Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman
Professor of War Studies and Vice-Principal (Strategy and Development)
King’s College London
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
1
EDITED BOOKS
2
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
3
JOURNAL ARTICLES
11
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
21
BOOK REVIEWS
38
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
43
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat (London: Macmillan, l977) (Reprinted
l986 with new foreword)
Arms Production in the United Kingdom: Problems and Prospects (London: RIIA, July
l978)
The West and the Modernization of China (London: RIIA, May l979)
Britain and Nuclear Weapons (London: Macmillan for Royal Institute of International
Affairs, l980)
Arms Control In Europe (London: RIIA, June l98l)
Arms Control: Management or Reform (London: RIIA, September 1986)
Co-author, Terrorism (London: RIIA, October 1986)
The Military Threat (Greater London Area War Risk Study, Glawars Research Reports,
1986)
Strategic Defence in the Nuclear Age (London: IISS, Autumn, 1987)
The South Atlantic Crisis of 1982: Implications for Nuclear Crisis Management,
(RAND/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior, May 1989)
(With Martin Navias and Nicholas Wheeler) Independence in Concert: The British
Rationale for Possessing Strategic Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear History program:
Occasional Paper 5, Center for International Studies, University of Maryland, 1989
The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, (London: OUP for IISS, May 1998)
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (London: Macmillan for International Institute for
Strategic Studies, 1981); third edition 2004
Co-author (with Edwina Moreton, Gerald Segal and John Baylis), Nuclear War and
Nuclear Peace (London: Macmillan, l983); second edition, 1988
The Atlas of Global Strategy (London: Macmillan, l985)
The Price of Peace: Living with the Nuclear Dilemma (London: Firethorne, l986)
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Britain & the Falklands War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Inc, 1988)
Co-author (with Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse), Signals of War: The Falklands Conflict of
1982 (London: Faber and Faber, 1990)
Co-author (with Efraim Karsh), The Gulf Conflict 1990-91, Diplomacy and War in the
New World Order, (London: Faber, 1993)
The Politics of British Defence Policy, 1979-1998 (London: Macmillan 1999)
Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam (New York: OUP, 2000)
The Cold War (London: Cassels, 2001)
Deterrence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004)
(With Steven Everts, Charles Grant, François Heisbourg, Daniel Keohane, and Michael
O’Hanlon) A European Way of War (London: Centre for European Reform, 2004)
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, two volumes, (London:
Routledge 2005) (Vol. 1 Origins, Vol. 2 War and Diplomacy)
The Transformation in Strategic Affairs, (London: Routledge for IISS, April 2006)
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld &
Nicholson, 2008)
EDITED BOOKS
Editor, The Troubled Alliance: Atlantic Relations in the l980s (London: Heinemann,
l983)
Co-editor (with Philip Bobbitt and Gregory Treverton), US Nuclear Strategy: A Reader
(London: Macmillan, 1989)
Editor, Military Power in Europe: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Alford (London:
Macmillan, 1990)
Editor, Europe Transformed, (London: Tri-service Press, 1990)
Co-editor (with Michael Clarke), Britain in the World (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991)
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Co-editor (with John Saunders), Population Change and European Security (London:
Brassey's, 1991)
Co-editor (with Paul Hayes and Robert O'Neill), War, Strategy and International Politics:
Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
Editor, War: A Reader, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Editor, Military Intervention in Europe, (Oxford: Blackwells for Political Quarterly,
1994)
Co-editor (with Catherine McArdle Kelleher & Jane M.O. Sharp) The Treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of Post-Wall Arms Control (BadenBaden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996)
Editor, Strategic Coercion, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Editor, Super terrorism: Policy Responses (London: Blackwells, 2002)
Co-editor (with Jeffrey Michaels), Scripting Middle East Leaders: The Impact of
Leadership Perceptions on US and UK Foreign Policy, (London: Bloomsbury, 2012)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1978
‘The Consequences of Failure in SALT’ in Beyond SALT II (Christoph Bertram, ed.),
IISS Adelphi Paper 141, Spring 1978
‘The Superpowers’ and ‘Nuclear Proliferation’ in World War III, (Shelford Bidwell, ed.)
1978
1979
‘Strategic Weapons in the 1980s’ in RUSI and Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1980, Oct.
1979 (and succeeding years)
‘Whose Crisis? Britain as an International Problem’ in Is Britain Dying? (Isaac
Kramnick, ed.), 1979
1980
‘Britain's Defence Policy’ in Defence Policies of the Atlantic Alliance (Edwin Feeder,
ed.) 1980
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‘The Rationale for Medium-Sized Deterrence Forces’ in Adelphi Paper 160, The Future
of Strategic Deterrence, Part 1 (Christoph Bertram, ed.)
1981
‘The European Nuclear Powers: Britain and France’ in Cruise Missiles: Technology,
Strategy, Politics (Richard K. Betts, ed.), Brookings 1981
1982
‘Economic and Technical Factors in the Sino-Soviet Dispute’ in China, the Soviet Union
and the West (Stuart and Tow, eds.), 1982
‘Nuclear Options for Britain’ in Nuclear Deterrence (Donelo and Newman, eds.), 1982
‘The Triangle in Western Europe’ in The China Factor (Segal, ed.), 1982
‘The Conventional Option’ in What Hope in an Armed World (Harris, ed.), 1982
‘The Future of Arms-Control Negotiations’ in Allies in a Turbulent World (Alting von
Gesau, ed.), 1982
‘Arms Control: The Possibility of a Second Coming’ in The Crisis in Western Security
(Lawrence Hagen, ed.), 1982
‘Nuclear Arms Control’ in The Nuclear Debate (Phil Williams, ed.), 1982
1983
‘The Great Disarmament Debate’ in Britannica Book of the Year, 1983
‘Grande-Bretagne: La Nouvelle contestation anti-bombe’ in Pacifisme et Dissuasion
(Pierre Lellouche, ed.), 1983
‘Nuclear Attack: Civil Defence Aspects of Civil Defence in the Nuclear Age’ in
Brassey's 1983
‘Assured Detection: Needs and Dysfunctions of Verification’ in Soviet Power and
Western Negotiating Behaviour, Vol. 2. (Uwe Nerlich, ed.), 1983
‘The Military Dimension of Soviet Policy’ in The Soviet Union in East Asia (Segal, ed.),
1983
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1984
‘War, Nuclear’ Collier's Encyclopedia, 1984
‘The Future of the British Strategic Nuclear Deterrent’ in The Future of British Sea
Power (Till, ed.), 1984
‘Strategic Arms Control’ in Armed Peace (Josephine O'Connor Home, ed.), 1984
‘The Student of War as a Servant of Peace’ in Curricula-Course Development (Colin
Milner, ed.), 1984
‘The Small Nuclear Powers’ in Ballistic Missile Defense (David Schwartz and Ashton
Carter, ed.) 1984
‘Escalation and Arms Control’ in Nuclear Strategy and World Security, Pugwash 1984
‘The United States Factor’ in Soviet Strategy Toward Western Europe (Moreton and
Segal, eds.), 1984
1985
‘Strategic Studies’ in International Relations (Smith, ed.), 1985
‘The Wilderness Years’ and ‘The Role of Third Country Nuclear Forces’ in The Nuclear
Confrontation in Europe (Boutwell, et al., eds.), 1985
‘The `Star Wars' Debate: the Western Alliance and Strategic Defence’, Adelphi Paper
191 New Technology and Western Security Policy (London: IISS, 1985)
1986
‘Nuclear Weapons and Strategy’ in Studies of War and Peace (Oyvind Osterud,
ed.), 1986
‘British Nuclear Targeting’ in Strategic Nuclear Targeting (Des Ball and Jeffrey
Richelson, eds.)
