My teachers used to call me a failure

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.