Head, International Security Programme and Carrington Professor of International Security

Expertise

• International security and defence.
• Arms control and technology export controls.
• European security institutions (NATO and EU).
• Ethics of armed force.
• Post-conflict reconstruction.
• Public resilience and counter-terrorism.
• Nuclear proliferation.

Projects

• Cyberspace and the National Security of the United Kingdom

EU counter-proliferation policy (with SIPRI); international rules project (with St Andrews); private security sector; UK R&D policy; bushmeat trafficking.

Recent Publications

• 'National Defence in the Age of Austerity', with Andrew Dorman, International Affairs, 85/4, 2009
• Cyberspace and the National Security of the UK: Threats and Responses, with Rex Hughes and David Livingstone, Chatham House Report, March 2009
• 'Blair's Wars and Brown's Budgets: From Strategic Defence Review to Strategic Decay in Less Than a Decade', International Affairs, 85/2, 2009
• 'The United States and Counterinsurgency: 'Political First, Political Last, Political Always' International Affairs, 85/1, 2009
• 'International Arms Trade Treaty: Gun Control', The World Today, October 2008.
• US-UK Nuclear Cooperation: An Assessment and Future Prospects, ed with J Mackby, CSIS, 2008.
• The CBRN System: Assessing the Threat of Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons in the UK, Chatham House Report, February 2007.
• The UK Contribution to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2002-06, Chatham House Report, January 2007.
• EU and NATO: Co-operation or Competition?, Chatham House Report, October 2006.
  
• 'Civil Defence and Public Resilience: the Homeland Security of the United Kingdom', in K. von Hippel (ed.), Europe Confronts Terror, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
• 'Learning New Lessons: The British Army and the Strategic Debate, 1945-50', in H. Strachan (ed.), The British Army and the Lessons of War, Frank Cass, 2005.
• 'NATO: the practice and politics of transformation', International Affairs, 80/1, January 2004.
• [Editor] 'Conflict in Iraq, 2003', Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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