Academics
Rob Dover
Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes Email R.M.Dover@lboro.ac.uk |
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I was awarded my ESRC-funded PhD in 2004 by the University of Bristol, having transferred from King's College London in 2002. My thesis examined the Europeanization of British defence policy and European integration theory and forms the backbone of the book I published in 2007. I got my first job at the University of Bristol in 2003 as the Deputy Director of the Governance Research Centre (now the Centre for Governance and International Affairs), which is part of the Department of Politics. I then moved to the Defence Studies Department at King's College London in January 2006 as a Lecturer in Defence Studies. In August 2006 I became the Director of the MA in Defence Studies, the largest social science Masters in the UK, with over 270 students drawn from British and foreign armed forces and was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy at this time. I joined The Dept. of Politics, History and International Relations in August 2007, and from 2009 I will convene the taught postgraduate programmes, as well as convening the cohort wide Dissertation Module, and third year option courses on Security Studies and Intelligence Studies. |
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My research interests now include the government's use of intelligence, the European arms trade and British and European foreign and defence policy. I am happy to supervise PhD students in any of these research interests.
In the summer of 2007 Philip Davies (Brunel) and I were awarded an ESRC grant to hold six one-day research workshops on 'Intelligence and Governance in the 21st Century'. In April 2008 I was awarded the Wilfred Harrison Prize by the Political Studies Association. I am also the Treasurer of the PSA and BISA affiliated 'Security and Intelligence Specialist Group (SISG)' and the Secretary of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union.
Along with Richard Aldrich, Sir Lawrence Freedman and Michael Goodman, I edit the 'Intelligence and Security' book series (launched in 2009), published by Hurst & Company in the UK and Columbia University Press in the US.
I am also a contributor to the well circulated ‘blog’ ‘Kings of War’, which is the blog and discussion forum for current and former members of staff and post-graduate research students at KCL.
Detailed searchable list of publications
Recent Publications
Books
The Europeanization of British Defence Policy 1997-2005 (published July 2007) - which has been reviewed in 'Survival', 'Political Studies Review', 'Journal of Contemporary European Studies', ‘Millennium’ and the 'EUSA Review'.
Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence, (Hurst & Company and Columbia University Press), June 2009, co-edited with Michael Goodman (KCL).
Learning Lessons from Intelligence, (forthcoming August 2010), co-edited with Michael Goodman (KCL).
Journal articles
'Lost in Translation: The EU, Russia, and the Crisis in Georgia' in the Journal of International Affairs (Moscow), Vol.54, October 2008, pp.29-36.
'The EU's Immigration Policy. A Securitization Too Far', Journal of European Integration 30 (1), 2008, pp. 113-130.
‘For Queen and Company – The Role of Intelligence in the UK’s Arms Trade’. Political Studies 55 (4), 2007, 683-708). (Winner of the PSA’s Wilfrid Harrison Prize, awarded April 2008; Recommended in the 2007 reading guide of the think-tank ‘Analyst Centre’; and it was reprinted in a virtual issue of Political Studies as a special issue dedicated to Harrison Prize winners.
‘The EU’s Joint Actions on Anti-Personnel Mines and Unexploded Ordnance: Finding a Security Policy Identity’. European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol.11, No.4, 2006, pp.401-17.
‘A Silent Debate: The Role of intelligence in the UK Arms Trade’ - -International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence, Vol.19, No.1, 2006, pp.110-119.
‘The Prime Minister and Core Executive: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist reading of the Europeanization of British defence policy (1997-2000)’ –British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol.7, No.4, 2005, pp.508-525
‘The EU and the Bosnian Civil War 1992–95: The Capabilities–Expectations Gap at the Heart of EU Foreign Policy’ – European Security, Vol.14, No.3, 2005, pp.297-318.
Other Articles
“Anti-Arms Trade Activism, the Defence Industry and the next four years’ in World Defence Systems, December 2009.
‘Bridging the Gap? The Relationship between Defence Manufacturers and Academia’, in World Defence Systems, September 2009.
