Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan: crisis and conflict in the context of a new cold war

Event on 7 November 2023

For five years, Niall Ferguson has warned of the dangers of a new cold war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the terrorist attacks on Israel, and the growing Chinese pressure on Taiwan cannot be seen in isolation, but must be understood as part of a global challenge to the predominance of the United States and its allies.

There are however important differences between Cold War II and Cold War I. In this lecture Niall Ferguson, visiting professor at the School of Public Policy will bring historical perspectives to his analysis of the emergent breakdown of the U.S.-led world order.

Meet our speaker and chair
Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) is visiting professor at the LSE School of Public Policy. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. A historian by training, Professor Ferguson received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1989. He has had a distinguished teaching career, having been a professor at Oxford, New York University and Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, and an accomplished biographer and journalist.

Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. He was previously the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006 and March 2010.