clickI on groups or emailI [email protected] I interested in joining us, please contact Margaret encouraged to visit the website for news about Top: German alumni group (left to right) Dr Gerd Mueller-Brockhausen (MSc Economics 1981), Dr Griffiths on +44 (0)1886 853543. upcoming events. Waltraud Schelkle, LSE’s European Institute, Dr Margaret Griffiths (BSc Geography To receive more information about the Toronto Michael Ivans (LLM 1991), Margitta Waelker-Mirbach (Dip Economics 1984), David Kinglsey (BSc Sociology 1965), secretary chapter, please contact Gregory Sullivan at 1953) and Marcel Bigger (General Course 1994, MSc Political Economics 1997) LSE Environmental Initiatives Network [email protected] Middle: An Austrian social event in Vienna: left to EIN celebrated its tenth anniversary with an FRANCE right, Miia Lahti (MSc European Studies 2003) and excellent debate in December 2005 entitled Resa Koleva (MSc European Studies 2003) ‘Peak Oil – the global crisis?’ A packed Howard Davies visited Paris to talk to French Bottom: Tsovinar Babayan (MSc Management 2000) Old Theatre heard from Chris Skrebowlski, alumni and leaders from French business and and Lada Savintseva (LLM 2002) from the Russian editor of Petroleum Review, Paul Mobbs, education at a conference-cocktail event, hosted alumni group author of Energy Beyond Oil, Tim Dyson, by the British ambassador and organised by the Professor of Human Geography at LSE, French alumni group in liaison with the British and Merlin Matthews, founder of Re~cycle Council in Paris. (who also brought the event together). The Director illustrated his talk, ‘What the January then brought a fascinating and well French and British economies can learn from attended multi-media event showcasing the work each other’, by interesting research carried out of the Environmental Investigation Agency, the at LSE and other organisations. The talk was world’s foremost investigators of environmental followed by a cocktail for all participants, and a crime. The EIN has also recently published its dinner offered by the ambassador to the alumni third membership directory, as well as the 2006 group management committee and selected issue of its informative Journal. More events are invitees. Over 150 participants attended the being planned for autumn 2006. For information event, approximately half being LSE alumni about joining, please see www.lse.ac.uk/alumni and half top executives from major French or call +44 (0)20 7955 7361. companies, financial institutions and leading (BSc Econ 1961) Henry Thoresby universities and business schools. AUSTRIA Other events in France have included dinner- debates with guest speakers such as Henri The ALSEAA has diversified its event portfolio Chapotot, a member of the UN Committee on by introducing business networking events. Sustainable Development and secretary general There was no better place to launch these than of the European Sustainable Development and at the British Embassy’s informal local business Marketing Association; Erik Orsenna, writer and contact get-together. For more information member of the eminent Académie Française; on the ALSEAA please contact Hannah under and Jacques Delmoly, European Commission [email protected] member responsible for linguistic policy. BULGARIA We remind all alumni living in France who are The Bulgarian group met in Sofia in March not registered with the French alumni group 2006 for its monthly meeting, three decades of that they can register their personal details on alumni attending. It was interesting to discuss the group’s website: www.lsefrance.org. and exchange experiences about how LSE has changed over the last 30 years. GERMANY Future initiatives will include joint meetings The German alumni group’s annual meeting saw with similar British alumni groups in Bulgaria around 50 participants from all over Germany as well as contact with the British Council. meeting in the baroque city of Wuerzburg in Meetings are held monthly at the Irish pub, October. With its historic old city, and nearby Flannigans, opposite the National Assembly. vineyards, the Wuerzburg event was a pleasant, balanced mix of work, discussion, art and More information at http://groups.msn.com/ culture, as well as dancing and socialising. bulgariansociety Vassilka Tchifilionova (MSc ADMIS, 2002) We appreciated in particular the participation of David Kingsley, chair of the LSE Alumni CANADA Association, and of his wife Gisela. David In January the Toronto branch of the Canadian reported on the progress of the LSEAA and we Friends of the London School of Economics were particularly happy to be the first alumni (the ‘CFLSE’) hosted an evening with Edward group which David visited after his election as Greenspon (MSc Government 1985), editor- chair. Also welcome were our other guests: from in-chief of The Globe and Mail. Mr Greenspon LSE, Dr Waltraud Schelkle from the European shared his insights into the recent Canadian Institute, who gave a lecture on ‘Can there be a federal election with over 40 alumni. The event European Social Model?’ and Marcel Bigger, the was sponsored by Heenan Blaikie LLP and was secretary general of the Swiss alumni group. held at the firm’s Toronto office. There was also an organ concert in the old The Toronto chapter of the CFLSE is also happy Wuerzburg cathedral and tour of the famous to announce the launch of its new website: baroque Die Residenz – a UNESCO world heritage site since 1981. www.cflse.com. All Toronto-area alumni are I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 37 This all helped work up an appetite for a Portugal and, you haven’t done so yet, please delicious dinner at the Alte Mainmühle, let João ([email protected]) know with dancing till after midnight bringing where you can be reached so that you can be back memories of LSE student days. On kept informed about the group’s activities. Sunday morning, the group visited the city’s ancient fort Marienberg, marking the end of RUSSIA a very memorable and inspiring reunion. To celebrate the ongoing links between Russia and LSE, the British Embassy hosted a INDIA reception for LSE alumni in November. Those The Indian alumni group met Director Howard attending toasted the continuing success of the Davies in January at the Bengal Club. Howard School’s links with ICEF (International College spoke about the latest developments at the of Economics and Finance) in Moscow, where School and also on the European Union. Earlier in there are now well over 100 graduates. That the evening he addressed members of the Bengal same week, Professor Charles Goodhart, the National Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and where he gave an extremely well received Finance gave a series of lectures at ICEF and lecture on the ‘Future of the Global Economy’. was the guest of honour at the alumni reception