1987
‘On the Tiger's Back: The Development of the Concept of Escalation’ in The Logic of
Nuclear Terror (Kolkowicz, ed.), 1987
‘Arms control Under Gorbachev’ in National Security Issues of the USSR (Murray
Feshbach, ed.), 1987
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1988
‘Britain's Nuclear Commitment to Germany’ in British-German Defence Co-operation
(Karl Kaiser and John Roper, eds.), 1988
‘L'avenir des forces nucleaires francaises et britannique’ in Pour une Nouvelle Entente
Cordiale (Y. Boyer, P. Lellouche, and J. Roper, eds.), 1988
‘Conclusion’ in Geoffrey Till (ed.), Britain and NATO's Northern Flank, (London:
Macmillan, 1988)
‘The Strategic Context’ in Philip Sabin (ed.), The Future of UK Air Power (London:
Brassey's, 1988)
‘The Reagan Legacy’ in The American Defense Annual (Jo Kuzel, ed. Lexington Books,
1988)
‘The Political Context of Independent Groups’ in Peace and Security: A guide to
Independent Groups and Grant Sources, Susan Forrester, ed. (London: The Directory of
Social Change, 1988)
1989
‘Introduction’ to British Defence and Foreign Policy, John Young (ed.), Macmillan Press,
1989
‘The Evolution and Future of Extended Deterrence’ in The Strategic Changing
Landscape: Adelphi Papers 236
‘The Future of NATO's Nuclear Deterrent’ in NATO in the 1990s (S. Sloan, ed.),
Pergamon-Brassey's 1989
‘The Future of British and French Defence Nuclear Policies’ in Yves Boyer, Pierre
Lellouche, John Roper (eds.), Franco-British Defence Co-operation (London: Routledge,
1989)
‘Thatcherism and Defence’ in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (ed.), The Thatcher
effect: A Decade of Change, (OUP: 1989)
‘Defense Cooperation in Political Context’ in William B Taylor, Beyond Burdensharing:
Future Alliance Defense Cooperation (US Mission to NATO: April 1989)
Contribution to Gerald Segal (ed.), New Directions in Strategic Studies: A Chatham
House Debate, (RIIA Discussion Papers 17, 1989)
(With Michael Dockrill), Introduction to the War Cabinet Minutes (London: HMSO,
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1989)
‘Nuclear Deterrence and the Alliance’ in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook,
1989-1990 (Jane's 1989)
1990
‘Arms Control at Sea’ in John Pay and Geoffrey Till (eds.), East-West Relations in the
1990s: The Naval Dimension (London: Pinter, 1990)
(With David Boren), ‘The Future of Short-Range Nuclear Weapons in NATO Doctrine’
in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook, 1990-91 (Jane's 1990)
1991
‘War and Human Rights’ in Robert Blackburn and John Taylor (eds.), Human Rights for
the 1990s: Legal, Political and Ethical Issues (London: Mansell, 1991)
‘Henry Kissinger’ in John Baylis and John Garnett (eds.), Makers of Nuclear Strategy
(London: Pinter, 1991)
‘Whither nuclear strategy?’ in Ken Booth (ed.), New Thinking About Strategy and
Security (London: Harper Collins Academic, 1991)
(With David Boren) ‘Nuclear Weapons’ in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook,
1991-92 (Jane's 1991)
'The Central Region in NATO Strategy' in Brian Holden Reid and Mickael Dewar (ed.),
Military Strategy in a Changing Europe (London: Brassey's 1991)
'Strategy in the Nuclear Age' in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1991 Edition
1992
‘Arms Control in the Alliance: Assessing the Future’ in The Allies and Arms Control
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
(With David Boren) ‘'Safe Havens' for Kurds in post-war Iraq’ in Nigel Rodley, (ed.), To
Loose the Bands of Wickedness (London: Brassey's, 1992)
‘Foreword’ in Patrick Garrity and Steven Maaranen (eds.), Nuclear Weapons in the
Changing World (New York: Plenum Press, 1992)
‘Europe and the Middle East’ in Ami Ayalon (ed.), Middle East Contemporary Survey
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)
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1993
'The ‘Proliferation Problem’ and the New World Order', in Efraim Karsh, Martin Navias
and Philip Sabin (eds.) Non-Conventional-Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East,
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
‘Strategic Studies and the Problem of Power’ in War, Strategy and International Politics:
Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, History Today, June 1, 1993
‘The War and the New World Order’ in James Gow (ed.), Iraq, the Gulf Conflict and the
World Community, (London: Brassey's, 1993)
‘Recasting European Security’ in Brassey's Defense Yearbook 1993 (London: Brassey's,
1993)
‘Strategic Studies Perspectives: Mindless Eclecticism or Creative Synthesis?’ in Michael
Clarke (ed.), New Perspectives on Security, (London: Brassey's, 1993)
`Britain and Nuclear Weapons' in British Defence Choices for the Twenty-First Century,
Michael Clarke and Philip Sabin (eds.) (London: Brassey's, 1993)
Lawrence Freedman and Saki Dockrill, 'Hiroshima: A Strategy of Shock' in From Pearl
Harbour to Hiroshima: The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Saki Dockrill
(ed.), (London: Macmillan, 1993)
‘The Politics of Military Intervention within Europe’ in Nicole Gnesotto (ed.), War and
Peace: European Conflict Prevention, Chaillot Papers No. 11, Institute for Security
Studies, Western European Union, pp.37-50
'Control and Order in the New International System' in 1992-93 Yearbook of the Swedish
Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 1993
(With Beatrice Heuser) 'NATO in Transformation: Toward a Pan-European Security
Mechanism?' in European Dilemmas After Maastricht, Beverly Crawford and Peter W.
Schulze (eds.), (Berkeley: University of California, 1993). Reprinted as Lawrence
Freedman and Beatrice Heuser, 'NATO-ja Ne Transformim:Drejt Mekanizmit Te Nje
Sigurimi Gjithevropian', Revista Ushtarake Nr. 1 (6), 1994
1994
`The Theory of Limited War' in Alex Danchev and Dan Keohane, International
Perspectives on the Gulf War 1990-91, (London: Macmillan, 1994)
'Strategic Studies and the New Europe' Adelphi Paper 284, January 1994
'Defence Policy' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Major Effect.
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(London: Macmillan, 1994)
'European Security and the New World Disorder', Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1994
(London: Brassey's for CDS, 1994)
'Introduction' in Freedman (ed.), Military Intervention in European Conflicts (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers for the Political Quarterly, 1994)
`War Studies' in Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds.), The Social Science Encyclopedia
- Edition 2
1996
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Relationship Between Conventional and
Nuclear Arms Control’ in Lawrence Freedman, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Jane
M.O. Sharp (eds.), The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of
Post-Wall Arms Control (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996)
‘Conclusion’ in Paul Smith (ed.), Government and The Armed Forces, 1856 – 1990
(London: The Hambleden Press, 1996)
1997
‘How Did the Democratic Process Affect Britain’s Decision to Reoccupy the Falkland
Islands?’ in Miriam Fendius Elman (ed.), Paths to Peace (Cambridge, 1997)
1999
‘The New Great Power Politics’ in Alexei G. Arbatov, Karl Kaiser and Robert Legvold
st
(eds.), Russia and The West: The 21 Century Security Environment (New York 1999)
2000
‘The split-screen war: Kosovo and changing concepts of the use of force’ in Albrecht
Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur (eds.), Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian
Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship,
(New York: United Nations University Press, 2000)
‘Victims and Victors: reflections on the Kosovo War’ in Review of International Studies
(2000) pp.335-358
2001
‘Interventionist Strategies and the Changing Use of Force’ in Chester A Crocker, Fen
Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall (eds.), Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing
International Conflict (Washington 2001)
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‘Rethinking European Security’ in Helen Wallace (ed.), Interlocking Dimensions of
European Integration. London: St. Martin’s Press, 2001, 215-230
2002
‘Conclusion: The Future of Strategic Studies Strategy’ in the Contemporary World.
Oxford University Press 2002
‘A New Kind of War’ in Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror
and the Future of Global Order. (London: Palgrave, 2002)
‘The Coming War on Terrorism’ in Lawrence Freedman (ed.), Superterrorism: Policy
responses (London: Blackwell, 2002)
‘Security’ in M. E. Hawkesworth and Maurice Kogan (ed.), Encyclopaedia of
Government and Politics, (London: Routledge, 2002)
2004
‘China as a Global Strategic Actor’ in Barry Buzan (ed.), Does China Matter? A
Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerry Segal, (London: Routledge, 2004)
‘Can the EU Develop an Effective Military Doctrine?’ in Freedman et al, A European
Way of War (Centre for European Reform, May 2004)
‘Hiroshima- A Strategy of Shock’ in Gordon Martel (ed.), The World War Two Reader,
(London: Routledge, 2004)
2006
(With Geraint Hughes) 'Strategy' in Saki Dockrill and Geraint Hughes (eds.), Advances
in Cold War History, (London: Palgrave, 2006)
2007
‘Using Force for Peace in an Age of Terror’ in Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and
Pamela Aall (eds.), Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World,
(Washington DC: US Institute of Peace, 2007)
2008
‘Globalization and the war against Terrorism’ in Christopher Ankersen (ed.),
Understanding Global Terror, (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)
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2009
‘Airpower and the Falklands’ in A History of Air Warfare, John Andreas Olsen (ed.),
(Dulles: Potomac Books, 2009)
2010
Foreword to Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent - Estimating the Turkish
Threat: Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses, 1974-1996 by Panagiotis Dimitrakis
(Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press, 2010)
2011
‘The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Quinlan’ in Thinking About Strategy – A Tribute to
Sir Michael Quinlan (FRS, April 2011)
French translation of ‘Nuclear Disarmament’ in Les armes nucléaires ont-elles un
avenir? (Do Nuclear Weapons Have a Future?) (Odile Jacob, April 2011)
‘Die Laos-Frage und der Wiener Gipfel’ in Der Wiener Gipfel 1961. Kennedy –
Chruschtschow (Studienverlag, May 2011)
‘The Counterrevolution in Strategic Affairs’, Daedalus: Journal of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011 (pp. 16-32)
2012
‘Defining War’ in The Oxford Handbook of War, forthcoming (Oxford University Press,
January 2012)
‘The International Politics of the Gulf War’ in Into the Desert, forthcoming (Oxford
University Press, 2012)
‘Does Strategic Studies Have a Future?’ in John Baylis, James J Wirtz and Colin S Gray,
eds., Strategy in the Contemporary World (4th edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1975
‘Nuclear Proliferation in an Age of Détente’ Current Affairs Bulletin, May 1, 1975
‘Israel's Nuclear Policy’ Survival, Vol. XVII, No. 3, May/June 1975.
