The Scottish Council on Global Affairs is the all-Scotland international relations institute. It marshals Scotland’s wide expertise on international affairs, supports the formulation of public policy, and provides a convening space for informed debate.
The Council provides a forum to bring together the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with civil society and academic expertise to encourage dialogue, debate and the dissemination of research on issues of global importance.
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The Scottish Council on Global Affairs is the all-Scotland international relations institute. It marshals Scotland’s wide expertise on international affairs, supports the formulation of public policy, and provides a convening space for informed debate.
The Council provides a forum to bring together the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with civil society and academic expertise to encourage dialogue, debate and the dissemination of research on issues of global importance.
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In this episode, the SCGA's John Edward speaks with Dr Benjamin Martill, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
We consider his research into the UK's relationship with the growing EU foreign and defence policy, how both sides responded to the protracted process of the UK's EU withdrawal, and the prospects for incremental development in the future We conclude with a look at how the landscape is changing once again with the invasion of Ukraine, its application for EU membership, and wider implications for the EU from NATO expansion.
For further reading see:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121211003789
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2023.2198578
https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad243
In addition, Ben has written an article for UK in a Changing Europe on 'compensatory foreign policy'.
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