ITALY Swedish alumni have joined forces to form The Italian LSE alumni group met in Rome in a Swedish alumni association. The inaugural January at the wine bar Trimani for an afternoon meeting was hosted by Niclas Högström at chat on ‘Talking London’. Guest speaker was the offices of Hamilton law firm in October Ashley Prime, UK diplomat in Rome and, most and attracted close to 40 alumni for a very importantly, a Londoner. He described the major enjoyable evening. This page from the top events in the history of London, pointing out Above: Howard Davies with the Indian alumni group how, from the Roma period onwards, the ‘city The interest among Swedish alumni has been Bottom: Gary Kleiman (General Course 1981) with of merchants’ remained open throughout the quite considerable and as a result the newly Clara Montanez (Dip International Relations 1983) formed association has already attracted close from Washington DC chapter centuries to influences from all over the world, while keeping its own flair. Alumni took part in a to 100 members. lively discussion, sharing the impressions they UNITED ARAB EMIRATES remembered from the years they spent at LSE. Plenty of food and wine closed the event. Since Kaashif Basit (LLM 1998) arranged a small social evening last year, the United Andrea Venanzetti (BSc Economics 1987), chair Arab Emirates group has grown and is now LEBANON successful and lively. Most recently, members enjoyed a lunch with HE Shaikh Nahyan Bin Our founding dinner in February was a smashing Mubarek Al Nahyan, minister for education success! More than 20 alumni celebrated our in Abu Dhabi. Arif Naqvi also hosted a drinks first real alumni event at Karam’s Downtown, reception with guest speaker LSE’s Professor a great Lebanese restaurant in the heart of Fred Halliday, International Relations. Beirut. A delicious mezze and fine Lebanese wines ensured that many friends were made. USA The atmosphere was warm, friendly and alive The Alumni and Friends of the LSE in the United with energy. And we even managed to get States continues to upgrade its website (www. some paperwork signed too. We’ve filed for aflse.org), increasing the benefits available to official registration as the LSE Lebanon Alumni paid-up members of the organisation. These Association. Our website has also been launched include the online membership directory classified – www.lselebanon.org The group is essentially advertising, and discounted journal subscriptions. targeted at our alumni and friends in Lebanon. In addition, electronic newsletters generated from the website alert all alumni who have logged on PORTUGAL the website to the continuing programmes of The Portuguese alumni group took the chapter events and activities across the USA. opportunity of the Director’s visit to Portugal at Chicago the end of January to organise a dinner, with the Howard Davies was guest of honour at an invaluable help of the British Embassy in Lisbon. Opposite page, clockwise from the top October reception at the elegant Chicago New York holiday party The event proved a success, mostly due to Club, courtesy of alumna Sheila Penrose. Howard Davies’s remarkable after dinner Left to right, event coordinators Robyn Hiestand The Director gave an overview of academic (MSc Government 2003), Kristina Stefanova (MSc speech. This has inspired a group of alumni programmes and research, student life and Development Studies 2003), Olga Chistyakova (MSc led by João Cotrim de Figueiredo (BSc facilities, and recent initiatives shaping the Geography 2004) Accounting and Finance 1984), Marcella future of LSE. The reception, organised by the Joy Dunkerley (BSc Econ 1953) who hosted the Bon Voyage party, with chapter co-chair Joseph Horn Franchi (BSc Econ 1984) and Marcos Lagoa LSE Foundation, provided a great opportunity (BSc Econ 1985) to breathe some life into Dan Weil (General Course 1961), Mike Steigmann to revitalise the Chicago chapter of the AFLSE (MSc Economics 1991) and Tom Malkin (General the Portuguese group. So, if you are an and led to the recruitment of new chapter Course 1991). LSE alumnus or alumna with connections to leaders Kristin Lingren (LLM Law 2001) and

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Tom Malkin (General Course 1991) who are working on a programme of activities for 2006. Many thanks to Dan Weil (General Course 1961), who initiated the AFLSE Chicago chapter in the early 1980s, for generously sponsoring a great event to begin the new programme. This was the February reception, hosted by HM consul general, Andrew Seaton, at his splendid residence with panoramic views of the lakeshore. The consul general welcomed the capacity crowd of more than 70 alumni and guests, and spoke of his commitment to reaching out to alumni of distinguished British universities. Dan responded to his remarks, and thanked him for hosting the event. Denver The Denver chapter of the AFLSE has also undergone a revival with the recruitment of Bart Alexander (MPhil Social Administration 1975) and Jennifer Hopkins (MSc Politics of the World Economy 2003) to the leadership. In February, HM consul Mark Stevens welcomed more than more than 30 Denver alumni and guests to his residence. Refreshments were generously provided by the consulate and Molson Coors. The reception was a great start to what hopes to become an active and thriving chapter. Houston On an unusually cold winter night in December, with a background of authentic British food, drinks and décor at the Black Labrador Pub, the AFLSE chapter welcomed HM consul General Judith Slater, accompanied by her husband Philip de Waal. The atmosphere was very relaxed as all those present introduced themselves. The couple have graciously offered to host AFLSE in 2006.