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‘A Nuclear Middle East’ Present Tense II:2 (Winter 1975)
1976
‘Het kruisvluchtwapen en de Europese veiligheid’ International Spectator (February
1976)
‘Logic Politics and Foreign Policy Processes: A Critique of the Bureaucratic Politics
Model’ International Affairs, July 1976
‘The Persistence of Technological Enthusiasm: The Technological Input into US
Strategic Arms Policy’ Millennium, Autumn 1976
1977
‘The Soviet Union and `Anti-Space Defence'’ Survival, January/February 1977
‘Britain and a European Foreign Policy’ World Today, May 1977
‘The Balance of Terror’ New Society, 2 June 1977
‘Morality and Foreign Policy’ New Outlook (July/August 1977) "Towards SALT II"
World Today (November 1977)
1978
‘Britain's Foreign Policy to 1985: Britain's Contribution to NATO’ International Affairs,
January 1978
‘European Security: The Prospect of Change’ RUSI Journal, March 1978
‘The Strategy of Hiroshima’ The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1978
‘British Foreign Policy to 1985: Britain and the Arms Trade’ International Affairs, July
1978
‘British Oil: The Myth of Independence’ The World Today, August 1978 (Reprinted in
Internationale Spectator)
‘Balancing Acts’ Millennium, Vol. 7, No. 2, Autumn 1978
‘Driving Along the Two-Way Street’ Defence Attache, September/October 1978
‘SALT and a Stable Nuclear Balance’ Interstate, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1978
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1979
‘Has Strategy Reached a Dead End?’ Futures, April 1979
‘The Arms Trade’ International Affairs, July 1979
‘SALT II and the Strategic Balance’ The World Today, August 1979
‘Time For a Reappraisal’ Survival, September/October 1979
‘SALT and NATO’ Ditchley Journal, October 1979
‘Crisis Management’ NATO's Fifteen Nation's, October/November 1979
1980
‘Requiem For Detente?’ The World Today, February 1980
‘The Nuclear Deterrent’ Navy International, April 1980
‘Conservative Foreign Policy: The First Year’ Internationale Spectator, May 1980
‘Defence with a Split Mind’ New Statesman, 17 October 1980
‘Trident: Awaiting the Debate’ Defence Attache, No. 5, 1980
‘Defence Policies in the 1980s’ The Reformer, Autumn 1980
‘Arms Control and the British Nuclear Deterrent’ Arms Control, Vol. 1, No. 3, December
1980
1981
‘The Dilemma of Theatre Nuclear Arms Control’ Survival, Vol. XXIII, No. 1,
January/February 1981
‘Development and Disarmament: Piety or Policy’ New Internationalist, March 1981
‘The Carter Years’ Defence, Communications and Security Review, February 1981
‘The Neutron Bomb Returns’ The World Today, Vol. 37, No. 3, March 1981
‘The French and their Nuclear Policy’ New Society, 18 June 1981
‘Heeft wapenbeheersing toekomst’ Internationale Spectator (June 1981)
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‘Britain: The First Ex-Nuclear Power’ International Security, Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1981
‘A Critique of the END Campaign’ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December
1981
‘NATO Myths’ Foreign Policy, Winter 1981-1982
‘Nuclear Proliferation’ NATO's Fifteen Nations, December 1981-January 1982
1982
‘Limited War, Unlimited Protest’ Orbis, Spring 1982
‘The Development of the `Think Tank'’ in Report of the Tripartite Seminar held at RUSI
on ‘Outsiders' Influence on Defence Policy -- Part I’ Nov. 11, 1981. RUSI Journal, 1982
‘The Atlantic Crisis’ International Affairs, Summer 1982.
‘Defence After the Falklands’ Alliance, July 1982
‘British Defence Policy After the Falklands’ The World Today, Vol. 38, No. 9,
September 1982
‘The War of the Falkland Islands, 1982’ Foreign Affairs, Fall 1982
‘Europe and the ABM Revival’ Arms Control, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 1982
‘Arms Control: No Hiding Place’ SAIS Review, Winter 1982-1983
1983
‘Labour and the Bomb’ The Economist, 24 March 1983
‘Bridgehead Revisited: The Literature of the Falklands War’ International Affairs,
Summer 1983
‘Negotiations on Nuclear Forces’ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 1983
‘The Small Nuclear Forces’ NATO'S Sixteen Nations, December 1983- January 1984
1984
‘Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Is There an Arms Race?’ Millennium, Vol. 13, No. 1,
Spring 1984
‘Weapons, Doctrine and Arms Control’ Washington Quarterly, Spring 1984
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‘Strategic Superiority’ Coexistence, 21 July 1984
‘Indignation, Influence and Strategic Studies’ International Affairs, 1984
‘Economy Rules at MoD’ Defence Attache, No. 4, 1984
‘NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative’ NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative
Vol. 29, No. 6 (November 1984)
1985
‘British Nuclear Targeting’ Defence Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1985
‘A New Strategic Revolution?’ Space Policy, May 1985
‘Britain's Nuclear Deterrent: Value For Money?’ Catalyst, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1985
1986
‘International Verification Arrangements’ Space Policy, February 1986
‘Logistics and Mobility in Modern Warfare’ Armed Forces (February 1986)
‘Peace That's Grounded in a War of Words’ Times Higher Education Supplement, 30
May 1986
‘Star Wars and the Summit’ Government and Opposition (Spring 1986)
‘Intelligence Operations in the Falklands’ Intelligence and National Security I:3
(September 1986)
‘Consent, coercion and the application of military power’ Political Geography Quarterly
Supplement to Vol. 5, No. 4 (October 1986)
‘Defence Policy after the next election’ Political Quarterly (October-December 1986)
1988
‘Arms Control: The Open and Hidden Agenda’ European Affairs (Winter 1988)
‘Managing Alliances’ Foreign Policy (Summer1988)
1989
‘General Deterrence and the Balance of Power’ Review of International Studies
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(15:1989)
‘NATO after the summit’ Bulletin of the Council for Arms Control, 45 (August 1989)
‘The Politics of Conventional Arms Control’ Survival (Sept/Oct 1989)
1990
‘Potential European Instability: An Historical Perspective’ RUSI Journal (Summer 1990)
‘Arms Control: Thirty Years On’ Daedalus 120:1 (Winter 1991)
1991
‘Security Studies after the Cold War’ UNDIR Newsletter No. 1 (March 1991)
‘The Gulf war and the new world order’ Survival 33:3 (May/June 1991)
‘The Defence Planner in the New World’ Who's Who Magazine (Autumn 1991)
‘Waking Up to Reality in Post-Revolution Europe’ Peace and Security 6:3 (Autumn
1991) (with Efraim Karsh)
‘How Kuwait Was Won: Strategy in the Gulf War’ International Security 16:2 (Fall
1991)
‘Pax Americana' -- What Does it Mean?’ in Analysis No. 8 (November 1991)
‘The Need for NATO: A Constitutional Alliance’ NATO's Sixteen Nations 36:7
(December 1991)
‘Order and Disorder in the New World’ Foreign Affairs America and the World, 71:1
(1991/92)
1993
‘Weak States and the West: Warfare has a future’ The Economist, 11 September 1993,
pp.42-44. (Reprinted as `Les petites guerres ont de l'avenir', Courrier International
(supplement), Sept. 1993, p.39.) and in Society Vol. 32, No. 1, November/December
1994
‘Nuclear Strategy and Asia’ The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 1:1 (Summer 1993)
pp.41-60
‘The Future of Air Power’ The Hawk Journal 1993, pp.35-44
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‘Humanitarian War, the New United Nations and Peacekeeping’ International Affairs
69:3 (July 1993), pp.425-427
`Lessons of the Gulf War' Asian Affair Vol. 24, October 93, pp.273-279
'The Professional and Political Context of Security Studies' Arms Control Vol. 14, No. 2,
August 1993, pp.198-205
1994
'Britain, NATO, and Europe' JFQ No. 5, Summer 1994
'Great Powers, Vital Interests and Nuclear Weapons' Survival Vol. 36, No. 4, Winter
1994
'Speaking on Michael Howard's Studies in War and Peace' The Times Higher Education
Supplement 9 September 1994
'The Media and Foreign Policy' Europa Archiv December 1994. 'Why the West Failed',
Foreign Policy 97, Winter 1994-95
1995
'Power and Insecurity in Europe' European Review Vol. 3, No. 1, 1995
'Alliance and the British Way in Warfare' Review of International Studies, April 1995
1996
`Vietnam and the Disillusioned Strategist’ International Affairs, Vol. 72 No. 1 (1996)
`Even-Handedness, Guidelines and Defence Sales to Iraq’ Public Law (Autumn 1996),
‘The Media and Foreign Policy’ Despatches: The Journal of the Territorial Army Pool of
Information Officers, No.6 (Spring 1996), pp.134-143
‘To Comment or Not’ King’s College In Touch Magazine (Autumn 1996), pp.2-3
‘Balancing Acts: Changing Needs and Concepts in Arms Control’ Disarmament
Diplomacy No.6 (June 1996), pp.5-9
‘The Grapes of Wrath and the Peace Process’ The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol.
III, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 1996), pp.103-111
‘The Use of Force’ The Journal of National Defense, Vol. 24, No. 3 (December 1996)
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1997
`The CIA and the Soviet Threat: The Politicization of Estimates, 1966-1977’ Intelligence
and National Security, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1997)
1998
`International Security: Changing Targets’ Foreign Policy, No. 110 (Spring 1998)
`Military Power and Political Influence’ International Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 4 (October
1998)
`The Changing Forms of Military Conflict’ Survival, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter 1998-99)
1999
‘The future of international politics in the wake of Kosovo’ Jane’s Defence Weekly, 21
July 1999
2000
‘Does Deterrence Have a Future?’ Arms Control Today, October
‘Victims and Victors: reflections on the Kosovo War’ in Review of International Studies,
Vol. 26
2001
‘Whatever Happened to the Balance of Power?’ The World Today, January
‘Grand Strategy in the Twenty-First Century’ Defence Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring
2001), pp.11-20
‘The Third World War?’ Survival, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter)
2002
‘Calling the shots: should politicians or generals run our wars?’ Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81
No.5, September/October
(With Christopher Dandeker), ‘The British Armed Services’ Political Quarterly, Vol. 73.
No. 4
2003
‘Prevention, not Preemption’ Washington Quarterly (Spring)
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‘Think Again: War’ Foreign Policy, July/August 2003
‘Kennedy, Bush and Crisis Management’ Cold War History, Vol. 2. No. 3
2004
‘The new security equation’ Conflict, Security & Development, Vol. 4, No. 3, December
2004, pp.245-259
‘Intelligence Test. War in Iraq: Selling the Threat’ Survival: The IISS Quarterly. Vol. 46,
No. 2, Summer 2004
2005
‘Strategic Terror and Amateur Psychology’ Political Quarterly, Spring 2005
‘The Politics of Warning: Terrorism and Risk Communication’ Intelligence and National
Security, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2005, pp.379 – 418
‘A Theory of Battle or a Theory of War?’ The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 28, No.
