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• ‘Your country is my country': civil-military relations as social reproduction, 1880-1920

  Phillips, M. (Author), Foley, R. (Supervisor) & McCartney, H. (Supervisor), 1 May 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• ‘Scientifics’ and ‘Wycombites’: a study of the Quartermaster General’s Department of the British Army, 1799-1814

  Fletcher, W. (Author), Davies, H. (Supervisor) & Lambert, A. (Supervisor), 1 Dec 2019

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• ‘Designs against a common foe’: the Anglo-Qing suppression of piracy in South China

  Kwan, N. (Author), Jackson, A. (Supervisor), 1 Aug 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Why does the UK have the Military that it has?

  Curtis, A. (Author), Uttley, M. (Supervisor) & Dorman, A. (Supervisor), 1 Jun 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Why culture matters?: an analysis of complexity, acceptance and effectiveness of security sector governance in Ghana and Nigeria

  Addo, P. (Author), Podder, S. (Supervisor) & Olonisakin, F. (Supervisor), 1 Jan 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Why, and how effectively, did the Royal Navy procure, and then use, escort carriers in the Second World War?

  McMeekin, D. (Author), Benbow, T. (Supervisor) & Robb-Webb, J. (Supervisor), 1 Jun 2024

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• What factors influence resilience in tactical-level NATO military logistic units and how can resilience awareness be established at this unit tactical level to improve survival in potential Article V NATO Large Scale Combat Operations?

  Ti, R. (Author), Kinsey, C. P. (Supervisor) & Uttley, M. R. H. (Supervisor), 1 Mar 2025

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• What does it mean to be a soldier?: Negotiating identities in the British Army

  Goodley, H. (Author), Uttley, M. (Supervisor) & McCartney, H. (Supervisor), 1 Apr 2022

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• US National space policies (1960 – 2010): a longitudinal study of civil, national security and space industry influences

  Presley, M. (Author), Hilborne, M. (Supervisor) & Rofe, S. (Supervisor), 1 May 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Unorthodox warfare in the Age of Chivalry : surprise and deception in the Hundred Years war

  Whetham, D. G. (Author), 2005

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Understanding the United States Marines’ strategy and approach to the conventional war in South Vietnam’s Northern provinces, March 1965 – December 1967

  Nevgloski, E. T. (Author), Foley, R. (Supervisor) & Robb-Webb, J. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2019

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Understanding Strategic Surprise: Using Scripts and Empathy to Explain US Security Policy Failures

  Bennett, M. (Author), Payne, K. (Supervisor), 1 Jun 2023

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Turkey’s State-Business Relations Revisited: Islamic Business Associations and Policymaking in the AKP era

  Ilhan, E. (Author), Park, W. H. (Supervisor) & Sayigh, Y. J. (Supervisor), 1 Feb 2014

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Towards theory development on small state foreign and security policy : examining roles, norms and perceptions

  Sherwood, L. (Author), Ellner, A. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The Utility of Unmanned Combat Air Systems Gaining Control of the Air by 2040

  Wills, C. J. (Author), Goulter, C. J. M. (Supervisor) & Sabin, P. A. G. (Supervisor), 2013

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Transition from the Military to Civilian Life: Becoming a Private Security Contractor after Military Service for US and UK Service leavers

  Hawks, A. (Author), Kinsey, C. P. (Supervisor) & Dandeker, C. (Supervisor), 2015

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The transformation of the British expeditionary force on the western front 1914-1918, via a process of learning - lessons, doctrine, and training

  Cook, J. (Author), McCartney, H. (Supervisor), 1 Sept 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Surreal Mission : Tactical Nuclear Weapons, the British Army, and the Defence of the Central Front, 1945-1957

  Moody, S. J. (Author), Hughes, M. K. Y. (Supervisor) & Foley, R. T. (Supervisor), 2014

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The social construction of military unity and a post-merger integration of the unified Peshmerga forces in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

  Gruber-Sytchev, V. (Author), Park, B. (Supervisor) & Griffin, S. (Supervisor), 1 Sept 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The shaping of Polish historic memory in the public sphere after the end of communism: A case study of Polish perspectives and policies towards Russia.

  Cieslar, A. (Author), Sanders, D. (Supervisor) & Kienzle, B. (Supervisor), 1 Oct 2022

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Russian Way of Regular Land Warfare: A Comparative Case Study of Four Major Russian Operations after the Cold War

  Osflaten, A. (Author), German, T. C. (Supervisor), 1 Apr 2024

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Royal Naval Air Service and the Evolution of Naval Aviation in Britain, 1914-1918

  Howlett, A. L. N. (Author), Benbow, T. J. (Supervisor) & Lambert, A. D. (Supervisor), 2018

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The role of inward FDI in enhancing Sultanate of Oman’s national competitiveness

  Al-Kharusi, S. (Author), Roberts, D. (Supervisor) & Hill, J. (Supervisor), 1 May 2022

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The role of e-government in supporting SMEs: “case studies: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain”

  Alkhalaf, N. (Author), Krieg, A. (Supervisor) & Hill, J. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The Public and Proliferation: U.S. Public Opinion of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Programme

  Kwong, J. (Author), Moran, M. (Supervisor) & Williams, H. (Supervisor), 1 Jan 2023

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Prevention of Heat Illness in the British Army

  Bricknell, M. C. M. (Author), 1999

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Medicine

• The potential and limits of air power in contemporary multinational operations: the case of the UK, Polish and Swedish air forces.

