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Publications

Cold War History (2025)

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SoTL Collaborative Writing Groups (2024)

The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (2023)

International Intelligence History Association 2022 Annual Conference (2022)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (2022)

Teaching

Teaching:

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Undergraduate:

V1726/V1727 Classified: Spying on the World from 1945 to the PresentÌý

V1398/V1705 US Foreign Policy, 1945-1989Ìý

V1398/V1406 Cold War Europe, 1945-1991

V1320/V1407 Bombers and Mash: Britain and the Home Front, 1939-1945Ìý

V1216 History of the United States of America since 1877Ìý

V1217 Modern EuropeÌý

V1103 History 1BÌý

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Postgraduate:

V1996 Conflict Resolution in the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1947 – 1979Ìý

V1993 Evolution of DiplomacyÌý

V1994 Embassies in CrisisÌý

V1932 Research Skills and MethodsÌý

L2963 Contemporary Security Challenges and Responses

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At postgraduate level I convene and teach classes on the MSc in Diplomacy and International Security programme.Ìý

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My teaching reflects my interdisciplinary research interests in international relations, diplomacy and international history since the Second World War and the broader subject of secret intelligence, and conflict resolution, particularly international mediation.Ìý

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Research Interests

Research:

I am currently working on a book exploring Soviet Bloc’s operations in Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s when the East European case officers ran a string of agents inside Turkey’s security and counter-intelligence establishments. Their key aim was to work out and divulge the structure, organization, staffing, and working methods of the intelligence agencies in Turkey, their impact on the socialist countries, and the country’s connection with other NATO partners. This book, utilizing the hitherto unexploited primary material pertinent to the Soviet Bloc’s operations, fills a gap in literature extending our understanding of Turkey’s Cold War through the Eastern Bloc lenses.Ìý

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The key focus of my PhD was the field of conflict mediation, by evaluating the effectiveness of the process of concession-hunting yet still supporting the analysis with the assessment of its context. In terms of the context, the book deepened our understanding of the US foreign policy in the Arab-Israeli dispute and Henry Kissinger’s role as a mediator. Essentially, it explores the US mediation strategies applied during the Egyptian-Israeli conflict in the period of 1973-1975. It focused on the US role in bringing Egypt and Israel towards a settlement from the October War to the brink of the Camp David settlement. The centrepiece of the project was the mediation efforts during the Presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Professional Activities

Speaker

22/11/2023

Participant

23/10/2023

Participant

6/2023

Advisor

2023

Speaker

9/2022

Advisor

22/2/2022