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Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War (2024)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (2025). Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War. Foreign Policy Analysis, 21(1), Article orae036. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orae036

Can policy succeed through inactivity? Why does some inactivity lead to policy success, whilst others lead to policy failure? Whilst traditional approaches to policy success and failure have focused upon the impact of active policy interventions, thi... Read More about Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War.

The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights (2020)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (2020). The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31(3), 487-508. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2020.1782675

This article challenges the traditional approach to studying the creation of foreign policy within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Whilst most historical and contemporary research has focused upon the role of the Foreign Secretary, Permanent Un... Read More about The Role of the Policy Planning Staff in British Foreign Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Insights.

Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East (2018)
Book
Kettle, L. (2018). Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East. Edinburgh University Press

Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework (2016)
Journal Article
Kettle, L., & Mumford, A. (2017). Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 40(7), 523-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1237224

Terrorists learn every day to gain further knowledge on how to achieve their violent objectives. Consequently, understanding terrorist learning forms a crucial part of the fight to counter terrorism. However, whilst existing literature within terrori... Read More about Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework.

Learning to pull the strings after Suez: Macmillan’s management of the Eisenhower administration during the intervention in Jordan, 1958 (2016)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (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), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2016.1137733

This analysis re-instates the importance of the 1958 British intervention in Jordan within the study of Anglo-American relations and the revisionist literature on Suez. It does so by challenging the idea of British subservience to American foreign po... Read More about Learning to pull the strings after Suez: Macmillan’s management of the Eisenhower administration during the intervention in Jordan, 1958.

Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War (2014)
Journal Article
Kettle, L. (2016). Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War. Intelligence and National Security, 31(2), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2014.978549

Lessons for the intelligence community were publicly identified in a 1983 report by Lord Franks and 2004 report by Lord Butler. However, little is known of the lessons learned during the twenty years between the two. This article draws upon two newly... Read More about Between Franks and Butler: British intelligence lessons from the Gulf War.