Thinking Global Podcast – Christopher Hill
In the first part of our 2024 UK General Election series, Christopher Hill speaks about conceptualising ‘foreign policy’, post-Brexit foreign policy, and more.
Opinion – Labour’s Embrace of Realism: Progressive or Problematic?
The dilemmas facing UK foreign policy cannot be solved by the combination of a mechanistic realism and the profession of progressive aims.
Interview – Amrita Narlikar
Amrita Narlikar discusses lessons from the Mahabharat, as applied to contemporary India’s negotiation strategies and global approaches to foreign policy.
Review – Leadership
Henry Kissinger analyses the statecraft of six historic leaders, but his implications for future global governance ignores the potential of a unified European power.
Thinking Global Podcast – Jamie Gaskarth
Jamie Gaskarth speaks about British Foreign Policy, Brexit, the Commonwealth, what we should expect from David Cameron, and William Hague as an ‘activist’ foreign minister.
Opinion – The US Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons
While modernizing the US nuclear arsenal is a necessity, adding more nuclear weapons to the US stockpile is a costly and unnecessary endeavour.
Opinion – Turkish Foreign Policy after the 2023 Elections
Turkey’s assertive diplomatic style and preference for a transactional foreign policy has occasionally brought Ankara to the diplomatic brink with the European Union and the United States.
Strategic Intelligence Analysis and Foreign Policy Surprises in Kautilya’s Arthashastra
In the Kautilyan state intelligence analysis was structured to reflect its limitations and complemented by an expanding state power to tackle surprises.
US Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Counter-Orientalism to Neo-Orientalism
The USA can lend its support to pro-American regimes in the Middle East, and at the same time, encourage them to support semi-democratic institutions.
Opinion – Britain and the American South: A Special Relationship?
While the UK and the US South seek to improve understandings of one another’s society and politics, historical attempts have proved fruitless.
