Publications

The Scottish Centre for War Studies has published one Occassional Paper: Hawthorn, Jack: Some Thoughts on an Independent Scottish Defence Force (out of print).  This paper addresses the defence implications were Scotland to become independent and takes the debate beyond the possible structure of a Scottish navy, army and airforce.

Recent publications by MLitt core staff members include:

Dr. Alex Marshall:

• with Bird, T. Afghanistan: How the West Lost its Way. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300154573 (2011)
• Russian views on the future of transatlantic relations. In: Dorman, A.M. and Kaufman, J.P. (eds.) The Future of Transatlantic Relations : Perceptions, Policy and Practice. Series: Stanford Security Series . Stanford University Press, pp. 174-190. ISBN 9780804771962 (2011)
• Imperial nostalgia, the liberal lie, and the perils of postmodern counterinsurgency. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 21 (2). pp. 233-258. ISSN 0959-2318 (2010)
• The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. Series: Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, 12 . Routledge. ISBN 9780415410120 (2010)
• The Terek people's republic, 1918: coalition government in the Russian revolution. Revolutionary Russia, 22 (2). pp. 203-221. ISSN 0954-6545 (2009)
• ‘Do’s and Don’ts: Avoiding a New Cold War.’ Security & Defence Agenda Discussion Paper, 2008

Dr Phillips O'Brien:

• The 1910 elections and the primacy of foreign policy. In: Mulligan, W. and Simms, B. (eds.) The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000. Palgrave. ISBN 9780230574724 (2010)
• American strategy in the Pacific after midway: from parity to supremacy. In: International Forum on War History, 30 Sep 2009, Tokyo, Japan (2010)
• Warfare and the rise and fall of national power. War in History, 14 (2). pp. 265-278. ISSN 1477-0385 (2007)
• The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922. Series: RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia, 17 . RoutledgeCurzon, London. ISBN 0415326117(2004)
• 'The Titan Refreshed: Imperial Overstretch and the British Navy Before the First World War', Past and Present, # 172, August 2001.
• 'East vs. West in the Defeat of Nazi Germany', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol 23, # 2, June 2000
• British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policies 1900-1936, (Praeger, 1998)

Professor Hew Strachan:

• 'A general typology of transcultural wars: the modern ages' in Transcultural wars from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. (Berlin, 2006) pp. 85-103
• 'Training, morale and war', Journal of Contemporary History. Vol 41 (2006) pp. 211-227
• 'Die Ostfront. Geopolitik, Geographie und Operationen' in Die vergessene Front. Der Osten 1914-15. (Paderborn, 2006) pp. 11-26
• 'Making strategy: civil-military relations after Iraq', Survival. Vol 48 (2006) pp. 59-82
• 'Armee, Generalstab und das Problem des "continental commitment' in Grossbritannien 1904 bis 1914' in Der Schlieffenplan. Analysen und Dokumente. (Paderborn, 2006) pp. 267-92
• 'Time, Space and Barbarisation: the German Army and the Eastern Front in Two World Wars' in The Barbarisation of Warfare. (London, 2006) pp. 58-82, 278-81

Professor Matthew Strickland:

• 'All brought to naught and thy state undone': treason, disinvestiture and the disgracing of arms under Edward II. In: Keen, M.H., Coss, P.R. and Tyerman, C. (eds.) Soldiers, Nobles and Gentlemen: Essays in Honour of Maurice Keen. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, USA, pp. 279-304. ISBN 9781843834861 (2009)
• Treason, feud and the growth of state violence: Edward I and the 'War of the Earl of Carrick', 1306-7. In: Given-Wilson, C., Kettle, A.J. and Scales, L. (eds.) War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150-1500: Essays in Honour of Michael Prestwich. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, USA, pp. 84-113. ISBN 9781843833895 (2008)
• In coronam regiam iniuriam: The Barons' War and the legal status of rebellion, 1264-1266. In: Andersen, P., Munster-Swendsen, M. and Vogt, H. (eds.) Law and Power in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Fourth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History. DJOF Publishing, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 171-198. ISBN 9788757418842 (2008)
• The vanquished body: some conclusions and comparisons. In: Fierro, M.I. and García Fitz, F. (eds.) El Cuerpo Derrotado: Cómo Trataban Musulmanes y Cristianos a los Enemigos Vencidos: Península Ibérica, ss. VIII-XIII. Series: Estudios árabes e islámicos: monografías (15). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain, pp. 531-573. ISBN 9788400087210 (2008)
• The Great War Bow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose, with Robert Hardy (Suttons, Stroud, 2005). Pp. 538, 200 illustrations.