New York City San Francisco desserts. The event, graciously hosted in the The New York chapter has been busy with a 2005 was an eventful year for the San home of alumna Lori Handrahan (PhD Gender variety of activities. In addition to the 7 O’Clock Francisco chapter. In addition to the ongoing Studies 2001), was a great success, with guests Club, a happy hour held on the first Monday monthly happy hours – first Mondays at the bringing toys to be donated to charity. of every month, more than 70 alumni of all Royal Exchange – in August alumni were In February alumni were invited to hear Gary ages gathered for the annual Holiday Party at invited to see the San Francisco Giants play Kleiman (General Course 1981) as the featured Croton Reservoir Tavern in December. With both the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago speaker on ‘Emerging Markets: mania or good food, drink, friends and LSE giveaways, Cubs from the corporate hospitality box of the mainstream’, one of a Financial Forum Series it was a great kick-off to the holiday season! law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, organised by Washington chapter leader With the LSE Graduates of the Last Decade courtesy of alumnus Neil Ray (LLB Law 1998). Clara Montanez (Diploma International and (GOLD) group, and the LSE Foundation, over In October, Bay Area alumni gathered at the Comparative Politics 1983), as VP, Advisory and 30 recent alumni gathered in November for a Pelican Inn to celebrate the 200th anniversary Brokerage Services at UBS. tour and tasting at the Brooklyn Brewery, the of the Battle of Trafalgar. Costumed actors only active microbrewery in New York City. In engaged in sword fighting on the lawn in front Alumni have also been invited to various venues the same month, Howard Davies attended of the inn, which was disassembled in Cornwall, to hear alumna, Elizabeth Smith Brownstein (MSc a gathering of alumni at the home of Ruth shipped and reconstructed beam by dark-wood International Relations 1967), former president Porat (MSc International Relations 1981) and beam in picturesque Muir Beach. of the AFLSE, discuss her latest book, Lincoln’s Anthony Paduano (MSc Government 1981). Other White House (see page 47). Washington, DC Also in collaboration with the LSE Foundation, Events have included a September seminar Stelios Haji-Ioannou (BSc Econ 1987), founder of on energy and climate change, featuring easyjet and other easygroup enterprises, gave a Scott Barrett (PhD Economics 1989), lecture on ‘The Essence of Entrepreneurship’ in Correction Professor at the Johns Hopkins School January. The event, sponsored by the UK Trade In December’s LSE Magazine, under ‘Washington, and Investment Group at the British Consulate of Advanced International Studies, and a DC’ an incorrect picture was used of Joy General, attracted a capacity group of New York reception at the Cosmos Club in November. Dunkerley (BSc Econ 1953) who hosted the 2005 alumni and guests who participated in a lively Q A capacity crowd attended the Holiday Party Bon Voyage party, with chapter co-chair Joseph and A session, followed by a reception. in December, with English afternoon tea and Horn (LLM 1987), pictured above I Summer 2006 I LSE Magazine I 39 1951 Where are John W Reps (PhD Public Administration), an emeritus professor of city and regional planning they now? at Cornell University, has written John Caspar Wild: painter and printmaker of Nineteenth Century Wherever possible, we list the details of America (Missouri Historical Society Press, 2006). an individual’s degree(s) followed by the This is the latest of his books about urban America, Paul Webley (BSc Social Psychology, PhD subject and the year of graduation: eg the cities in Mississipi and the painter Wild. 1981) is the new director and principal of the John Smith (BSc Economic History 1980). School of Oriental and African Studies, University House style is to list simply BSc/MSc 1956 of London. Professor Webley was previously without the additional Econ. Parzival Copes (PhD Economics) has been deputy vice chancellor of the . Where we have no record of the subject, appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. we list the known department, and if we 1984 do not have this information, we list what Tsai Ing-wen (PhD Law) is the new vice premier we have, eg BSc Econ. Alumni in this 1963 of Taiwan. She has also served as director of the section are listed under the year in which Professor Samuel Farber (MSc Political Mainland Affairs Council, the governmental body Sociology) works within the Department of they first left LSE, with additional degrees established to manage and develop relations included in their entry. Political Science, Brooklyn College, New York with China. A Democratic Progressive Party The Origins of the and this year published (DPP) legislator-at-large, she played a key role in Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University talks that led to Taiwan’s accession to the World of North Carolina Press, 2006) Trade Organisation in 2002. She also leads the LSE Taiwanese alumni group, which welcomed 1966 Howard Davies last year. Taro Aso (Occasional student 1966) is the new foreign minister of Japan. He 1985 was previously minister for international Martin Graham (BSc International Relations) affairs and communications. is director of market services at the London Stock Exchange. 1974 Maria Miller MP (BSc Geography) is the Member of Parliament for Basingstoke and the UK Conservative’s shadow minister for education with responsibilities for primary schools.

1987 Mike Brooks (MSc Accounting and Finance) is a lay member of the Medical Research The Hon Tod Kaufman (General Course) has Council and chairman-elect of the MRC Audit become president of the West Virginia, USA Committee. Following a career in financial Judicial Association. management in the oil and gas industry, including 20 years with Shell, he retired in 1975 1999 to develop a portfolio of consulting and non-executive activities. Elise Groulx-Diggs (LLM) is president of the first International Criminal Bar (ICB). She was 1988 elected after leading an international movement bringing together national bars, individual James Wentz (PhD Government) has been lawyers and non-governmental organisations honoured by the Blair County Pennsylvania to create the ICB. Historical Society for his work in preserving Blair County history. 1976 1989 William Corley (MSc Economic History) is executive director of the International Cargo Security Council, a non profit ‘I was inspired to study association of transportation and at LSE because of supply chain security professionals. the history of thought Ramash Vala (LLB) was awarded the pro 1990 leadership in international bono lawyer of the year award by the Society Michiel van Hulten (BSc Government, of Asian Lawyers. He has helped to raise over MSc Government 1991) has been elected business and politics £1 million for various charities and is a partner chair of the Dutch Labour party. He was – and I loved London’ at Jeffrey Green Russell. previously a Member of the European

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Parliament. Michiel was general secretary of the LSE Students’ Union 1991-92 and co-chair of the 1990-91 Reunion Committee. Rapid résumé 1991 Charles Krawitz (MSc Regional and Urban Planning) is managing director of the Multifamily Finance group, a division of La Salle Bank’s Real Estate group.