3, 425-435, June 2005
‘The Transatlantic Agenda: Vision and Counter-Vision’ Survival, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter
2005-06), pp.19-38
‘War Evolves into the Fourth Generation: A Comment on Thomas X. Hammes’
Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 26, No. 2 (August 2005), pp.1-10
‘The age of Liberal Wars’ Review of International Studies, Vol. 31
2006
‘Writing of Wrongs’ Foreign Affairs (January/February)
‘Britain at War: From the Falklands to Iraq’ Royal United Services Institute Journal, Vol.
151, No. 1 (February)
(With Simon Wessely) ‘Reflections on Gulf War Illness’ Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society Bulletin (March)
‘The Special Relationship, Then and Now’ Foreign Affairs (May/June) Falklands
‘Confessions of a Premature Constructivist’ Review of International Studies, Vol. 32
‘Iraq, Liberal Wars and Illiberal Containment’ Survival, Vol. 48, No. 4 (December)
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2007
‘Notes for Defence Seminar’ 8 January 2007 (primeminister.gov.uk)
2009
“A Subversive on a hill”, The National Interest, May/June 2009
“Framing Strategic Deterrence: Old Certainties, New Ambiguities”, RUSI Journal, Aug
2009, Vol. 154, No. 4
“A New Theory for Nuclear Disarmament”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 65,
No. 4 (July/August 2009)
2010
“British Perspectives on Nuclear weapons and Nuclear Disarmament”, in Barry M
Blechman and Alexander K Boltfrass, eds., National Perspectives on Nuclear
Disarmament: unblocking the road to zero, (Washington DC: Stimson Center, 2010)
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Academy of Arts and Sciences, forthcoming Summer 2011 (volume 140, number 3)
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
1974
‘Disquiet on the Eastern Front’ The Guardian, 22 May 1974
‘The Nuclear Cloud Over the Middle East’ The Guardian, 27 November 1974
‘The Nuclear Cloud Over the Middle East’ The Guardian, 4 December 1974
1978
‘Europe Feels the Pinch of SALT’ The Times, 2 August 1978
1980
‘Has Putting SALT on the Shelf Done Anyone Any Good?’ The Times, 15 January 1980
‘Does Civil Defence Claim Too Much?’ The Times, 20 March 1980
‘Trident: Will it Still Work in 2020 AD?’ The Sunday Times, 20 July 1980
‘Packing Our Own Punch’ The Guardian, 31 July 1980
‘Labour's Secret Arms Race’ The Guardian, 14 September 1980
1981
‘Zero is a Plus’ The Sunday Times, 22 November 1981
1983
‘The Great Missile Gap -- Between Andropov and His Generals’ The Times, 19 March
1983
‘Britain's Deterrent Dilemma’ The Times, 9 May 1983
‘Short-range Steps Towards Peace’ The Times, 21 October 1983
1984
‘NATO: Tell -- and Trust -- the People’ The Times, 25 January 1984
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1985
‘Could This Treaty Attack Backfire’ The Times, 24 July 1985
‘Summit: why pessimism is the best policy’ The Times 26 September 1985
‘US Ought to Stand Firm at Geneva’ Los Angeles Times, 6 November 1985
1986
‘Why Reagan's Decision to Scrap SALT 2 is a Mistake’ Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1986
‘Arms Control Surprises Ahead?’ Los Angeles Times, 26 June 1986
‘Can we still go along with Star Wars?’ The Times, 16 October 1986
1987
‘How Moscow Might Kill SDI’ The Times, 28 January 1987
‘Locked in War Without End’ The Independent, 3 February 1987
‘Twisting the Terms of A Treaty’ The Independent, 18 February 1987
‘A Soviet Gesture of Goodwill’ The Independent, 2 March 1987
‘A Short Range Problem’ The Independent, 10 March 1987
‘The German Front Line’ The Independent, 18 May 1987
‘Europe Without the Bomb’ The Independent, 27 April 1987
‘Could NATO live with a Labour Government’ The Independent, 27 May 1987
‘Why a Military Review is Not a Defeat’ The Independent, 25 June 1987
‘Why This Disarmament Dawn is Unlikely to Prove False’ The Independent, 24 July
1987
‘Even a Revolutionary Regime Must One Day Mend Its Fences’ The Independent, 22
July 1987
‘Conventional Wisdom’ The Independent, 10 August 1987
‘Why the Senate Now Holds the Key to an Arms Reduction Treaty’ The Independent, 2
September 1987
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‘A Step Towards Military Glasnost’ The Independent, 11 September 1987
‘Disuadir en Europa‘ El Globo, 25 September-1 October 1987
‘An Imperfect Deal Will Do’ The Independent, 13 October 1987
‘Watershed in the cold War’ The Independent, 22 October 1987
‘Calls to Cut American Forces in Europe May Follow the Crash’ The Independent, 6
November 1987
‘Conflict Looms Over Canada's Submarines’ The Independent, 20 November 1987
‘The Triumph of a Patient Negotiator (Profile: Paul Nitze, Cold War Dealmaker)’ The
Independent, 5 December 1987
‘Arms: The Endgame STARTs Here’ The Independent, 8 December 1987
1988
‘The Next Nuclear Debate’ The Independent, 3 January 1988
‘Britain's Other Nuclear Forces’ The Independent, 21 January 1988
‘Penalties of the Myopic Art of Threatmanship’ The Independent, 24 February 1988
‘Star Wars: Reagan's Flawed Vision?’ The Independent, 23 March 1988
‘The Stinger in the Afghan Tale’ The Independent, 14 April 1988
‘East Wind Missiles Chill US-Saudi Relations’ The Independent, 2 May 1988
‘Danish Qualms over a coy policy’ The Independent, 13 May 1988
‘Building on Past False Starts’ The Independent, 26 May 1988
‘The Numbers Game That Makes or Mars a Treaty’ The Independent, 31 May 1988
‘Principles Were At Stake: The Falklands War Was Worth It’ The Independent, 2 June
1988
‘Muscle-bound Military Might Can be Vulnerable’ The Independent, 11 July 1988
‘Weighing Up Good Intentions’ The Independent, 13 July 1988
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‘The Lessons Iran and the World Have Learnt From the Gulf War’ The Independent, 22
July 1988
‘The Politics of Coercion’ The Independent, 18 July 1988
‘A Nation at Odds with the World's Expectations of Greatness’ The Independent, 7
September 1988
‘Why the Provision of Child Care is Now a Security Issue’ The Independent, 6 October
1988
‘Israel's Brutal Choice’ The Independent, 27 October 1988
‘Weapons of the Campaign’ The Independent, 4 November 1988
‘Start of the Peace Offensive’ The Independent, 18 November 1988
‘Moderator in the Minefield’ The Independent, 2 December 1988
‘Gorbachev Forces NATO's Hand’ The Independent, 16 December 1988
‘From Negative Peace to Positive Diplomacy’ The Independent, 30 December 1988
1989
‘A Poisonous Prestige’ The Independent, 13 January 1989
‘'Mr Nyet' and the Cold War’ The Independent, 27 January 1989
‘Moscow Enters the Numbers Game’ The Independent, 31 January 1989
‘A Dangerous Place to Ignore’ The Independent, 10 February 1989
‘Living on Europe's Front Line’ The Independent, 24 February 1989
‘Labour's Nuclear Catch-22’ The Independent, 10 March 1989
‘Will the Real Bush Please Stand Up’ The Independent, 24 March 1989
‘Battling with Old Realities’ The Independent, 7 April 1989
‘Syria's key role in the Beirut Blitz’ The Independent, 21 April 1989
‘W. German stance contradicts deal on alliance summit’ The Independent, 25 April 1989
‘A New Order Emerging in the Thaw’ The Independent, 5 May 1989
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‘Germany on the point of a Lance’ The Independent, 19 May 1989
‘The Battle for Hearts and Minds’ The Independent, 2 June 1989
‘Light on China's Darkness’ The Independent, 16 June 1989
‘A Novel Experience for Shamir’ The Independent, 30 June 1989
‘Nearer to France than we imagine’ The Independent, 14 July 1989
‘The professor who popularised the study of conflict’ The Independent, 21 July 1989
‘Learning to dance on the other foot’ The Independent, 28 July 1989
‘The Dangers of Absolute Standards’ The Independent, 11 August 1989
‘Opening the cage of Communism’ The Independent, 25 August 1989
‘Rhetorical weapons in the American War on Drug Abuse’ The Independent, 8
September 1989
‘Arms Deals and Burned Fingers’ The Independent, 22 September 1989
‘The Virtues of Old History’ The Independent, 6 October 1989
‘Stand Down, Mr Shamir’ The Independent, 20 October 1989
‘Just Two Men in a Boat’ The Independent, 3 November 1989
‘West faces new questions of security’ The Independent, 11 November 1989
‘Widening the Circle of Europe’ The Independent, 17 November 1989
‘Riding Towards the Sunset’ The Independent, 1 December 1989
‘How can the Pact survive?’ The Independent, 15 December 1989
‘The Revolution, Part Two’ The Independent, 29 December 1989
1990
‘The bear goes to pieces’ The Independent, 12 January 1990
‘Peace Dividend Postponed’ The Independent, 26 January 1990
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‘Unity's race against time’ The Independent, 8 February 1990
‘A whole new board game’ The Independent, 22 February 1990
‘Parade's End’ New York Review of Books, 29 March 1990
‘Why Japan still needs Uncle Sam’ The Independent, 19 April 1990
‘Anchoring a united Germany’ The Independent, 3 May 1990
‘Tangled up in arms control’ The Independent, 17 May 1990
‘Europe under security guard’ The Independent, 14 June 1990
‘The Russian bear backs off’ The Independent, 28 June 1990
‘Communism under the hammer’ The Independent, 12 July 1990
‘End of the Anglo-Saxon era’ The Independent, 26 July 1990
‘If we fail Kuwait, we fail ourselves’ The Independent, 7 August 1990
‘The UN's chance to corner Saddam’ The Independent, 30 August 1990
‘Haunted by the ghost of defeat’ The Independent, 20 September 1990 (with Dominique
Moisi)
‘It's Time for French-British Security Partnership’ International Herald Tribune, 24
September 1990
‘Germany, new frontline state’ The Independent, 3 October 1990
‘Grandmasters in a game of flexibility’ The Independent, 18 October 1990
‘Any you paint it, it's not Cuba’ The Independent, 1 November 1990
