Dr., Visiting Fellow London School of Economics LSE, Contemporary Turkish Studies
The results of the local elections in May were a harbinger of the impending political defeat. The Conservative Party lost half of the council seats it was trying to retain, including in regions considered strongholds of the party. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was expected to call an election before the end of this year. The
Turkey’s ties with the United States and European Union have been deteriorating in recent years, but there’s one major Western power with whom its relations have been deepening: the United Kingdom – such that many interpret the close bilateral ties as a new strategic partnership.[1] Perhaps that’s why, in the wake of last month’s Cyprus
After decades in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Ankara, Sir Peter Westmacott, has chosen to share with a wider audience his observations and anecdotes gleaned during his 40-year career. Westmacott’s book, “They Call It Diplomacy: 40 Years of Representing Britain Abroad,” questions the functionality of diplomacy at a
Diplomacy is the promotion of the national interest by peaceful means, contends, Hans J. Morgenthau, the father of classical realism in international relations. If the foreign office is the brain where foreign policy is formulated, diplomatic representatives are its eyes, ears and mouth – and even its fingertips. Tasked with representing their countries in foreign