1992 Matthew Mellor (BSc Sociology) is now operations director at recruitment specialists Which societies did you join, Armstrong Craven. and why? Dr Paula M Pevato (LLM, PhD 1998) is All of the cultural associations a barrister and solicitor. After completing because they had the best parties! her PhD thesis, she was a legal officer for the International Labour Organization, a UN What have been the highlights of your specialised agency based in Geneva, where career so far? she worked on various aspects of human Working in the for a German rights including new international standards to investment bank, heading up Microsoft’s eradicate the worst forms of child labour and Venture Capital Strategy (Silicon Valley and revised standards on maternity protection. Now then EMEA), now being able to bridge the she is writing, and has published International digital divide at WISeKey SA. It’s a company Environmental Law, Volumes I and II (Ashgate, Sheetal Mehta (MSc International Relations that provides identification, authentication 2003) as well as raising thoroughbreds 1995) is senior vice president, Affiliates and encryption for organisations to on a private, family-owned and operated and Venture Capital, for WISeKey SA. identify individuals and devices in various thoroughbred ranch. Prior to joining WISeKey SA, Sheetal was scenarios, such as e-voting, National ID director of venture capital relations at cards, immigration, social services. The 1993 Microsoft. Before that, as co-founder and company also provides digital identities chief knowledge economist for Knowledge for people around the world, including Dr Simon Down (BSc International History) Dynamics (London), she was responsible for less developed communities, so that is a lecturer in management at the University the development of an Intellectual Capital individuals can access services like of Business School, (intangible assets) valuation tool. Case food and healthcare via the internet. having previously lectured at the University of projects included the valuation of Swissair Wollongong, Australia, and the University of code shares (alliances) and the creation of Is there an ambition you would still like Plymouth. This year he published Narratives of the world’s first global knowledge exchange. to achieve? Enterprise: crafting entrepreneurial self-identity (Edward Elgar, 2006). In 2005, HRH Prince Charles and Cherie Yes. I would like to find an orphanage Booth QC awarded Sheetal the Asian in India, make it into a cutting edge Professor Bonke Dumisa (MSc Industrial Women of Achievement Award: Social technology school and educate those Relations and Personnel Management) and Humanitarian Efforts, for her focus kids to become thought leaders in their became director of the School of Business on taking technology to developing community, nation and the global world. Management at the University of Durban- communities in India and Africa. She sits Westville (now part of the University of on the Advisory Board for UNIFEM (United What should LSE students watch out for KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) in 2003, having Nations Development Fund for Women), in India in the next five years? taught there since 1990. In 2004 he was Digital Diaspora Network for Africa (DDNA) seconded to the Office of the KwaZulu-Natal A recent Goldman Sachs report claims and the Dubai Internet City (DIC), which is Provincial Premier as economic adviser to that within ten years, India’s GDP will be a government initiative. the premier. Last year he was seconded larger than Italy’s and in 15 years it will have to the Durban Chamber of Commerce and overtaken Britain. Inward investment by large What led you to study at LSE? Industry, where he is the chief executive. corporations, outsourcing, Bollywood, a I was inspired to study at LSE because of the population in excess of 1 billion, emerging 1994 history of thought leadership in international markets, plus the potential of the poor business and politics – and I loved London. (some 300 million) once equipped with technology – that sounds like an opportunity What do you remember most about your for exponential thought leadership. time at the School? Meeting people from all over the world and What advice would you give to LSE realising how many brilliant people there are students today? around us, even though we come from such While you are studying and planning your Martin Lewis (BSc Government) has just had diverse areas – we can still communicate career, remember to enjoy the journey – the his own series on ITV1 and his updated book and jointly take positions on various topics. destination will come quickly!

