Television News
Slate, 03.21.13 >>
CNN International, "The Brief", 03.15.13 >>
Slate, 03.08.13 >>
Slate, 02.22.13 >>
Slate, 02.08.13 >>
"Inside Story", Al Jazeera English, 10.22.12 >>
Business Innovation Factory, 09.19.12 >>
"Inside Story", Al Jazeera English, 08.02.12 >>
OWS Long Island City, 06.27.12 >>
Personal Democracy Forum, New York, 06.12.12 >>
MSNBC, 06.01.12 >>
Comedy Central, 05.01.12 >>
PBS, US (multiple stations), 04.05.12 >>
Moyers and Company, 03.30.12 >>
MSNBC, 12.19.11 >>
Sky 515 TV and Press TV, 09.07.11 >>
CNN International, Connect the World, 04.19.11 >>
Channel 4 Television, 03.24.11 >>
Al Jazeera English TV, 03.18.11 >>
BBC World Service Radio, The World Today (0800GMT, interview at approx 0830)), 03.06.11 >>
Al Jazeera English, 02.26.11 >>
BBC2 Newsnight, 02.25.11 >>
BBC World Service TV, World Have Your Say, 02.25.11 >>
BBC Radio Scotland, Newsweek (interview at 35 mins), 02.19.11 >>
Al Jazeera English, 02.06.11 >>
BBC World Service TV, 01.24.11 >>
BBC World Service TV, 01.24.11 >>
The Nation, 01.19.11 >>
GRIT TV (New York City), 01.04.11 >>
Channel 4 Television, 01.01.11 >>
Top Documentary Films website, 01.01.11 >>
Personal Democracy Forum, 12.12.10 >>
China Radio International, 12.08.10 >>
Diplomatically Incorrect, UNTV, 12.08.10 >>
Diplomatically Incorrect, UNTV, 12.08.10 >>
Russia Today TV, 12.03.10 >>
CNN International, 12.01.10 >>
Democracy Now!, 11.29.10 >>
BBC World Service Television, 11.29.10 >>
BBC World Service Radio, Newshour, 11.29.10 >>
BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight, 11.29.10 >>
BBC News Channel, 11.29.10 >>
Channel Four News, UK, 11.27.10 >>
"Here on Earth", NPR Wisconsin (also on podcast, at the link), 11.04.10 >>
YouTube, and TEDx Gotham, 10.15.10 >>
Global Policy Forum, New York, 08.03.10 >>
Al Jazeera, 07.14.10 >>
Channel 4 News, 01.29.10 >>
BBC, 01.29.10 >>
BBC, 01.27.10 >>
BBC, 01.27.10 >>
BBC, 11.26.09 >>
Channel 4 News, 11.24.09 >>
Business Innovation Factory, 10.07.09 >>
Al Jazeera, 01.23.08 >>
Channel 4 News, 06.26.07 >>
BBC World Service TV, Hardtalk, 02.06.07 >>
Al Arabiya, 04.15.13 >>
The Independent (UK), 04.14.13 >>
New York Times, 04.13.13 >>
The Daily Mail (UK), 03.24.13 >>
Catalanweb, 02.02.13 >>
Foreign Policy, 11.26.12 >>
New York Review of Books, 10.23.12 >>
Labour Uncut, 09.30.12 >>
Globe and Mail, 09.14.12 >>
Forbes, 08.15.12 >>
Huffington Post, 07.18.12 >>
Huffington Post, 07.17.12 >>
Rolling Stone, 06.21.12 >>
Irish Times, 06.14.12 >>
The Guardian, 05.29.12 >>
Truthdig, 05.07.12 >>
The Brooklyn Rail, 05.01.12 >>
Washington Post, 04.27.12 >>
The Cynical Times, 02.13.12 >>
The Guardian, 02.10.12 >>
Redcliffe College (reviewer is Jonathan Ingleby), 02.01.12 >>
Calcalist, 01.31.12 >>
The New York Journal of Books, 01.19.12 >>
Huffington Post, 01.17.12 >>
Global Post, 01.06.12 >>
The Budapest Times, 01.06.12 >>
Mother Jones, 12.13.11 >>
The Daily Telegraph, 11.18.11 >>
LO-tidningen (Sweden), 11.07.11 >>
Huffington Post, 11.02.11 >>
Total Politics, 10.10.11 >>
El Pais (Spain), 10.09.11 >>
The Financial Times, 10.08.11 >>