'Changing the Game? The Prospects for Asymmetric Acquisition' in World Defence Systems, February 2009
'The Securitization of EU Policies: Trends and Comparisons' in Jacki Davis (Ed), Challenge Europe: Is Big Brother Watching You? And Who is Watching Big Brother?' European Policy Centre, December 2008, pp.89-96
‘The British Presidency of the EU (2005): Stasis, Anxiety and Partial Victories’ (translated into Russian) - Vestnik Analitiki (Analytical Messenger,The Journal of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Analysis, Moscow), Vol.6, No.2, 2006, pp.84-98.
Book Chapters
‘CFSP and ESDP’ in Michelle Cini (Ed.), ‘European Union Politics, 2nd Edition’, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.237-252.
‘CFSP and ESDP’ in Michelle Cini & Nieves Borragan (Eds.), ‘European Union Politics, 3rd Edition’, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2009).
'From Vauxhall Cross with Love: The Portrayal of Intelligence in the Cinema' in Dover and Goodman (eds.), Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence, (Hurst & Company and Columbia University Press), June 2009.
‘The Scott Report – Intelligence and the Arms Trade’ in Dover and Goodman (eds), Learning Lessons from Intelligence, (forthcoming August 2010).
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Conference Papers
'Power and Purpose in the Wider World' presented at the John Hopkins University, Bologna Center Conference Series in International Relations, April 2008.
'Roundtable: Intelligence and Theory', Political Studies Association Conference, Swansea April 2008.
'Grandma's Army: Arms Trade Intelligence and Campaign Groups' presented to the British International Studies Association Conference, Cambridge, December 2007.
'The Role of Intelligence in the Global COIN campaign' presented to the European Consortium on Political Research General Conference, Pisa, September 2007.
Security and Intelligence Studies Panel, “Unwritten Assumptions - The Role of Theory in Intelligence”, presented at the British International Studies Association Conference, Cork, December 2006.
Security and Intelligence Studies Panel, ‘Demilitarizing the Global War on Terror’, presented at the British International Studies Association Conference, Cork, December 2006.
“The European Arms Trade – The Fast and Slow Track of Europeanization” presented at the Political Studies Association Conference, Reading, March 2006.
Security and Intelligence Studies Panel ‘Intelligence and Proliferation: Problems and Options’, Paper Title: ‘The role of intelligence in UK arms exports licensing’ presented at the Political Studies Association Conference, Leeds, March 2005.
'Up in Arms: Rethinking Debates about the Arms Trade’, presented at the British International Studies Association Conference, St Andrews, December 2005.
‘European Security and Defence Policy – A Liberal Intergovernmentalist revival?’ presented at the University Association of Contemporary European Studies Conference, Birmingham, September 2004.
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Book Reviews
Gordon Thomas, Inside British Intelligence, JR Books, 2009, in Defence Studies (forthcoming)
Michael Goodman, Spying on the Bear, Stanford University Press, 2007, in the Journal of Strategic Studies, 32(5), 2009, 799-801.
Gordon Corera, Shopping for Bombs, Hurst and Company, 2006, in the Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2008, 333-335.
Hazel Smith, European Union Foreign Policy: What it is and What it Does, Pluto Press, 2002. In European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol.8, No.3, 2003, pp.417-8.
Kjell Goldman, Transforming the European Nation State, Sage, 2001, in European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol.9, No.3, 2004.
Jolyon Howarth & John Keeler, Defending Europe, Palgrave, 2003, in Journal of European Affairs, Vol.3, No.3, 2004.
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In preparation
2010 Article - ‘Disarming Dissent’
2011 Book - 'A Social Theory of Intelligence - What is Secret Intelligence For?'
2011 Book - ‘Intelligence and Nuclear Proliferation’ - (Wyn Bowen, Robert Dover & Michael Goodman) (funded by the MacArthur Institute)
Research Students
Lorenzo Cladi – The EU as a balancing power
Mika Obara – EU-Japanese Relations
Michiel van Ingen – Misunderstanding Somalia: (Neo)liberalism and the Methodological and Historical Sources of Fiasco