Foreign Policy & International Relations

The veteran British diplomat Jeremy Greenstock talks about the history and future of diplomacy. On Iraq: ‘The magnificent work that was done was largely wasted, and lives with it – both Iraqi and outsiders’

The Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations discusses diplomacy versus coercion and selects five essential books on international relations.

Academic and author of textbooks on the field tells us that diplomacy can well do without rank amateurs "in the same way that medicine can do without snake-oil merchants"

The international relations professor tells us about the special relationship between America and Israel – how it came about, what it means, and how it should change

The Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics says there is fine line between being a hero and being a murderer - that's why the Geneva convention matters