‘Hawkish pose to avoid war’ The Independent, 5 November 1990
‘A union assailed by shadows’ The Independent, 16 November 1990
‘Amnesty or Armageddon?’ The Independent, 14 December 1990
‘Global distortions in a crystal ball’ The Independent, 27 December 1990
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1991
‘International vabenhandel er ramt af krisen’ Berlingske Tidende, 1 January 1991
‘A logic that points to war’ The Independent, 11 January 1991
‘Baghdad stunned by science’ The Independent, 18 January 1991
‘In search of the right conclusion’ The Independent, 19 January 1991
‘The Arabs and Israel: why fear transcends dogma’ The Independent, 21 January 1991
‘Allied commanders battle with the uncertainty factor’ The Independent, 22 January 1991
‘Caught without an arrow in her quiver’ The Independent, 23 January 1991
‘Why the allies should not rush into a land battle’ The Independent, 24 January 1991
‘Why there should be no question of going nuclear’ The Independent, 26 January 1991
‘There will be pain, but no despair’ The Independent, 30 January 1991
‘Textbooks not much help in trying to make sense of Saddam's strategy’ The
Independent, 1 February 1991
‘Military give Saddam pause for thought’ The Independent, 4 February 1991
‘The buck still stops here’ The Independent, 15 February 1991
‘Allies advance in the psychological battle’ The Independent, 16 February 1991
‘Beginning of the end in sight’ The Independent, 22 February 1991
‘Saddam confronts the Father of Defeat’ The Independent, 27 February 1991
‘A superpower victorious but not unrestrained’ The Independent, 1 March 1991
‘Military might and the next fight’ The Independent, 29 March 1991
‘A clear-cut case for action’ The Independent, 12 April 1991
‘Gone, but not forgotten’ The Independent, 30 April 1991
‘Unfinished business between suspicious partners’ The Independent, 22 May 1991
‘Will this arms race run and run?’ The Independent, 4 June 1991
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‘When hindering a divorce hastens domestic violence’ The Independent, 26 June 1991
‘Yugoslavia provides a lesson in the art of the possible’ The Independent, 3 July 1991
‘Whom are we defending, and against what?’ The Independent, 10 July 1991
‘A catastrophe we must avoid’ The Independent, 6 August 1991
‘Virtue rises from a vicious past’ The Independent, 19 August 1991
‘An old-fashioned coup for our times’ The Independent, 20 August 1991
‘They tried, they failed -- and democracy seems closer’ The Independent, 22 August
1991
‘A strategy for Moscow, courtesy of NATO’ The Independent, 27 August 1991
‘A bloody lesson in human rights’ The Independent, 12 September 1991
‘No farewell to the nuclear age’ The Independent, 30 September 1991
‘Nuclear idea whose time has gone’ The Independent, 13 November 1991
‘An empty gesture for Israel’ The Independent, 3 December 1991
1992
‘The EC's deadly double role’ The Independent, 14 January 1992
‘Set to sail without a helmsman’ The Independent, 5 March 1992
‘Now force is the only way’ The Independent, 27 May 1992
‘Challenges that go beyond Maastricht’ The Independent, 9 June 1992
‘Still Enough warheads to go round’ The Independent, 18 June 1992
‘Logic that may sweep Israel to peace’ The Independent, 23 June 1992
‘If this is the wrong warplane, what is the right one?’ The Independent, 7 July 1992
‘Where Moscow's old elite struggles for survival’ The Independent, 21 July 1992
‘Only the infantry can relieve the Balkans' pain’ The Independent, 4 August 1992
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‘A pessimistic West must hold on to what it has’ The Independent, 11 August 1992
‘False steps that could lead to a quagmire in Bosnia’ The Independent, 25 August 1992
‘German weakness that may undermine Maastricht’ The Independent, 8 September 1992
‘After the arms race, the exchange-rate war’ The Independent, 24 September 1992
‘A north-south crisis for Europe’ The Independent, 8 October 1992
‘Navel-gazing while Europe burns’ The Independent, 21 October 1992
‘Arms to Iraq? Business as usual’ The Independent, 23 November 1992
‘Turning our backs is no option’ The Independent, 7 December 1992
‘A treaty from the past’ The Independent, 31 December 1992
1993
‘Survival is his greatest skill’ The Independent, 14 January 1993
‘When the sky isn't the limit’ The Independent, 19 January 1993
‘Clinton Must Heed Europe’ Newsday, 12 May 1993
‘Allies stick together to contain Bosnia conflict’ The Times, 14 May 1993
‘Monetary Storm reveals hidden weakness of the German giant’ The Times, 4 August
1993
‘Strike, for Sarajevo and settlement’ The Times, 5 August 1993
‘Peace-making can be bad for your morals’ The Times, 11 August 1993
‘Military messages decoded’ The Times, 19 August 1993
‘The world must help if Muslims are to survive’ The Times, 31 August 1993
‘Living under the shadow of the bomb’ The Times, 23 September 1993
‘Georgia's new thinker sees Moscow returning to old habits’ The Times, 22 September
1993
‘Western chiefs had no choice but to stand by their man’ The Times, 5 October 1993
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‘If Russia was a company, the receivers would be called in’ The Times, 22 October 1993
‘Uncertainties of post-communist world increase the need for allied co-operation’ The
Times, 19 October 1993
‘NATO shies away from embracing its former foes’ The Times, 20 October 1993
"North Korean guile leaves Clinton out on a limb again' The Times, 9 November 1993
‘New missile system tracks the changes in its ancient foe’ The Times, 16 November 1993
‘Reconciling the incompatible’ The Times, 20 November 1993
‘Spring offers last chance for Balkans peace’ The Times, 22 November 1993
‘Ukraine is the test for Russia’ The Times, 14 December 1993
1994
‘NATO treads risky minefield with loss of old certainties’ The Times, 13 January 1994
‘Syrian initiative increases regional risks for Assad’ The Times, 17 January 1994
‘Europe upset by Russia's recurring empire dream’ The Times, 29 January 1994
‘How the humiliation factor forced NATO's hand’ The Times, 12 February 1994
‘America fated to be outmanoeuvred in the Balkans’ The Times, 26 February 1994
‘Asia won't be bullied over trade’ The Times, 5 April 1994
‘After the strikes, it's all up in the air’ The Times, 12 April 1994
‘Enclave assault exposes flaws in haven strategy’ The Times, 18 April 1994
‘Doomed regime sets store of nuclear security’ The Times, 22 April 1994
‘US dithering angers European leaders’ The Times, 13 May 1994
‘Men who called the shots; Eisenhower D-Day Anniversary’ The Times, 3 June 1994
‘Burden of success fell on affable Ike’ The Weekend Australian, 4-5 June 1994
‘N. Korea outwits the world’ The Times, 16 June 1994
‘Putting the forces out of tender’ The Times, 21 June 1994
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‘Britain's Cruise Missile?’ The Times, 16 July 1994
‘Get tough on the sponsors of terrorism’ The Times, 28 July 1994
‘Will Bosnian Serbs change their minds?’ The Times, 15 August 1994
‘The new empire builders’ The Times, 31 August 1994
‘Lifting embargo risks hurting Bosnians most’ The Times, 15 September 1994
‘West has little room for manoeuvre as dictator calls the tune’ The Times, 11 October
1994
‘Europe must prepare to lead the new NATO. The Bosnian crisis shows that Europeans
can no longer rely on American leadership. They will have to develop their own security
strategy, argues Lawrence Freedman’ The Guardian (pre-1997 full text) 4 December
1994
1995
‘Comment: Russians have lost the 'knack' of brute force The Russian attack on Grozny is
a symptom of a failure to readjust to new political realities, says Lawrence Freedman. But
Europe can no longer afford the luxury of any such failure’ The Guardian (pre-1997 full
text), 8 January 1995
‘After Rose, a prickly dilemma’ The Times, 24 January 1995
‘Shadowy attackers shun the spotlight of publicity’ The Times, 21 April 1995
‘Perils of raising the stakes’ The Times, 30 May 1995
‘A war the US can't ignore’ The Times, 1 June 1995
‘Serbs held prisoner by their hostage strategy’ The Times, 3 June 1995
‘Rapid Reaction Force must win Sarajevo access to end Bosnia drift’ The Times, 10 July
1995
‘Will the UN lose its nerve?’ The Times, 13 July 1995
‘The first casualty of war’ The Times, 6 August 1995
‘Time to inject lessons of Balkan realism into UN operational manuals’ The Times, 31
August 1995
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‘Peres will continue search for accord: assassination of Yitzhak Rabin’ The Times, 6
November 1995
1996
‘Running up a loss in trade with a tyrant: Scott Report Special’ The Times, 18 February
1996
‘Israel Depends on Arafat’ The Times, 5 March 1996
‘China menaces Taiwan’ The Times, 7 March 1996
‘Peres still needs goodwill of neighbouring powers’ The Times, 16 April 1996
‘Israel forced on to political defensive by massacre of Lebanon refugees’ The Times, 20
April 1996
‘Operation Grapes of Wrath could yet give peace a chance’ The Sunday Times, 21 April
1996
‘Why Bibi may need Labour’ The Times, 14 June 1996
‘Taleban offers capital glimpse of stability’ The Times, 30 September 1996
1998
‘Send for the Marines to humble Iraq’ The Times, 4 February 1998
‘Men who are ruined without rule’ The Times, 19 February 1998
‘Incentives for peace offer glimmer of hope in Baghdadmission’ The Times, 21 February
1998
‘An uneasy peace for our time’ The Times, 24 February 1998
‘New balance of terror also has an upside’ The Times, 29 May 1998
‘Bosnia teaches NATO there can be no half-measures’ The Times, 9 June 1998
‘NATO fear of taking sides takes heat off Milosevic’ The Times, 2 July 1998
‘Britannia returns to the waves’ The Times, 7 July 1998
