International politics. Today’s guest writer is Glenn Diesen, a Norwegian political scientist and professor at the Department of Economics, History and Social Sciences at the University of Southeast Norway. He is also a specialist in Russian foreign policy and geopolitics. From 2018 to 2020 he was employed at the Moscow School of Economics. You will find Diesen at X, and might also want to subscribe to Prof. Glenn Diesen’s Substack.
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Ian Proud & Glenn Diesen. Ian Proud was a member of His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. Ian was a senior officer at the British Embassy in Moscow from July 2014 to February 2019, at a time when UK-Russia relations were particularly tense.
He performed a number of roles in Moscow, including as Head of Chancery, Economic Counsellor – in charge of advising UK Ministers on economic sanctions – Chair of the Crisis Committee, Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice Chair of the Board at the Anglo-American School.
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