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The Money Diet, made the number one spot 1997 2005 on Amazon in the UK. He was general secretary Richard Taylor (BSc Economics). Has of the LSE Students’ Union 1994-95. created Art-eFact Galleries, an independent online gallery, specialising in supplying and purchasing signed limited edition prints and original works by UK and international artists. Portfolios include Rolf Harris, Cecil Rice and Jonathan Shaw. See www.art-efact.com Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (PhD International Relations) has been appointed by United 1998 Dr Daniel Piazolo (BSc Econ) has been Nations secretary general as a appointed managing director of DID Deutsche member of the Independent Panel of Experts Immobilien Datenbank in Wiesbaden. DID is to Redesign the United Nations Administrative a property investment advice and research Justice System. The Redesign Panel will submit company and a partner of the London-based its report to the UN General Assembly on 31 IPD Investment Property Databank. After July 2006. LSE, Dr Piazolo continued studies at Yale, Michal Sarapatka (BSc International and then worked at the Research Institute of Janet Lynn F MacNeil (MSc in Politics of the Relations) won an essay writing competition run World Economics in Kiel and at the Rating World Economy), a Federal Department of Justice by the British Czech and Slovak Association, Agency Feri Rating and Research in Bad lawyer in Ottawa, Canada, won the 2005 Legal with his entry entitled ‘The Czech Republic Homburg. DID Deutsche Immobilien Datenbank Writing Competition held by the Commonwealth in the European Context: what are the provides independent, reliable information Lawyers Association on ‘Is International Law problems of freedom and democracy?’ for the German property market to facilitate Really Law?’. The prize was an expenses paid detailed benchmarks and portfolio analyses. trip to London to attend the golden jubilee of the 2005 1996 Commonwealth Lawyers conference. Dr A Meena Ahmed (PhD) will have her David Milne thesis on ‘the principles and practice of crisis Rhian Benson (BSc Econometrics and (BSc International History, management’ published by Macmillan in Maths) was named as the best jazz act at MSc History of International Relations summer 2006. the UK’s MOBO (Music of Black Origin) 2005 2001) is a lecturer in American politics at awards. Rhian, the daughter of an African the , and has been father and a Welsh mother, studied at LSE awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder and Harvard. See www.rhianbenson.com Lehrman Institute of American History.

A London memento with a touch of class

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World Cup – what World Cup?

It has been a season of unprecedented success honours due to a nightmare start to the season. for the Economicals football club. Over 60 LSE Any resemblance of their post-Christmas form alumni represented the club this year, and the will see them cruise to the title next season. combination of fresh legs and wise old heads has Skipper Dean Taylor (BSc Management 2002) taken the Amateur Football Combination by storm. had his customary incredible season, finding You wait ages for an open-top bus and then two the net 28 times and winning games single- come along at once, so the saying goes, as the handedly. The third team languished in mid- second team and fourth team both clinched table obscurity due to inconsistency, despite their divisions in some style. The seconds, beating the top teams in their division. led by Chris Cooper (BSc Economics 1996), So spirits are high at the most active and most went through the campaign went through the successful alumni group, and with a fifth team campaign with a league record of 101 goals, ready to take to Berrylands’ palatial lawns next inspired by 37 goals from Dave Bains (BSc season, more success is a formality. Business, Mathematics and Statistics 2003), You can keep up to date with the progress of and will have nothing to fear in the higher division next season. the Economicals at the league website www. amateurfootballcombination.com or at www. More unexpected was the fourth team’s economicals.co.uk march to glory, as Fran Murray (BSc Business, Mathematics and Statistics 2004) marshalled Anyone looking to play for the Economicals, or a young team, helped along by the old fatter wishing to discuss sponsorship opportunities head of Sean Gollogly (BSc Government and (we can dream), please contact Chris Cooper Main picture, top row, left to right: The seconds team: Tom Winstone (BSc Economics 2004), Simon Law 1995), to the title. Heroes were the potent at [email protected] Wilson (non-LSE), Nick Wogan (BSc Economics with strikeforce of Alex Goddard (BSc Economics or on 07802419090 or Sean Gollogly at sean. Economic History 2001), Matt Miller (BSc Economics [email protected] or on 07831602291. 1998), Tommy Chatterton (BSc Social Policy 2001), 2005) and Rich Lomas (BSc Government and Matt Scott (BSc Management Science 2001), Rikos History 2004), who scored a combined total of Economicals cricket club also requires players Leong-Son (BSc Accounting and Finance 1996) 43 goals and terrorised defences in the process. for the new season. We play on Saturdays at Bottom row, left to right: Jarlath O’Hara (BSc Maths and Economics 2001), Chris Cooper (BSc Economics The flagship first team finished the season on Berrylands, and all standards are welcome. 1996), Dave Bains (BSc Business, Mathematics fire with a string of victories, but missed out on Please call or email Chris Cooper for more details. and Statistics 2003), Theo Ricketts (non-LSE)

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The School is sad to report the deaths of the following alumni, staff and honorary fellows.

