The outgoing British ambassador to Lebanon hates the image of diplomats as stuck-up champagne-drinking mandarins, and goes out of his way to prove ...

That sound you hear is the massed ranks of long-departed British ambassadors turning in their graves. Some of us, alive but retired, have had to re ...

Global pessimism is in fashion. As after previous international financial crises, nations turn inwards when they should turn outwards. They become ...

It’s apt that Tom Fletcher finds himself living and working in Abu Dhabi. Its location – at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa & ...

The UAE has more open communication with its citizens than people abroad realise, acording to a senior adviser at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy. ...

When Aigul Saiapova decided to take up a political science course at New York University - Abu Dhabi, she did not expect to be propelled into a dig ...

“International systems live precariously. Every “world order” expresses an aspiration to permanence; the very term has a ring of ...