Sahara Press Service, 10.06.11 >>
The New Yorker, 10.02.11 >>
Los Angeles Times, 09.29.11 >>
The Daily Telegraph (UK), 09.24.11 >>
UPI Press Agency, 09.23.11 >>
Voice of America, 09.22.11 >>
Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch's "Turtle Bay" blog, 09.22.11 >>
The New Internationalist, 09.14.11 >>
The Economist, 09.10.11 >>
London School of Economics, 09.08.11 >>
The Observer, 09.08.11 >>
Channel 4 Television, 09.02.11 >>
The Guardian, 08.30.11 >>
Charity Insight, 07.29.11 >>
Toronto Review of International Affairs, 06.30.11 >>
Foreign Policy (Turtle Bay blog), 03.23.11 >>
The Budapest Times, 03.23.11 >>
Foreign Policy: Turtle Bay, 03.18.11 >>
Financial Times, 03.18.11 >>
Tehran Times, 03.16.11 >>
RCR Wireless, 03.16.11 >>
The Economist, 03.11.11 >>
Reuters, 03.10.11 >>
New York Times, 03.07.11 >>
Toronto Star, 03.07.11 >>
The First Post, 03.07.11 >>
Foreign Policy, 02.28.11 >>
The Daily Telegraph, 02.28.11 >>
The New York Times, 02.26.11 >>
Mother Jones, 02.24.11 >>
Foreign Policy (Turtle Bay blog), 02.23.11 >>
The Guardian, 02.05.11 >>
Al Jazeera news website, 02.05.11 >>
ForeignPolicy.com, 02.05.11 >>
The Gulf Times, 01.25.11 >>
Associated Press, 01.23.11 >>
The Independent (UK), 01.05.11 >>
Personal Democracy Forum, TechPresident blog, 12.15.10 >>
The Guardian, 12.15.10 >>
Dagesvisen (Norway), 12.14.10 >>
Personal Democracy Forum, 12.12.10 >>
Excelsior, Brazil, 12.08.10 >>
The New Yorker magazine, 12.06.10 >>
The Harvard Gazette, 12.03.10 >>
The Guardian, 11.29.10 >>
The Guardian, 08.01.10 >>
Financial Times, 07.22.10 >>
The Guardian, 07.12.10 >>
The Evening Standard (UK), 07.12.10 >>
Financial Times, 10.09.09 >>
Financial Times, 07.30.09 >>
BBC, 03.19.09 >>
Daily Mail, 03.19.09 >>
Metro, 01.23.09 >>
Toronto Star, 09.30.08 >>
Financial Times, 09.24.08 >>
TIME, 04.03.08 >>
New York Times, 03.03.07 >>
The Independent (UK), 12.15.06 >>
The Independent (UK), 12.15.06 >>
The Independent, 12.15.06 >>
Guardian, 11.18.05 >>
Guardian, 06.20.05 >>
Financial Times, 02.05.05 >>
Radio
Newstalk (Ireland), 03.17.13 >>
The Takeaway, National Public Radio, 08.03.12 >>
ABC Radio National, Australia, 06.01.12 >>
"Morning Edition" National Public Radio, 03.27.12 >>
"The Forum" BBC World Service Radio, 03.18.12 >>
"The Takeaway", WNYC Radio, National Public Radio, 02.07.12 >>
National Public Radio (WNYC), 01.18.12 >>
Public Radio International (NPR stations across US), 09.23.11 >>
The Takeaway, WNYC, National Public Radio, 08.24.11 >>
BBC World Service Radio, 05.17.11 >>
BBC World Service Radio, 05.14.11 >>
BBC World Service Radio, 03.26.11 >>
BBC World Service Radio "Newshour", 03.19.11 >>
BBC Radio 4, The World at One, 03.18.11 >>
China Radio International, 03.07.11 >>


My book, Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite, offers a critique of contemporary diplomacy drawn from my own experience as a diplomat. In analysing the many deficits of the current system - and how that system produces bad decisions - it also offers a vision of what can be put right. You can see more here: