Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Right, I think we're about ready to start as we clear the glass off the stage.

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  It's a good sign, I think, that we're going to have a good discussion.

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  Welcome to the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture.

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  where the title of the talk is Revolutions and World Order, Still the Sixth Great Power?

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  I'm lucky enough, honoured enough, to be the chair tonight.

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  I'm Toby Dodge and I teach in the International Relations Department.

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  I'm flanked on either side by George Lawson and Jasmine Garnie,

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  who I'll introduce more fully in a minute.

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  But I just thought it's a pleasure to be chairing tonight,

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  and I thank Rohan Mukherjee and Nita Lumi for organising this,

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  because they've put a lot of time into bringing you all here.

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  And this lecture honours Professor Fred Halliday,

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  who was born in 1946 in Dublin and died in Barcelona in 2010, aged 64.

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  And I think it would be worth reminding ourselves why we hold this lecture each year and why Fred Halliday is such a huge figure,

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  both in the Lund School of Economics, in left-wing politics,

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  in Middle East studies, and in international relations.

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  He had an early career in radical journalism, moved to the Transnational Institute,

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  was on the New Left Review's editorial board until he left in 1983.

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