‘New World, New Roles: The British and French revamp their forces for the post-cold
war world’ Time Magazine, 27 July 1998 Vol. 152, No. 4
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‘Banning the bomb’ Los Angeles Times, August 1998
‘Wait for the punchline in Kosovo’ The Times, 12 October 1998
‘Don't let him off the hook now’ The Times, 16 November 1998
‘Opting for a quiet life would raise the risks in Europe’ The Times, 21 December 1998
1999
‘Action on the ground may have to follow the bombers’ The Times, 25 March 1999
‘Alliance's long-term task as a protector’ The Times, 9 April 1999
‘Comment: The road to a diplomatic settlement with Serbia’ The Independent, 14 April
1999
‘Is there a magic formula for peace in the Balkans? The issue remains constant - either
the refugees go home in security, or they don't’ The Independent, 30 April 1999
‘Podium - NATO's search for a `Goldilocks' war Lawrence Freedman; From the E H Carr
Lecture, given at Aberystwyth by the professor of war studies at King's College, London’
The Independent, 26 May 1999
‘We must send in the troops now’ The Times, 28 May 1999
‘Democracies are prone to do bad things for good reasons However upsetting the conduct
of this war, at a basic level it remains the right thing to do’ The Independent, 1 June 1999
‘War in The Balkans: So can we now solve the Balkan question?’ The Independent, 4
June 1999
‘Air power has yet to win a war’ The Times, 5 June 1999
‘Russia must learn that it is no longer a great power Once again in Kosovo, the Russians
have taken a public line that they cannot back up’ The Independent, 18 June 1999
‘Why America says it now needs 'son of Star Wars' The West no longer requires a
nuclear capability, but it fears that others still do’ The Independent, 22 August 1999
‘At last, Europe is beginning to learn the lessons of this war- torn decade `Whether we
like it or not, there are trends in the United States encouraging an isolationist stance'’
The Independent, 26 November 1999
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2000
‘It didn’t matter in the Cold War, but today the army’s equipment must work’ The
Independent, 5 January 2000
‘Dangerous line of defence’ The Independent on Sunday, 23 January 2000
‘Beyond normal explosives’ Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2000
‘Ability to exercise sustained military force is essential’ The Times, 25 April 2000
‘A chilling peacetime’ TLS–History, April 2000
‘Day-to-day pressure on a UK diplomat’ Church Times, April 2000
‘Don’t just do something, stand there and reflect’ Times Literary Supplement, 21 July
2000
‘Staying in the game’ Times Literary Supplement, 11 August 2000
‘Real danger in a rusting superpower’ Daily Mail, 15 August 2000
‘UN missions do not `creep', they change `Inadvertently, Britain has acquired a
leadership role in the defence of Freetown'’ The Independent, 13 May 2000
‘Any peace deal in the Middle East must include extremists on both sides’ The
Independent, 16 October 2000
‘Does Deterrence Have a Future?’ Arms Control Today, October 2000
2001
‘Whatever Happened to the Balance of Power?’ The World Today, January 2001
‘New raids will still leave Bush's business unfinished’ The Times, 17 February 2001
‘Strands that unavoidably come together: There are deep links between economic policy
and international relations. They are too often ignored, finds Lawrence Freedman’
Financial Times, 30 April 2001
‘Missiles and open minds: Defensive rather than offensive systems used to be thought of
as the best way to prevent arms races, says Lawrence Freedman’ Financial Times, 9 May
2001
‘The cold-war years: more thrilling than JFK's love life’ The Sunday Times, 27 May
2001
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‘The possibility of peace: Few political settlements - whether in Northern Ireland or the
Middle East - preclude violence, writes Lawrence Freedman’ Financial Times, 29 June
2001
‘Secrets and lies’ The Sunday Times, 1 July 2001
‘The transformation of NATO: The prospect for an expanding alliance is not that it will
tear itself apart, but that it will become a quite different institution, writes Lawrence
Freedman’ Financial Times, 6 August 2001
‘Israel's false impressions: The idea that the Palestinian leadership planned to revert to
violence is historically unsustainable, says Lawrence Freedman’ Financial Times, 10
September 2001
‘A post-modern conflict: The nature of yesterday's attack leaves the Bush Administration
unsure about how to react, says Lawrence Freedman’ Financial Times, 12 September
2001
‘The enemy may be shadowy, but this war will follow the usual battle lines This is how
Don't underestimate the strength of military power against terrorists’ The Independent, 17
September 2001
‘Terrorists with 'loose nukes' the worst nightmare’ Irish Independent, 19 September 2001
‘War On Terror: This time round the outcome is hard to predict’ The Independent , 6
October 2001
‘Why our ground troops have to invade Afghanistan’ The Independent, 10 October 2001
‘This is the Third World War - and the stakes are high; `Like the First and Second World
Wars, the core confrontation is a vortex pulling other conflicts in'’ The Independent, 20
October 2001
‘The war of words: Tangible evidence of military progress is needed to win the battle for
hearts and minds, says Lawrence Freedman’ Financial Times, 1 November 2001
‘The Americans have left it too late to send in ground troops before winter’ The
Independent, 6 November 2001
‘The US must conquer its fears and let the Northern Alliance attack Kabul’ The
Independent, 12 November 2001
‘America may find itself stuck with a long-term role in Afghanistan’ The Independent, 28
November 2001
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‘This war reveals the limitations of American military strategy; `Air power works best in
conjunction with ground forces - and that means finding reliable allies'’ The Independent,
18 December 2001
2002
‘We won the war, but where is our strategy for a new world order?; `Will the cry of
terrorism be used as communism was by repressive regimes to suppress dissent?'’ The
Independent, 15 February 2002
‘A future for European defence’ FT.com, 21 April 2002
‘Whitehall's take on Armageddon’ The Evening Standard, 25 February 2002
‘What Bush must do now Saddam is cornered’ Financial Times, 11 November 2002
2003
‘A war against Iraq can still be averted’ Financial Times, 8 January 2003
‘America's life as the world's only superpower’ The Sunday Times, 2 February 2003
‘A way for France to come back into the fold’ Financial Times, 12 February 2003
‘Arms and the man’ The Sunday Times, 9 March 2003
‘The war may take longer than we believe’ Financial Times, 20 March 2003
‘Editorial & Opinion: The Iraq Conflict: Lessons from the bombing of Baghdad, 1991;
Analysis: There is no evidence that the Allied bombardment in the first Gulf War made
any difference to Saddam's hold on power. But it did have long-term consequences’ The
Independent, 21 March 2003
‘The Iraq conflict: Analysis: Tough strategic issues must be confronted; So far, this war
is not unique, apart from the speed of advance. But soon the coalition will have to take
risks to fight awkward enemy positions in the cities’ The Independent, 24 March 2003
‘Patience as well as power is the key to coalition victory’ The Times, 28 March 2003
‘Editorial & Opinion: The Iraq Conflict: America needs a wider coalition, however
difficult; In military terms, coalitions can be more hindrance than help. In political terms
they've much to commend them’ The Independent, 29 March 2003
‘The dictator's strategy: delay to survive’ The Sunday Times, 30 March 2003
‘Saddam's guerrillas will run out of supplies’ Financial Times, 31 March 2003
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‘A strong incentive to acquire nuclear weapons’ Financial Times, 9 April 2003
‘The limits of UN power in the new world order; Analysis: The 2003 Iraq war confirms
that legitimising the use of force through the UN will remain the exception rather than the
rule’ The Independent, 16 April 2003
‘Do not let terrorists hijack the political process’ Financial Times, 23 May 2003
‘A reason for war - or for leaving well alone’ Financial Times, 9 July 2003
‘Lessons in terror’ The Sunday Times, 21 September 2003
‘How will war in Iraq be judged in the future?’ Financial Times, 6 October 2003
‘Blair is more than a junior partner to Bush’ Financial Times, 21 November 2003
‘Will this new strategy in Iraq defeat the rebels?; The problem for Saddam supporters is
that the tide of history is against them’ The Independent, 2 December 2003
‘A grubby end to the Saddam myth’ Financial Times, 15 December 2003
2004
‘A legacy of failure in the Arab world’ Financial Times, 26 January 2004
‘The futility of ‘targeted killings’ Financial Times, 26 April 2004
‘Collateral Damage’ Time Magazine, 24 May 2004
‘America’s battle to regain respect’ Financial Times, 31 May 2004
‘Intelligence test’ FT magazine, 12 June 2004
‘We must guard intelligence from corruption’ Financial Times, 15 July 2004
‘The tough task of containing Iran’ Financial Times, 15 September 2004
2005
‘Rumsfeld’s Legacy: The Iraq Syndrome?’ Washington Post, 9 January 2005
‘Europe must focus on more than America’s weaknesses’ Financial Times, 22 February
2005
‘A failure of European diplomacy’ Financial Times, 18 April 2005
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‘War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Book World’ Washington Post, May 2005
‘War – Official!’ History Today, June 2005
‘The unbelievable truth: the Watergate cover-up shattered trust in government integrity.