Adshead, Betty (Certificate in Social Garlinski, Jozef (PhD 19) Kiev-born member came to LSE to study Eritrea’s quest for self Science 1952) of the Polish Home Army and historian. In determination, leading to a PhD and her book the Second World War he joined the Warsaw Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Horn of Africa, Ainuddin, Ali (MSc Social Policy and Planning Underground, was sent to Auschwitz and published in 2002. She served on the editorial 1998). Deputy secretary in the Federal later to Neuengamme. In his retirement he team of the journal Nations and Nationalism. Government of Canada. He worked as a completed a doctoral thesis at LSE on the She died aged 39. See many more tributes consultant with various donor agencies and concentration camp resistance movement that to Dominique at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ financial institutions. had cured him of anti-semitism, later published internationalrelations as Fighting Auschwitz. Andersen, Kazue H (Occasional Student Kaeser, Steven Dale (MSc Public Policy and (PhD 1951). Archivist of 1976). She is survived by her husband Holst Dr Howard Gotlieb Administration 1984). Practising attorney. After special collections at Boston University, which and three children, Yuki, Ken and Kai, who live graduating from LSE he attended Southern Illinois he successfully expanded, filling several miles of in Denmark, France and . University Law School and was later admitted shelves by the time of his death. As a child he to the Bar in Florida, Connecticut and California. had collected stamps; as an adult he collected Banks, Professor Joe (BA Sociology He worked as a practising attorney in West 1950, MA Sociology 1952). Sociologist and Picasso, Braque and Dali. Palm Beach FL and later joined Equator Bank. sociological historian, a leading authority on the (BSc Economic History 1959). He travelled extensively in Europe and Africa. Victorian family and its rapid reduction in size. In Hale, Alan President of the LSE Student’s Union in the June 1944 he married alumna Olive Davies and 1950s, and assistant director and dean of Malzer, Peter John Gabriel (BSc Accounting the two formed, for the next six decades, an the business school, North East London and Finance 1960). Chartered accountant. almost inseparable partnership, each becoming Polytechnic. A founder of the European Played cricket and football while at LSE and leading scholars. Association of Business and Management was an active member of the Cricket Club Teachers and a member of the British Council committee. Worked as a chartered Accountant advisory group on Business and Management for Arthur Andersen, Ford, Coopers and Lybrand Education, he was instrumental in setting up the and JPMorgan, spending five years in Australia. MBA programme in the UK. Lord Merlyn-Rees (BSc Economic History Hanson-Kahn, Cyril (BSc Economics 1963). 1949, MSc Economic History 1952). After Teacher. Studied part time for his BSc, while being UK home secretary during some of supporting five children. He was of Turkish the toughest years of the 1970s Labour origin, born in Shanghai. He spent two years government, he led an active political life in the Britton CBE, Professor Dennis (BSc as a Japanese POW, worked in the US, and House of Lords. Tony Blair called him a ‘leading Statistics and Mathematics 1940). British then relocated to England. He was called up for figure in our party for decades’. A wartime RAF agricultural economist with a worldwide National Service and posted to RAF Kidbroke. He squadron leader who flew Spitfires in Italy, he reputation. He was instrumental in founding then turned to teaching, in England and in Taiwan. the European Association of Agricultural was a realist on the Labour right, associated with controversial policies including the Economists and was elected as its president. Harrison, Bill (BSc Economics 1971, MSc He was appointed a CBE for his public service. Economics 1972). City financier, originally from 1968 Immigration Act, resistance to freedom Birmingham, who held prominent positions in of information laws and enforcement of a Cousins, Dr Christine Ruth (MPhil 1975). seven banks, as well as two oil companies and strengthened Official Secrets Act in the 1970s. Taught at the University of Hertfordshire, and his own corporate finance boutique. At LSE, He also presided, as incoming Northern Ireland was editor of Work, Employment and Society. he gained an MSc with distinction. He died secretary, over the 1974 loyalist workers’ strike aged 57. which hit power stations in the province. Frank, Dan (MSc Sociology 2004). Died aged 24. Literary editor of the Catholic Herald. He Montague JR, Joel B (MSc Sociology 1951). was the first Jewish atheist on the staff of the Sociologist. Known as ‘Monty’ to his friends, he newspaper, yet never allowed the enormous was recognised for his work on many occasions gulf between his world view and that of the and made a contribution to the theory and Herald’s readers to interfere with his duties as application of sociology. a reporter, feature writer and books editor. His LSE dissertation, ‘The Word and the World: theology after the sociology of knowledge’, describing the undermining of religious Jacquin-Berdal, Dominique (PhD orthodoxy by developments in epistemology, International Relations 1999). Lecturer in the is scheduled for publication next year. International Relations Department at LSE. She

44 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2006 I available tomorrow, but not for 90 minutes!’ His friends remember a stimulating companion and a cheerful and loyal friend.