  Burczynska, M. (Author), Renz, B. (Supervisor) & Rees, W. (Supervisor), 2019

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The Nigerian Military Contribution to Counter-Insurgency (COIN): A Study of Organizational Culture, Institution, Doctrine and Operations

  Omeni, A. E. (Author), Chin, W. A. (Supervisor), Olonisakin, O. (Supervisor) & Hill, J. N. C. (Supervisor), 2015

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Making of a Sicario Class: Youth Mobilisation into the Mexican Drug War

  Zepeda Gil, R. (Author), Podder, S. (Supervisor) & Berdal, M. (Supervisor), 1 Dec 2023

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The Impact of Iraq on Turkey-US Relations

  Balik, G. (Author), Park, W. H. (Supervisor), Freedman, L. D. (Supervisor) & Chin, W. A. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2013

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY NOTIONS AND THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE OF 1921-1922: REVISITING BRITISH PERSPECTIVES ON THE NAVAL DEBATES

  Lim, J. (Author), Kennedy, G. C. (Supervisor) & Benbow, T. J. (Supervisor), 1 Mar 2024

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The development of amphibious/expeditionary warfare in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1945-1968 : a study in comparison, contrast and compromise

  Liles, C. F. M. (Author), 2011

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The 'deadliest enemy': Experiencing and Enduring Boredom in the British Salonika Force, 1915-1918

  Gasson, J. (Author), 2024

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• The British Pacific Fleet, experience and legacy : a levels of war analysis

  Robb-Webb, J. J. (Author), 2006

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The British Government, the Public, and Nuclear Deterrence

  Corbett, A. S. (Author), Whetham, D. G. (Supervisor) & Bowen, W. Q. (Supervisor), 2017

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The acquisition and use of chemical weapons by violent non-state actors: an opportunistic model

  Earl, V. J. D. (Author), Chin, W. (Supervisor) & Bowen, W. (Supervisor), 1 May 2019

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Storia e dibattiti che condussero alle elezioni dirette del Parlamento Europeo

  Scaramagli, T. (Author), Mechi, L. (Supervisor), 2006

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Social Science

• State formations, nations and Kurdish movements: a comparative analysis from the late Ottoman Empire to Republican People’s Party in Turkey (1923-1945), British Mandate Regime in Iraq (1920-1932), and French Mandate Regime in Syria (1923-1946)

  Aydin, S. (Author), Park, B. (Supervisor) & Podder, S. (Supervisor), 1 Nov 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Spacepower and Space Warfare: The Continuation of Terran Politics by Other Means

  Bowen, B. E. (Author), Shepherd, A. (Supervisor) & Stoddart, K. (Supervisor), 22 Jan 2016

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Space Governance for the 21st Century: Balancing Space Development with Sustainability

  Routh, A. (Author), Hilborne, M. (Supervisor) & Kennedy, G. (Supervisor), 1 Dec 2023

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Soldiers and warriors: mythology and martial identity in the British Army

  Marks, S. (Author), Payne, K. (Supervisor) & Fennell, J. (Supervisor), 1 Sept 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Slog or Swan: British Army Effectiveness in Operation Veritable

  Rooney, D. (Author), Kennedy, G. (Supervisor) & Goulter, C. (Supervisor), 1 Oct 2023

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Situating the Oriental (ISIL) Islamic Other. How discourse shapes the UK Defence narrative

  Campbell, J. (Author), Uttley, M. (Supervisor), 1 Nov 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Setting a New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations: President Obama and the Arab Awakening

  Lilli, E. (Author), Kennedy, G. C. (Supervisor), Lieven, P. P. A. (Supervisor) & Chin, W. A. (Supervisor), 2018

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Ripples in the Periphery of the European Jihadi Milieu: Examining Jihadism’s Developmental Trajectory in Finland, 2012–2020

  Saarinen, J. (Author), Karagiannis, E. (Supervisor) & Chin, W. (Supervisor), 1 May 2021

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Revolutionary Graveyard? The Conduct of Urban Guerrilla Campaigns in Belfast and Dublin, 1919–23

  Kautt, B. (Author), Hughes, G. A. (Supervisor) & Payne, K. (Supervisor), 1 Aug 2024

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect. : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity

  Krieg, A. (Author), Kinsey, C. P. (Supervisor) & Frost, M. L. (Supervisor), 2014

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect: . : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity

  Krieg, A. (Author), Kinsey, C. P. (Supervisor) & Frost, M. L. (Supervisor), 2014

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Private Security and National Military Power: The Ethical Legitimacy of Security Outsourcing

  Parr, R. (Author), Kinsey, C. (Supervisor) & Frost, M. (Supervisor), 1 Oct 2022

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Politics and processes in the collaborative procurement of surveillance

  Paterson, L. M. (Author), Kinsey, C. (Supervisor) & Michaels, J. (Supervisor), 2018

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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