The #MeToo movement started with a single tweet — now, it has produced an international treaty.
One in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, while close to three in four report having been sexually harassed. Much of this violence occurs in the workplace, where power imbalances and economic pressures increase the risk of abuse. Yet 59 countries have no legislation specifically addressing workplace harassment.
This report, building on a workshop held at LSE IDEAS in December 2018 and supported by the Horizon 2020 UPTAKE and Global Challenges Research Fund COMPASS projects, brings together some of the UK’s foremost scholars on Russia, the EU and the post-Soviet space to evaluate the challenges and opportunities facing Russia’s 'Greater Eurasia’ foreign policy concept.
Topic:
International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Affairs
This report explores the impact of Brexit from an Irish perspective, explaining Europe’s role in improving Ireland-UK relations since 1970s and outlining the threat posed by Brexit to the political settlement in Northern Ireland.
In April 2019, LSE IDEAS produced a second edition of this report, containing a new contribution from Michael Burleigh, important updates from Paul Gillespie and Adrian Guelke, and a refreshed introduction from Michael Cox.
Topic:
International Political Economy, International Affairs, and Brexit
The conventional narrative is that China is, or will, by 2030, be the largest economy in the world. Based on commonly held expectations historically about prewar Germany, the USSR and Japan, greater humility would not go amiss. It is not preordained that past economic trends will continue, especially in view of a much compromised outlook for both China and the rest of the world in the 2020s
Topic:
International Political Economy and International Affairs
The EU referendum has thrown up many questions around globalisation as well as how to reposition Britain in the world after Brexit. The UK government’s professed intent to leave the European Union and negotiate its own free trade agreements means that Britain would be setting its own trade policies for the first time since 1973, and would need to explicitly set out the aims of British trade and associated foreign investment policies for the first time in four decades. With this in mind, clearly defining the UK’s economic diplomacy is crucial. Current global and domestic conditions are politically challenging. However, this offers an opportunity for the UK to take a lead in setting a helpful direction for the rest of the world, and ensuring that trade and investment policies benefit all in society.
The deep changes in Polish legal system and economy that took place after 1989
contributed to the emergence of new challenges for public administration. The legislator, in
order to satisfy growing numbers of social demands, appointed new tasks and created a new
legal form of action for public administration entities. However, not every of the new forms
were fitted to classically understood administrative law. Part of this new forms at the same
time combines some features characteristic for administrative law as well as typical for civil
law, which gives them untypical (hybrid) character. As an example, there can be mentioned:
civil law contracts with so called “overlays” (obligatory additional conditions) imposed by
certain legal acts as well as administrative settlements and administrative contracts. The aim
of this article is to analyze those hybrid forms of action of public administration entities in
terms of implementation the objectives of regulation set by the legislator.
: The article analyses the Polish political thought after 1989 concerning the local
self-government. Attention was drawn to various currents of the Polish political thought,
such as liberalism, conservatism, the teaching of the Church, social democracy or nationalism. Particular attention was paid to the role of the self-government in building civil society
and to the forms of citizen participation. According to the main hypothesis, the activity of
the local self-government is generally accepted. The self-government is an important element of political projects and is considered an important element of civil security and plays
an important role in building the civil society. The thought of Charles Taylor “the atrophy
of the self-government constitutes a danger for the stability of the liberal society and in the
consequence for the freedom protected by it” suited undoubtedly the liberals and the representatives of other political trends