Scales, Sidney Richard (BSc Economics 1947). Said to have put the German government ‘under arrest’ in 1945 – he happened to be in the particular platoon and Nathan, Adrian Paul (LLM 2002). Associate possessed the right linguistic skills. He was Sopiee, Tan Sri Dr Nordin (BSc Economics at the corporate law firm Edward Nathan. also one of two British soldiers to receive the 1967, PhD International Relations 1972). He was a part time lecturer at the University Mayor of Michelin’s Speech, before the mayor Chairman and chief executive officer of of Witswaterand in South Africa and was died a few hours later. He fondly referred to LSE the Institute of Strategic and International posthumously awarded his Higher Diploma in lecturers in his evening classes. Studies. A former editor-in-chief of the New Corporate law. Straits Times, he made a crucial contribution to the national blueprint, Vision 2020. Selwyn, Victor (BSc Economics 1939). Editor- (BSc Economics 1949). Ridler, Duncan in-chief of the Salamander Oasis Trust, which Spent most of his career working with the he helped found in 1976, with the support of United Nations. He helped devise an Integrated such ex-servicemen as Professor Ian Fletcher, Programme for Commodities for UNCTAD, Denis Healey and Spike Milligan, to collect aimed at stabilising the export earnings of mainly and publish the poetry and diaries of men and developing country producers of a selected women from the second world war. Born in number of commodities, and a Common Fund London, to Lithuanian parents, he graduated to finance the necessary stocks. Prior to his work from LSE before the war, then served in the at UNCTAD, he was director of the Commodities Surrey regiment in north Africa and in Italy as Division of the IMF. He came to LSE, after Stambrook, Dr Frederick (PhD 1960). a navigation officer. After the war, he worked distinguished military service, under the further Dean emeritus of the University of Manitoba. mainly as a freelance journalist, writing on training and education scheme. He worked in the British Foreign Office on athletics, economics and medical subjects for the translation of captured German Foreign and The Times. He was (BCOM 1950). Teacher and local Office war documents at Whaddon Hall, Rogers, Noel awarded the MBE in 1996 in recognition of his councillor. ‘Taff’ went to LSE at Cambridge in Buckinghamshire. contribution to Second World War literature. 1943, then into the Army Education Corps, returning to his course in September 1948. Singh, Tarlok (BSc Economics 1935). LSE He played in goal for the First Hockey X1, was honorary fellow, 1963. Member of the Indian treasurer of the Athletic Union, and married Civil Service from 1937 to 1962 and the fellow student Margaret MacWilliam in 1949. first private secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru, After graduating he went into teaching becoming the first prime minister of India. Much of his head of the Department of Law, Economics and early formative thinking on issues of poverty, Business Studies at Holland Park Comprehensive economic development and social change School. He was inaugural chairman of the began at LSE, where he studied under Harold Wells, Peter (LLB Law 1968). Solicitor and Wimbledon Park Residents Association, and a Laski and formed life long friendships with prominent figure in his local community of councillor in Merton before he and his wife moved people such as the late Lord Robbins and the Epping. He was a senior partner in Kennard, to East Devon (see LSE Magazine, winter 2005). late Vera Anstey. He was intimately involved Wells and had recently been appointed a full with the planning process for India, serving on time chairman in the Employment Tribunal. He Rowntree, Brian (BSc Banking and Finance the Planning Commission from its inception died aged 59. 1949) and former governor. A member of until 1967. He was the Director General of the famous old Quaker family from York, he Rehabilitation in the Punjab responsible for the (BSC International entered the Royal Navy at 17, training as an Williams, Robert Alan resettlement of over ten million refugees. He Relations 1952). Senior tax inspector for the UK artificer, served on aircraft carriers and was at was the first chairman of the Indian Association Inland Revenue. the landings at Salerno in Italy in 1943. Later of Social Science Institutions and was awarded he went to the Pacific on HMS Indefatigable, the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan which flew air strikes against mainland Japan. and the Padma Shri by the president of India. After graduating from LSE he was employed by Kleinwort Benson investment bankers and He was also awarded the Soderstrom Medal became one of their directors. Later he worked for Economics in 1970 by the Royal Swedish for the Bank of America and was manager of Academy of Science in . His books the Anglo-Portuguese Bank. He spoke fluent include Poverty and Social Change, Land French and German, but also had a distinguished Resettlement Manual for Displaced Persons, career in the LSE third eleven football team and The Planning Process, Towards an Integrated was elected secretary in his second year. He Society and India’s Development Experience. was the prime architect in the founding of The Economicals FC in 1950-51, remaining secretary for many years. He went on playing as long as he could, especially enjoying the Easter tours, and even in his fifties would say on Friday nights: ‘I’m

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Adapting to Russia’s The State on the Streets: events and crises, dealing with the paradox New Labour Market police and politics in of managing the potentially unmanageable. Sarah Ashwin Argentina and Brazil Organisational responses are influenced by many factors, such as the representational Routledge Mercedes S Hinton capacity of information systems and concerns 228pp £70 h/b Lynne Reiner Publishers with legal liability. In this collection, leading 235pp £39.50 h/b This book examines how men and women experts on risk management from a variety of are coping with the transformation of the How Latin American governments will respond disciplines address these complex issues and Russian labour market since the collapse of to popular outcry against unprecedented levels raise critical questions about how risk can be communism. It was anticipated that women of both corruption and crime ranks among understood and conceived by organisations, would be the main losers from reform. This the principal political questions of this decade. and whether it can be ‘managed’ in any realistic prediction has not been realised, and men have This book focuses on the tense interplay of sense at all. received increasing attention as it has become police, democracy, state, and civil society in clear that many of them are finding it difficult the region, using the cases of Argentina and to adjust to new conditions. This book aims New Modes of Brazil as a lens. The author draws on her rare Governance in the to identify and explain gender differences in access to a wide spectrum of actors in the responses to Russia’s transformed economic Global System: exploring two countries, including top police officials and publicness, delegation environment, and to reveal the way in which street patrolmen, military officers and legislators, these influence both labour market outcomes and inclusiveness clergy and prostitutes, business owners Editors: Mathias Koenig- and the well being of men and women. and shantytown residents, to present a vivid Archibugi, with Michael Zurn account of politics on the ground. Palgrave Macmillan Adjusting to EMU 256pp £45 h/b Iain Begg, Imelda Maher, Chinese Nationalism Globalisation processes are propelling a with Brian Ardy, Dermot in a Global Era Hodson, David G Mayes transformation of governance. As political Christopher R Hughes Palgrave problems become more transnational, public RoutledgeCurzon 368pp £55 h/b as well as private actors increasingly perform 256pp £65 h/b £18.99 p/b governance activities beyond the level of This book provides an original and wide- individual states. This book examines the wide Drawing on the explosion of writings about ranging analysis of the impact of Economic variety of forms that governance can take in nationalism in the Chinese speaking world, this and Monetary Union (EMU) on economic the global system and their consequences. An book highlights the main themes of the Chinese governance in the EU and in several key overarching analytical framework is applied nationalist tradition and shows how they are Member States within and outside the Euro to global institutions and initiatives in areas central to the discourse of Chinese politics area. Its emphasis is on adaptation: how such as trade liberalisation, financial market and foreign policy today. Christopher Hughes EMU encourages change in national and regulation, privacy protection, cybercrime, and analyses trends within Chinese nationalism, EU institutions and in national economic food safety. explaining the principles behind contemporary regimes. It brings together economic, political debates as they have unfolded since the late science and legal perspectives to explain how 1980s. Presenting a number of perspectives, A Sociology of national economies adapted, the dynamics of including those of the state and dissent in Jurisprudence policy making and the complex web of laws, mainland China as well as alternative views from Richard Nobles and processes and actors in the EMU. Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, he David Schiff sets current discussions within the context of the Hart Publishing Social Policy long history of Chinese nationalism. 128pp £16 p/b Hartley Dean Nobles and Schiff, both readers in law at Polity Press Organizational LSE, have written together extensively on 176pp £45 h/b £12.99 p/b Encounters with Risk criminal justice and jurisprudence. Much Editors: Bridget Hutter, of their recent work is informed by the In this short introduction, Hartley Dean explains Michael Power sociological theory of Niklas Luhmann whose the extraordinary scope and importance of Cambridge University Press sociological theory treats law, along with social policy. He explores its foundations 282pp £45 h/b £19.99 p/b politics, economics, media and ethics, as and contemporary significance, the principal systems of communication. His theory not issues it addresses and their diverse economic, Organisational encounters with risk range from only offers profound and novel insights into political and sociological dimensions, and errors and anomalies to outright disasters. In the character of the legal system in modern concludes by looking at the fundamental a world of increasing interdependence and society, but also provides an explanation challenges facing social policy in a dramatically technological sophistication, the problem of for the role of jurisprudence as part of changing world. He examines the ways in understanding and managing such risks has that legal system. This book presents an which governments and peoples throughout grown ever more complex. Organisations accessible introduction to them. The authors the world attend to, promote, neglect or even and their participants must often reform and seek to explore and develop his claim that undermine the things that make life worth living. reorganise themselves in response to major jurisprudence is part of law’s self description.

