THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH DEFENCE POLICY
To my Auntie Margaret A force of nature that is sadly missed in our family
The Development of British Defence Policy
Blair, Brown and Beyond
Edited by
DAVID BROWN
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The development of British defence policy : Blair, Brown and beyond.
1. Great Britain--Military policy. 2. Great Britain--Foreign relations--1997- 3. National security--Great Britain. 4. Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2007. 5. Great Britain--Politics and government--2007- 6. Labour Party (Great Britain)
I. Brown, David.
355.033041-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, David, 1974-
The development of British defence policy : Blair, Brown, and beyond / by David Brown.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7489-4 (hbk)
1. Great Britain--Military policy. 2. National security--Great Britain. 3. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence. 4. Blair, Tony, 1953- 5. Brown, Gordon, 1951- I. Title.
UA647.B859 2010
355.033541--dc22
2010008470
ISBN 9780754674894 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315615448 (ebk)
Contents
David Brown
James Sperling
Alistair JK Shepherd
Steven Haines
David Brown
Trevor C Salmon
Stuart Gordon
Stephen Deakin
Anthony Forster
Martin A Smith
Michael Codner
David Brown
List of Tables
List of Contributors
David Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His main research interests are in terrorism and counter-terrorist responses, EU internal security matters and US and UK foreign and security policy. His first monograph The EUs Counter-Terrorism Strategy 19912007: Unsteady Foundations? was published in 2010. In addition, he has written a number of articles and book chapters on such matters, including in European Security and Contemporary Security Policy, as well as co-editing The Security Implications of EU Enlargement: Wider Europe, Weaker Europe? (2007) and The New World Order? Multipolarity in the Twenty-First Century (2011).
Michael Codner is the Director of the Military Sciences Department at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI). He researches and directs research across a range of subjects, including defence policy, strategic theory, military ethics and military acquisition policy and practice. He has written extensively on British defence policy and defence issues more widely. He was previously a Seaman Officer in the Royal Navy. His degrees are in philosophy and experimental psychology.
Stephen Deakin is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, having worked both for the Department of Defence and International Affairs and Communications and Applied Behavioural Sciences. His research interests include British Defence Policy and military ethics. He has published a number of book chapters on such subjects, with a particular focus on the teaching of ethics to military personnel, in publications such as Ethics Education in the Military (2008) and Ethics Education for Irregular Warfare (2009).
Anthony Forster is Honorary Professor of Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, as well as Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). He has written widely on defence and foreign policy issues, notably the European Unions Common Foreign and Security Policy, British defence and foreign policy, the impact of Euro-scepticism on British policy-making and civil military relations across Europe and, more specifically, the politics of the British armed forces. His publications include Breaking the Covenant: Governance of the British Army in the Twenty-first Century, International Affairs (2006) and Out of Step: The Case for Change in British Armed Forces (2007), co-written with Tim Edmunds.
Stuart Gordon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He co-authored the UK governments Helmand Road Map and was also the lead researcher of the Helmand Quick Impact Project Programme Evaluation. He is part of a research network, based in Tufts Universitys Feinstein Centre, that explores the use of development assistance in conflict environments. He specialises in the politics of conflict and has written widely on various aspects of strategic studies principally military strategy, UN peacekeeping and the securitisation of development assistance. During 2003, he was the Operations Director for the US/UKs Iraq Humanitarian Operations Centre in Baghdad with responsibility for restoring Iraqs public food distribution system.
Steven Haines is Head of the Security and Rule of Law Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, having formerly been Professor of Strategy and the Law of Military Operations within the University of London. He was on the Naval Staff in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall during the Strategic Defence Review and was the naval member of the post-SDR Strategic Development Study, which led to the establishment of what is now the MoDs Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre at Shrivenham. While an MoD staff officer he wrote Britains military strategic doctrine, British Defence Doctrine, published in 2001. He has also written widely on an array of international security issues, particularly in the area of international law and the use of force.
Trevor C Salmon was both Professor of International Relations and Director of Teaching and Learning in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, retiring in the summer of 2010. He previously worked at both St. Andrews and Limerick Universities. He has published several books on the European Community/Union, including a co-authored volume, with Alistair JK Shepherd, Toward a European Army: A Military Power in the Making? (2003), a major book on the foreign and security policy of the Irish Republic,