But from the sinking of the Belgrano to the war in Iraq, are we now too ready to reach for
a conspiracy theory?’ Financial Times, 30 July 2005
‘The unbelievable truth’ FT Magazine, July 2005
‘Can dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima be justified?’ BBC History Magazine,
August 2005
‘Prevention, Not Pre-emption’ Die Sicherheitsstrategien Europas und der USA. Nomos
2005
‘A reversal on Iraq will not protect us’ Financial Times, 3 August 2005
BOOK REVIEWS
1980
‘The Uneven Logic of Peacemaking’ - review of Protest and Survive (E.P. Thompson
and Dan Smith, eds.) in New Society, 30 October 1980
1983
‘The Strategist's Vocation’ - review of Strategic Studies and Public Policy: The American
Experience (Gray) and Strategic Studies, A Critical Assessment (Gray) in Survival,
July/August 1983
‘So You Want to Start a War’ - review of Conventional Deterrence (Mearsheimer) in The
New Republic, 28 November 1983
1984
‘Storms over the South Atlantic’ - review of The Sinking of the Belgrano (Gavshon and
Rice), in Times Literary Supplement) (9 March 1984)
‘Son of the Fate of the Earth’ - review of The Abolition (Schell), in The New Republic,
11 June 1984
‘Thinking About the Thinkable’ - review of The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy
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(Jervis), in The New Republic, 3 September 1984
‘Getting to No’ - review of Deadly Gambit: The Reagan Administration and the
Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control (Talbott), in The New Republic, 15 October 1984
1985
‘Nattering Nuclear Nabobs’ - review of Counsels of War (Herken), in The New Republic,
22 April 1985
‘Holding Back on Dangerous Play’ - review of Superpower Games: Applying Game
Theory to Superpower Conflict (Brams), in Nature, 14 November 1985
‘Transatlantic Bargains’ - review of The Senate and US Troops in Europe (Williams) and
NATO's Future (Sloan) in The World Today (October 1985)
‘Real Shooting War’ - review of War and Peace News (Glasgow University Media
Group), in New Society, 1 November 1985
1986
‘The Limits of Patience’ - review of The Logic of Deterrence (Kenny), Nuclear Ethics
(Nye), and The Nuclear Debate: Deterrence and the Lapse of Faith (Tucker), in The New
Republic, 21 April 1986
‘The Disarray of Military Strategy’ - review of On the Meaning of Victory (Luttwak), in
Washington Post Book World, 4 May 1986
‘What are Nuclear Weapons Good For?’ - review of Blundering Into Disaster
(McNamara), in The New York Times Book Review (late 1986)
1988
Review of The Korean War (Hastings), in History Today (January 1988)
‘History Lesson’ - review of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (P. Kennedy), in New
Society (18 March 1988)
‘I Exist; Therefore I Deter’ - review of Nuclear Fallacy (M. Halperin) and Blundering
into Disaster (McNamara), in International Security (Summer 1988)
‘The Changing Face of Battle’ - review of The Art of War in the Western World (Archer
Jones), in The Sunday Times, August 1988
‘NATO Doctrinists Undeterred’ - review of Democracy and Deterrence: The History and
Future of Nuclear Strategy (P. Bobbit), in The Sunday Times 1988
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Hedley Bull on Arms Control (O'Neill and Schwartz, eds.) and The SALT Agreement:
Content-Application-Verification, for RUSI Journal Autumn 1988
Policy versus the Law: Reinterpretation of the ABM Treaty (Garthoff), in Arms Control
Today (April 1988)
‘Less Chance of A Fight’ - review of The Blunted Sword: The Erosion of Military Power
in Modern World Politics (Luard), in Times Literary Supplement (15-21 July 1988)
An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and international Studies
(Buzan), for International Affairs, Summer 1988
1989
‘Strife on the Ocean Wave’ - review of The Price of Admiralty: War at Sea from Man at
War to Submarines by John Keegan, The Sunday Times, 29 January 1989
Review of Gottstein, SDI and Stability in Space Policy 5:4 (November 1989)
‘Adventures in the Bomb Trade’ - review of Newhouse, War and Peace in the Nuclear
Age, Bundy, Danger and survival in The New Republic (12 June 1989)
‘View of the Victim’ - review of Halliday, Cold War, Third World, in New Statesman
and Society, August 1989
‘Cry Havoc’ - review of Calvocoressi et al, Total War, Keegan, The Second World War,
Gilbert, Second World War in The Sunday Times, 3 September 1989
Review of Chayes and Doty (ed.), Defending Deterrence: Managing the ABM Treaty in
Nature (16 November 1989)
‘Harvests from the dead, sees in the shadows’ - review of Reynolds, The Politics of War,
Rotberg and Rabb, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars, Holmes, On War and
Morality, Payne, the Conduct of War in The Times Higher Education Supplement (1
September 1989)
Review of Rose, US Arms Control Initiatives, in Survival (November/December 1989)
Review of Adelman, The Great Universal Embrace in The New York Times Book
Review, 19 November 1989
1990
‘Gone with the Whim’ - review of Lakoff and York, A Shield in Space, in The New
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Republic, 29 January 1990
Review of Campbell and MacFarlane (eds.), Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas in
Political Studies
‘Myth of gradualism in security’ - review of Nye, Allison and Canesale, Fateful Visions:
Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe in Futures, April 1990
‘At odds with the experts’ - review of Weinberger, Fighting for Peace: Seven critical
years at the Pentagon in The Times Literary Supplement, 25-31 May 1990
‘Gunning for the third world’ - review of Adams, Trading in Death in The Sunday Times,
10 June 1990
‘Old Contenders’ - review of Nixon, In the Arena and Kruschev, Kruschev on Kruschev
Review of Hitchens, Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies in Sunday
Correspondent
1991
‘What Do They Have, and When Did We Know It?’ - review of Hersh, The Samson
Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy in The New York Times
Book Review, 17 November 1991
Review of Steiner, Bernard Brodie, in Arms Control Today (December 1991)
Review of Gallie, Understanding War in The Times Higher Education Supplement
1992
`The Cold War and After: Prospects for Peace' by Sean Lynn-Jones (ed.), for Political
Studies, 1992
Review of Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography in The Spectator, 21 November 1992
Review of Glynn, Closing Pandora's Box in Nature, 26 November 1992
Review of Schwarzkopf, It Doesn't Take a Hero in The New Republic, 21 December
1992
1993
'The imperial temptation: the new world order and America's purpose' by Robert W.
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Tucker and David Hendrickson, for International Affairs, 1993
'Sickness at the heart of government' The Times Higher, 10 December 1993
1994
`After the Storm: the changing military balance in the Middle East' by Anthony H.
Cordesman, for International Affairs, 1994
'Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century' by Zbigniew
Brzezinski, for Survival, 1994
'War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence' by Susan Niditch, Manna,
Spring 1994
'Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation' by Kimberly
Marten Zisk, for The International History Review XVI, 1 February 1994
'Battle scars' The Times Higher, 25 February 1994
`Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict' by Martin Van Creveld, for The
International History Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 1994
'Cold War hindsights' The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives
by David Reynolds, for The Times Literary Supplement, 9 September 1994
1995
'The Art of Conflict Prevention' by Werner Bauwens and Luc Reychler (eds.), for
International Affairs, January 1995
'The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War' by Bruce Blair and 'The Limits of Safety:
Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons' by Scott Sagan, for Survival, 1995
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate by Scott Sagan and Kenneth N Waltz,
New York, 1995 in International Peacekeeping, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 1995), pp.626627
1996
‘A Hazard of Modern Life’ The World Today (April 1996), p.111
‘Can We Ever Beat Terror?’ Manna (Autumn 1996), pp.3-4
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1997
‘Arts & Books: The story of what did not happen. Lawrence Freedman welcomes fresh
information about the conflict we could have lost - but is not sure how much difference it
makes’ Book Reviews, The Daily Telegraph, 25 January 1997
1998
The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by Jonathan Schell, 1998
in Los Angeles Times/Book Review, 9 August 1998
1999
Sixty Years of Nuclear History: Britain’s Hidden Agenda by Fred Roberts, 1999
in Times Literary Supplement, 24 September 1999
2003
Since 2003, Professor Freedman has produced regular reviews for Foreign Affairs
2004
‘Ready to explode? Review: The Bomb by Gerard DeGroot’ The Sunday Times, 20 June
2004
2005
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. (Review: The New American Militarism)
Washington Post, 8 May 2005
2008
A World of Trouble: America and the Middle East – from the Cold War to the War
on Terror' by Patrick Tyler in RUSI Journal, Dec 2008, Vol. 153, No. 6
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
1976
‘Past Approaches to Arms Control’ IISS Conference on New Approaches to Arms
Control, Cumberland Lodge, 7-9 May 1976
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1978
‘Parity or Petrification: Arms Control in East-West Relations’ Chatham House/Ministry
of Defence Seminar on The Implications of Current Arms Control Measures for NATO's
Nuclear Strategy, June 1978
1979
‘The Soviet Nuclear Threat to Europe: What Has Changed?’ IISS Fourth Conference on
New Approaches to Arms Control: Long-Range Nuclear Weapons In Europe: The
Choices, Cumberland Lodge, 16-18 May 1979
‘Regional Nuclear Forces and Central Deterrence: The Rationale for Medium-Sized
Deterrence Forces’ IISS Twenty-First Annual Conference on The Future of Strategic
Deterrence, Villars, Switzerland, 6-9 September 1979
‘Britain and the European Community: What Has Gone Wrong?’ Sino-European Political
Science Conference on New Forms of International Relations: Implications and
Possibilities in Asia and Europe, Taipei, 2-5 October 1979
‘Arms Control and Britain's Nuclear Weapons Policy’ - submitted to the Defence and
Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the House of Commons Expenditure Committee,
January 1979
1980
‘Arms Control: On the Possibilities for a Second Coming’ Millennium Conference, April
1980
