Louise Kettle

Contact

• workRoom C2 Law and Social Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14866
• Louise.Kettle@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations.

Expertise Summary

I am interested in British foreign and security policy, particularly in relation to the Middle East. In the past I have also focused on military interventions in the Middle East and how lessons can be learned from these past operations to inform current and future policy.

Teaching Summary

I teach in the areas of International Relations, security and a specialist modue on the Middle East and the World.

Research Summary

I am interested in British foreign and security policy in relation to the Middle East historically (20th century forward) and contemporarily. I am also interested in the relationship between the past… read more

Selected Publications

• LOUISE KETTLE, 2016. Between Franks and Butler: British Intelligence Lessons from the Gulf War Intelligence and National Security. 31(2), 201-223
• LOUISE KETTLE, 2016. Learning to Pull the Strings after Suez: Macmillan’s Management of the Eisenhower Administration during the Intervention in Jordan, 1958 Diplomacy and Statecraft. 27(1), 45-64

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I am interested in supervising students who want to work on the following areas:

• British foreign policy (especially in relation to the Middle East)
• British military interventions in the Middle East
• UK-Iran relations
• The Iraq War
• The use of the past in contemporary policy-making.

Current Research

I am interested in British foreign and security policy in relation to the Middle East historically (20th century forward) and contemporarily. I am also interested in the relationship between the past and contemporary policy-making (lesson learning) and how history can be useful today.

I am currently researching Britain's foreign and security relationship with Iran.

• LOUISE KETTLE, 2021. Security. In: MICHAEL STEPHENS and CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS, eds., What next for Britain in the Middle East?: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit Bloomsbury.
• LOUISE KETTLE, 2020. The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights Diplomacy & Statecraft. 31(3), 487-508
• LOUISE KETTLE, 2018. Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East Edinburgh University Press.
• LOUISE KETTLE and ANDREW MUMFORD, 2017. Terrorist Learning: A New Analytical Framework Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 40(7), 523-538
• LOUISE KETTLE, 2016. Between Franks and Butler: British Intelligence Lessons from the Gulf War Intelligence and National Security. 31(2), 201-223
• LOUISE KETTLE, 2016. Learning to Pull the Strings after Suez: Macmillan’s Management of the Eisenhower Administration during the Intervention in Jordan, 1958 Diplomacy and Statecraft. 27(1), 45-64