Alexander Evans
@aiaevans
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Professor in Practice & Associate Dean @LSEPublicPolicy, @LSEIdeas. Geopolitics, Tech & Policy. 🇬🇧 diplomat worked / lived in 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇺🇳🇺🇸🇬🇷🇩🇪🇳🇬
London, England
Joined April 2012
The difference between patriotism and uncritical nationalism is doubt and irony, both deeply underrated qualities
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Sad news. James Mayall taught me as an undergraduate and was a brilliant teacher and kind man. He was also, I believe, the last surviving British diplomat who served in @UKinIndia Delhi High Commission in the 1960s - on which I interviewed him about 18 months ago. RIP.
https://t.co/ICH817Fr0Z James Mayall has died. He was one of the doyens of African & international studies in the UK. He and I were discussing mortality just a month ago after good friends had died. He seemed well then. He examined my PhD decades ago and was the finest colleague.
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🌐 We were delighted join @sciencespo & @LSEnews for an event on the Future of #CyberSecurity, opened by @OECDinnovation's Florian Schutz, @Microsoft's Jeff Bullwinkel, @PSIASciencesPo's Constance de Leusse & @LSEPublicPolicy's @aiaevans. Our panel focused on the current state
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Diplomacy between 🇧🇩-🇵🇰 has been buoyant in the last year & signs are it is set to continue. @LisaCurtisDC @aiaevans @iamthedrifter & @ZafarSobhan discuss the changing geopolitics. 📅 Mon, 10 Nov -- ONLINE only 🕒 3pm🇬🇧 8pm🇵🇰 9pm🇧🇩 🗣️ & 🆓 Reg details: https://t.co/9yoMNUzHgp
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“Physically and emotionally, it changes the quality of my life” Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit. https://t.co/29YFMFo90y via @NYTimes
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We met five remarkable people who’ve lived for more than a century and have yet to retire. For them, a working life is a richer one.
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China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game https://t.co/uhUhjGysOU via @NYTimes
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Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.
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Smart idea: Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free via @FT
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce
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A pleasure to be back on the BBC World News today to discuss PM Starmer’s visit to India. @UKinIndia @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEnews
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As national governments across Europe turn to mayors to lead on countrywide priorities — local progress matters more than ever. From housing to transport to jobs and more, their mayors have the opportunity to lead the way — so long as they have the capabilities their city halls
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"The data reveal that national security officials’ intuitions are overwhelmingly overconfident. For example, when study participants estimated that statements had a 90 percent chance of being true, those statements were true just 58 percent of the time." (h/t @rajesh_basrur)
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Fast Stream gets biggest ever number of applicants (and the diplomatic and development stream has a 0.2% success rate, underlining how appealing it is) @FCDOGovUK @CSWnews @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEIRDept @lseideas
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More than 70,000 apply for 2025 Fast Stream intake, newly-published data shows
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Where have Reform’s supporters come from? Less than two in five of their supporters voted Reform in 2024: a fifth voted Conservative last year, a fifth did not vote, and 15 per cent voted Labour.
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There's a lot to be said for gatherings like this. Time to think, listen, and learn. And where better to do this that at Casa Ratiu in Transylvania, under a Parliament of Owls. My huge thanks to the Ratiu Foundation and family for making this possible. 5/5
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There was real debate: about Trump, Europe, Ukraine, populism, cognitive warfare and disinformation. And a proper sense of perspective: discussion too of history, and some pushback on whether this all looks like an essentially European (rather than global) discussion. 4/5
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While the former Deputy Secretary General of NATO and Foreign Minister of Romania, Mircea Geoană, set out a compelling take on what Europeans can do given the new geopolitical context. 3/5
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Katrin Jacobsdottir, former PM of Iceland, brought a wider perspective, sharing how the context has changed in the North Atlantic and Arctic - and sharing her insights on women and gender equality in policymaking. 2/5
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Insights and different perspectives at the @lseideas @ForumRatiu Dialogues in Transylvania this weekend, with speakers including the former PM of Iceland and former DSG of NATO, joined by academics, politicians, diplomats, journalists and business. 1/5 @LSEnews
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