Collapse Of The Soviet Empire - Reflections From An Insider Autumn 2006 | Public Lectures And Events

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Contributor(s): Dr APJ Abdul Kalam President of India | Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, delivered the closing speech at the forum's banquet dinner. The dinner was held in memory of former President of India KR Narayanan, who was an LSE Alumnus.

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Asia Forum 2006 Welcome Dinner 32:39

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Contributor(s): Sir Nicholas Stern, Neville Tuli | Indian Alumni and alumni from across Asia attended an alumni reception the evening before the Asia Forum. LSE director Howard Davies hosted this drinks reception and that was attended by many of the School's senior academics who spoke at the Forum. Sir Nicholas Stern, the first holder of the IG Patel Chair at LSE addressed the reception along with alumnus Neville Tuli who spoke on Art and Development. The reception took place in the Taj Palace Hotel, Sardar Patel Marg, Diplomatic Enclave, New Delhi.…

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Asia Forum 2006 Session Three : Society 1:47:37

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Contributor(s): Professor Robert Wade, HE Sun Yuxi, Dr Purna Sen, Professor Lord Meghnad Desai | Discussions were led by LSE academics: Professor Danny Quah, Head of Economics Department; Dr Razeen Sally, senior lecturer in international political economy and head of the international trade policy unit and Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at DESTIN. Other speakers included: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi; Nandan M Nilekani, chief executive officer of Infosys; Mr Sun Yuxi, Chinese Ambassador to India, and Dr YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India.…

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Asia Forum 2006 Session Two : Governance 1:38:49

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Contributor(s): Dr Razeen Sally, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dr Mohammed Munir Abdul Majid, Kiran Karnik | Discussions were led by LSE academics: Professor Danny Quah, Head of Economics Department; Dr Razeen Sally, senior lecturer in international political economy and head of the international trade policy unit and Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at DESTIN. Other speakers included: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi; Nandan M Nilekani, chief executive officer of Infosys; Mr Sun Yuxi, Chinese Ambassador to India, and Dr YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India.…

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Asia Forum 2006 Session One : Reform 1:42:56

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Contributor(s): Professor Danny Quah, Sheila Dikshit, Nandan Nilekani, Turan Das, Professor Kishore Mahbubani | Discussions were led by LSE academics: Professor Danny Quah, Head of Economics Department; Dr Razeen Sally, senior lecturer in international political economy and head of the international trade policy unit and Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at DESTIN. Other speakers included: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi; Nandan M Nilekani, chief executive officer of Infosys; Mr Sun Yuxi, Chinese Ambassador to India, and Dr YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India.…

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Asia Forum 2006 Opening Session 58:13

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Contributor(s): Howard Davies, Professor Amartya Sen, Mervyn King, Professor William Cornish, Sir Nicholas Stern, Dr Manmohan Singh, Dr Y V Reddy | Discussions were led by LSE academics: Professor Danny Quah, Head of Economics Department; Dr Razeen Sally, senior lecturer in international political economy and head of the international trade policy unit and Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at DESTIN. Other speakers included: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi; Nandan M Nilekani, chief executive officer of Infosys; Mr Sun Yuxi, Chinese Ambassador to India, and Dr YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India.…

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Collapse of the Soviet empire - reflections from an insider 1:25:56

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Contributor(s): Andrei Grachev | Andrei Grachev official spokesman for the last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, explores the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991. Copyright (c)

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When Values Conflict: How citizens stakeholders and experts contributed to formulating policy for managing the UK's radioactive waste 1:20:18

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Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence Phillips | For over 40 years the UK Government has avoided the question of what to do with its radioactive waste. Sufficient wastes now exist in the UK to fill the Royal Albert Hall five times over. To solve this problem, the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) created the largest public consultation exercise ever conducted in the UK, resulting in a set of recommendations forwarded to the government this past July. This lecture will explain a key element in the process adopted by CoRWM. The lessons learned show how public debate can be conducted usefully to inform policy decisions at the highest levels of government.…

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Financial Reform in China: what next? 1:30:02

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Contributor(s): Howard Davies | Three of China's big four banks are now quoted on the Hong Kong exchange. Full World Trade Organisation membership is around the corner, but some in China are now calling for a halt in the reform programme. What can we expect in the next year?

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Morality and Media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone 1:28:41

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Contributor(s): Professor Stan Cohen, Richard Sambrook, Charlie Beckett, Robin Mansell, Professor Daniel Dayan, Professor Lilie Chouliaraki | This event will discuss the moral implications of the increasing globalisation of the media and our increasing dependence on those media for our understanding of the other in the world in which we live, the subject of Professor Roger Silverstone's book, Media and Morality: on the rise of the mediapolis (Polity, 2006).…

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The European Union and the Challenge of Globalisation 1:13:14

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Contributor(s): Matti Vanhanen | Matti Vanhanen is prime minister of Finland. Prior to this served as defence minister and he has been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 1991. Finland currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

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Will the Global 'War on Terrorism' be the New Cold War? 1:31:07

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