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The EU and its Member States: increasing securitisation moves vis-à-vis China To what extent is the European Union successful in collectively securitising China in the economic domain?
Get PDFThe evolving EU-China economic relationship reflects a shift from cooperation to systemic rivalry, driven by China’s increasingly assertive geoeconomic posture and the European Union’s evolving focus on economic security. This article examines the EU's collective securitisation efforts, applying a political and legal lens to assess challenges and opportunities. While legal tools and strategic policy shifts in favour of “de-risking” signify progress, the Union faces substantial hurdles in aligning Member States’ diverse interests and perceptions of China as a threat. Drawing on the evolution of EU-China relations in the past three decades, the analysis underscores the need for enhanced policy coherence and pragmatic measures to address economic security risks. The findings advocate leveraging existing Treaty provisions to foster resilience and strategic autonomy, emphasizing that coordinated action is critical to navigating the complexities of EU-China relations
Fiscal relations in multilevel climate governance: how conditional project grants shape local climate action
Get PDFThis article investigates the fiscal underpinnings of multilevel climate governance (MLCG) by examining how competitive project grants shape local decarbonisation efforts in the United Kingdom. While MLCG literature has focused on institutional structures and regulatory authority, we argue that intergovernmental fiscal relations constitute a critical but underexplored dimension of climate governance. In particular, the literature has neglected that much of local climate action in Western countries gets financed through conditional, short-term, and competitive project-based grants. Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including 45 interviews and a survey of local authority officers, we show how the UK’s centralized and fragmented funding regime imposes ‘rules of the game’ that prioritize upward accountability, short-term deliverables, and visibility over locally grounded, long-term strategies. These dynamics fragment local bureaucracies, constrain strategic planning, and exacerbate regional inequalities in climate governance capacity. Our findings challenge assumptions about local autonomy and leadership in climate action, revealing how fiscal instruments function as tools of centralised control. We call for greater attention to the political economy of public finance in multilevel climate governance
Farm animal welfare in the UK what does the British public want, and should government policy reflect public opinion?
No full textCounting the invisible: why gendered data must lead the climate and health agenda at COP30
Get PDFThis piece argues that although the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health exposes the vast human and economic costs of climate inaction, gendered impacts remain largely invisible due to the absence of sex-disaggregated data. LSE MSc student Rupsa Chakraborty and Assistant Professor Miqdad Asaria highlight that women, especially those from marginalised communities in low- and middle-income countries, are most affected yet underrepresented in policymaking. As COP30 unfolds in Belém, Brazil, this article calls for gender-based data collection to be a central feature of the new Gender Action Plan to ensure equitable climate action
The UK’s Curriculum and Assessment Review an opportunity for media literacy?
Get PDFThe UK’s education system has recently undergone an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, which made recommendations to the government to ensure that the system remains fit for purpose. One of the Review’s recommendations was to enhance media literacy teaching. LSE’s Professor Lee Edwards reflects here on the position of media literacy in the Review, and what it will take to make a real difference to the status of media literacy in the country
Balancing health and mental health in a pandemic: a discrete choice experiment in 8 EU countries
No full textThe beautiful dataset
No full textNatural experiments, high stakes, expert subjects, knowledge of the precise objectives and exact rules, clean measurement, observability of strategies, incentives, actions and consequences, large datasets, exogenous rule changes, distinct social effects, and no Hawthorne effects. These and other desirable attributes for empirical work are found in sports settings. In sports, features that often characterize either the lab or the field are found simultaneously. Sports can offer the best of both worlds. Reluctance to recognize these advantages reflects a misunderstanding of the virtues of sports data, and this reluctance has discouraged the study of these settings and slowed down the production of knowledge. This survey reviews literature that shows how sports settings have made it possible to implement the first successful test, or the best test to date, of various models and hypotheses, and to discover new phenomena. It is not a question of what economics can do for sports, but what sports can do for economics