‘The Role of British Forces Outside the NATO Area’ Chatham House/Ministry of
Defence Seminar, July 1980
‘Theatre Nuclear Forces: The Prospects for Arms Control’ RUSI Project on Arms
Control in Europe, October 1980
1981
‘Prospects for Arms Control’ IISS Conference on Strategic Nuclear Concerns in the
1980s, Barnett Hill, 6-8 May 1981
‘The Comprehensive Test Ban’ (prepared with Dr. John Simpson) for the Independent
Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues
‘Battlefield Nuclear Weapons’ for Palme Commission, July 1981
Paper on Verification (with Jim Schear) for Palme Commission, October 1981
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‘Starting Over: The Arms Control Process and Prospects’ Ditchley Conference Report
No. 9/1981
‘Limited Nuclear War’ (with Simon Lunn) for Palme Commission, November 1981
1982
‘The Future of Arms Control Negotiations’ John F. Kennedy Institute conference on
Allies in a Turbulent World: Will Cooperation Endure? January 1982
‘The Falklands War: Exception or Rule?’ for The British International Studies
Association, Southampton, December 1982
‘A British View’ for FOA Symposium on European Security and the Atlantic Alliance,
1982
1983
‘Strategic Superiority’ PSA Conference, March 1983
‘Strategic Stability’ United States Military Academy Conference on the Nuclear Debate,
1983
‘Indignation, Influence and Strategic Studies’ Inaugural Lecture in the Chair of War
Studies, 22 November 1983
1984
‘Escalation and Arms Control’ 34th Pugwash Conference, Bjorkliden, Sweden, 9-15 July
1984
‘Scenarios and Military Planning’ Major Projects Association (1984)
1985
‘Legal, Ethical and Political Problems of Doing SDI Research in Europe’ Economist
Conference on Star Wars: Europe and the SDI, Brussels, 21 November 1985
1987
‘The British Nuclear Experience: An Overview’ 1st conference of the Study and Review
Group, Ebenhausen, July 1987
‘Demographic Change and Strategic Studies’ Conference on Demographic Change and
International Security, 1987
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1988
‘Extended Nuclear Deterrence’ IISS Conference, Brighton, September 1988
‘The Political Impact of the Process of Arms Control and Disarmament (AC/24)’
submitted to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, 11 May 1988
‘European Defense Intelligence: The View from the Allied Capitals’ - presented at the
Defense Intelligence College, May 1988
1989
‘Arms Control at Sea’ Greenwich Conference, Greenwich, February 1989
Participant, ‘What Enemy: Which Weapons?’ Analysis, BBC Radio Four, London, 2
February 1989
‘The Central Front in NATO Strategy’ Kings College Conference: Britain and NATO's
Central Region, July 1989
‘Do Alliances Have a Future’ - presented at Second European session of Advanced
Defence Studies, Brussels, 26 November-1 December 1989
1990
‘Strategic Arms Control in the Post-START Era: The Negotiating Environment’ presented to the Working Group Meeting on Strategic Arms Control in the Post-START
Era, Cumberland Lodge, UK, 19-21 February 1990
1991
‘The Middle East: Political Fallout and Future Prospects’ Bilderberg Meeting: BadenBaden, 6-9 June 1991
1993
'The Politics of Military Intervention within Europe' - talk at Royal Institute for
International Affairs, 18 May 1993
'Strategic Studies and the New Europe' - paper presented at IISS conference, Brussels,
September 1993
'Presentation to Army Seminar' Army Staff College, Camberly, 19 February 1993
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'The Gulf Conflict and the British Way in Warfare' Liddell Hart Center for Military
Archives Annual Lecture, 14 January 1993
1994
‘The Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam’ International Conference (King's College
London, 20-21 January 1994)
'The Security Environment during the Next Decade' - presented at NATO Crisis
Management Seminar, Brussels, 8 March 1994
'External Intervention in the Yugoslav Wars' Humanitas Conference, 25-27 February
1994
'US security policy after the Cold War (including its position on multilateralism' presented at Chatham House Conference Security Challenges for Japan and Europe, 2124 February 1994
'Power and Insecurity in Europe: The 1994 Erasmus Lecture' - presented at Parma, 23
June 1994
'Introduction to Group I: The future of democracy and security in Europe' Königswinter
Conference Report
(With John Gearson) ‘Interdependence and Independence: Nassau and the British
Nuclear Deterrent’ Commonwealth Fund Conference (University College London, 16-17
February, 1996)
th
‘International Relations in the Contemporary World’ 50 Anniversary of Wilton Park, 14
June 1996
2004
‘Who is the terrorist?’ A seminar and debate at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, 5 May 2004. Seminar Transcript. Ashurst pp.19-26
2005
‘Military Responses. Confronting Terrorisms – The Club de Madrid Series on
Democracy and Terrorism’ Vol. II. The International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism
& Security, 8-11 March 2005
2008
Discussant, ‘Developments on the Korean Peninsula’, UK Korea Forum For the Future,
London, 2 June 2008
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Appearance on Press TV panel, ‘Is the US militarising the Middle East?’ – The Agenda,
10 June 2008
Interview on The Dennis Prager Show - Prager Radio, 23 June 2008
Contributor, Start the Week – BBC Radio 4, 7 July 2008
Interview on Today With Myles Dungan – RTE Radio, 10 July 2008
Interview - Chugoku Shimbun Newspaper, 26 August 2008
Interview - Al-Jazeera channel, 29 August 2008
‘Choosing enemies and friends in the Middle East’ – Columbia University, New York, 15
October 2008
Panellist on US presidential elections debate – Union League Club, New York, 15
October 2008
Panellist, ‘The future of war on terror’ - MIT Faculty Club, Boston, 16 October 2008
Panellist, ‘Should Britain pull its army out of Afghanistan?’ – BBC Radio 4, 5 November
2008
Panellist, ‘International Law and International Relations’ – 2008 Temple Festival,
London, 8 December 2008
Interview – LA Times, 19 December 2008
Interview – The Guardian, 19 December 2008
2009
Talk on the impact of western policy on the future of the global jihadist movement International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence conference,
London, 1 October 2009
Talk on Theory of Nuclear Disarmament - National Institute for Defence Studies, Tokyo,
16 October 2009
Talk on establishing an acceptable framework for the fight against international terrorism
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London, 12 November 2009
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2010
Talk on US defence review - Berwin Leighton Paisner Defence Breakfast, London, 17
March 2010
'Korea and the Nuclear Age' - Christ Church, University of Oxford, 16 April 2010
‘The future of nuclear deterrence’ - Centre for Defence Studies Workshop, King’s
College London, 25 May 2010
Conference on Intelligence and Nuclear Proliferation: Threat Identification, Policy
Formulation and Decision Making - King’s College London, 4 June 2010
‘The US and Iran. The start of the end game?’ – LSE, 14 June 2010
‘The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Quinlan’ - paper for La Fondation pour la recherche
stratégique (FRS) workshop in honour of Sir Michael Quinlan, Paris, 21 September 2010.
To be published in Thinking About Strategy – A Tribute to Sir Michael Quinlan (FRS,
April 2011)
‘The Defence Review’ - talk to the D Group, London, 12 October 2010
‘Nature of Changes in World Politics and its Impact on Statecraft’ - paper for
international seminar (‘The Role of Force in Strategic Affairs’) at the National Defence
College of India, New Delhi, 21-22 October 2010
‘Humanity Torpedoed’ - talk at “Violence & Memory” panel, King’s College London, 27
October 2010
‘Strategic Scripts: how to start a nuclear war’ – workshop, King’s College London, 28
October 2010
‘Creating Power’ - Changing Character of War Annual Lecture, University of Oxford, 29
November 2010
2011
‘Assessing the Nuclear Threat’ (discussant) - SOAS, London, 25 January 2011
‘Creating Power: the art of strategy’ – Columbia University, New York, 6 April 2011
‘The future of nuclear weapons’ – Indiana University, Bloomington, 14 April 2011
‘The Counter-revolution in Strategic Affairs’ – University of Pennsylvania, 20 April
2011
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‘Creating Power: the art of strategy’ – Georgetown University, Washington DC, 27 April
2011
‘Making it Personal: Anglo-American Perceptions of Middle East “Adversaries” and the
Shaping of Strategy’ conference (convenor and speaker) – King’s College London, 9-10
June 2011
Global Uncertainties presentation (panel member) – House of Commons, 14 June 2011
‘For the UK a minimum credible independent nuclear deterrent can only be realized by
an SLBM continuously at sea’ (chair) – UK PONI Conference (The Last and Next 60
Years of the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent), 29 June 2011
2012
Opening remarks, ‘Roundtable on Challenges to the Regulation of Armed Conflict International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, London, 9 May 2012
Address, “The Falklands War: 30 Years On” - National Army Museum, London, 12 May
2012
Lecture, ‘After Iraq and Afghanistan: The Future of US Military Strategy?’ - Global
Strategy Forum, London, 14 May 2012
Address, ‘Strategy in Business and War’ - First Tuesday Group, London, 12 June 2012
Keynote lecture, ‘Liberal theory and military strategy’ - ‘Liberal Wars: Strategy, History,
Ideology’ conference, University of Reading, 6 July 2012
Keynote address, ‘The Security Dynamics of Asia: Focus on Middle East and South East
Asia’ - ‘Securing Asia 2012’ conference, London, 26 June 2012
Keynote speech, ‘Liberal theory and military strategy’ - ‘Liberal Wars: Strategy, History,
Ideology’ conference, University of Reading, 6 July 2012
Opening comments on UK and European perspectives on the US international role ‘Britain, Europe and the Global Trends 2030’, Chatham House/NIC Transatlantic Forum,
11 September 2012
Keynote address, US-UK Joint Workshop on Improving Intelligence Analysis for
Emerging Biotechnology Threats – HMS Belfast, London, 12 September 2012
Address, “'Intelligence in the Cold War; what difference did it make?”, Oxford
Intelligence Group, 5 October 2012
Address, ‘American Grand Strategy: A European View’ - Harvard Club of Boston, 15
October 2012
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Introductory remarks on the Middle East and North Africa - ‘The Coming Four Years of
American Foreign Policy’ conference, Chatham House, London, 15 November 2012
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