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The Emergency Teacher A Land Fit For Criminals Application of Christina Asquith (MSc David Fraser (Diploma Quantitative Techniques Philosophy and Public in Social Administration for the Prediction of Bank Policy 2001) 1966; Certificate in Social Acquisition Targets West Parley Press, 2006 Administration 1967) Sailesh Tanna (BSc Economics 288pp $19.95 p/b Book Guild Ltd, 2006 1980 ; MSc Econometrics 1982), 528pp £17.99 h/b with Fotios Pasiouras, The experiences of investigative reporter Christina Constantin Zopounidis Asquith as an ‘emergency-certified’ teacher The author, a long-serving senior probation World Scientific, 2005 inside Philadelphia’s worst middle school. officer analyses how and why Britain faces the 292pp £33 h/b spiralling crime figures it does today. The author discusses quantitative classification Lincoln’s Other methods for the prediction of bank acquisitions. White House New Media Campaigns Elizabeth Smith Brownstein and the Managed Citizen (MSc International Philip N Howard (MSc British Buckeyes: the Relations 1967) Development Studies 1994) English, Scots, and Welsh John Wiley & Sons, 2005 CUP, 2005 in Ohio, 1700-1900 272pp £15.99 h/b 288pp £23.99 p/b William E Van Vugt (PhD Economic History 1986) This book offers a critical assessment of the role This book offers a unique perspective on Lincoln’s Atlas Books, 2006 that information technologies have come to play life at the most important unknown presidential 295pp $55 h/b site in the country, Soldiers’ Home. in contemporary political campaigns. This book looks at the influence of British immigrants in shaping Ohio’s politics and Early Recollections: Public Policy in Israel: institutions. interpretative method perspectives and and application practices Editor: Dani Korn Dr Roger Di Pietro (MSc (MPhil Risikomanagement Government 1976; PhD Social Psychology 1998), Claus von Campenhausen Government 1989) with Harold Mosak (MSc International Accounting Routledge, 2005 Lexington Books, 2005 and Finance 1992) 235pp $25 p/b 304pp £24.99 h/b Orell Füssli, 2006 This volume presents a framework for 256pp 34.80 We cannot recollect the past without skewing it understanding the fractured decision making by our current perceptions. This book offers a process in a politically divided Israel. Building on his experience gained on both sides step by step approach to interpretation. of the Atlantic, the author explains for general management the concept of risk management. The Tainted Shadow Downing Street Diary: Maleeha Kamal with Harold Wilson in (BSc Environmental Policy and Migrant Nurses: No 10 Economics 2005) motivation, integration Bernard Donoughue (former and contribution staff member and governor) Contact Publishing, 2005 242pp £9.99 p/b Andrea Winkelmann-Gleed Pimlico, 2006 (MSc Industrial Relations 2000) 800pp £14.99 p/b In 18th century Yemen, a teenage Jewish girl, Radcliffe Publishing, 2006 living in a Muslim environment, strives to fit in. 144pp £23.50 p/b In 1974, Bernard Donoughue, a young LSE Her desire for happiness leads her to divorce academic, was invited by Harold Wilson to found her physical identity from her spiritual one. This book analyses the motivation for individuals and run the Policy Unit at Number Ten Downing to migrate, their experiences of integration into Street. An intimate and explosive account. Rwanda’s Genocide: the an existing work team and their contribution. politics of global justice Inside the House of Money Kingsley Moghalu (PhD For Love and Liberty Steven Drobny (MSc International Relations 2005) Robin Young (MSc 1970) Accounting and Finance 1997) Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 Thunders’ Mouth Press, 2006 Wiley, 2006 240pp £25 h/b 830pp $35 h/b 400pp £16 h/b This book examines the political and strategic This book lifts the veil on the typically opaque factors that shape a path-breaking war crimes world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse tribunal and demonstrates why the trials at This book tells the inspiring story of Sullivan at how today’s highest paid money managers Arusha are more than just prosecutions of Ballou, the soldier made famous in Ken Burn’s approach their craft. culprits, but also politics by other means. film, The Civil War.

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