St Antony’s students jointly awarded Jeremy Cresswell Prize

St Antony’s students Daniel Minden and Kadir Serdar Zengin have won the Jeremy Cresswell Prize for the best MSt Diplomatic Studies dissertations. Both Daniel and Kadir achieved a mark of 75% in their dissertations and graduated with distinction overall in their course. The prize is named in honour of Jeremy Cresswell, who was a British Ambassador and Director of the MSt in Diplomatic Studies programme. Daniel and Kadir comment that ‘receiving an award in his name carries a very special meaning for us as two Antonians in the cohort’.

Daniel’s dissertation was titled Power of the Podium: An empirical critical and comparative case analysis of NATO Secretary General leadership in the public spotlight, 2014-2025.

Kadir’s dissertation was on Layered Autonomy: A Theory-Building Empirical Study of Türkiye’s Indigenous Defence Industry as a Tool of Diplomacy Post-2018.