Jonathan Ward spoke on his research on the Indian Ocean for the Defense & Aerospace Report with Vago Muradian.
Call for articles: The New Strategist
The New Strategist Journal welcomes submissions from academics and policymakers across all disciplines including international relations, political science, military history, strategic studies, political sociology, political economy, anthropology, organisational and management studies, and all fields related to international affairs, security and policy. The New Strategist Journal aspires to be a forum for ‘disruptive’ thinking, critique, challenge, and innovation and therefore inter-disciplinary submissions are particularly welcome.
Michaelmas Term Card
CCW are looking forward to an array of interesting speakers and exciting events in the coming term. Our term card with information about the regular seminar series has just been published. Further information about special events such as a study day on Operational Art and a special lecture by Rob Johnson on the Great War in the Middle East will follow shortly.
The new politics of Russia: Interpreting change
Andrew Monaghan, CCW Visiting Fellow, has just published a new book looking at why we tend to get Russia wrong -
and are surprised by it - and how we might go about thinking about it. It includes a chapter on Russia's relations with the Euro-Atlantic community, and two chapters on Russian domestic politics, one of them exploring the wider political landscape, the other looking at who's who and why.
From Aotearoa to Oxford: Commemorating the New Zealand Soldiers buried at Botley Cemetery
Research Work Available
Great War in the Middle East
Rob Johnson's latest book has been described by Roger Owen (Harvard) as 'far and away the best military history of the Great War in the Middle East'. Many of the most commonly accepted assertions about the First World War in the Middle East are more often stated than they are truly tested. Rob now seeks to put this right by examining in detail the strategic and operational course of the war in the Middle East.
The Great War in the Middle East will be published by OUP in October.
Book Review: Horvath, R. Putin’s Preventive Counter-Revolution. Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the spectre of velvet revolution
CCW Hosts First Executive Leadership Course
In Conversation with Annette Idler
Annette Idler discusses her research on peace negotiations in Colombia with Adam McCauley. Originally published as a feature piece for the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
In Conversation with Romain Malejacq
CCW Director of Studies Annette Idler writes for the Washington Post
CCW Director of Studies Annette Idler writes for the Washington Post on the Colombian Peace Process. A link to the article can be found here.
Book Review: 2017: War With Russia. An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command by Andrew Monaghan
Ukraine Crisis in Hybrid Warfare Context with a Historical Perspective
CCW Visiting Fellow Dr Andrew Monaghan delivered a paper at the International Conference on Military and Security Studies (ICMSS) 2016, organised by the Turkish Army College on 14-16 March 2016. It is now available as part of the CCW 'Critically Thinking' Series.
Russian State Mobilization: Moving the Country on to a War Footing
CCW Visiting Fellow Andrew Monaghan has recently published an article with Chatham House examining Russian mobilisation and preparation for war. The article sets out what mobilisation means in Russian thinking, why it is taking place, and what it means in practical terms.
Article available here.
The First World War in the Middle East: 1911-1923. A Brief Report to the Globalising and Localising Great War Project
A conference was held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Pembroke College of the University of Oxford between 20 and 22 April 2016, to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Arab Revolt and a critical stage in the First World War. It was wonderful to be able to bring together a great diversity of scholars from several nationalities and disciplinary specialisms, including cultural history, literature, Russianists, Arabists, and military history. If we needed any reminder that the First World War was a global war, then the range of papers and the cohering theme of the Middle East in the context of the conflict underscored it admirably. Resonances with the present also appeared throughout the conference. At a time when commentators talk of an era of perpetual war, especially with regard to the Middle East, our group of scholars set out to explore the period 1911-1923 and in doing so challenge and test the assertion that the conflicts of the present are the inherited legacies of the First World War.
The Evolution of Modern Grand Strategic Thought
New Event: The Great War in the Middle East 1911-1923
As part of a series of events on the First World War in the Middle East, there will be a one-day study day in Pembroke College on Friday 22 April. Speakers include Professor Eugene Rogan and Professor Margaret Macmillan. Please contact ruth.murray@pmb.ox.ac.uk to register to attend.
A link to the programme can be found here.
The New Biafrans: Discussing Discontent
A recent CCW public lecture illustrates the complexities of academic analysis in an increasingly connected world.
On March 8, 2016, Olly Owen’s public lecture for Changing Character of War (CCW) of drew unexpected attention. Owen, an anthropologist with Oxford’s Department of International Development, intended his discussion, The New Biafrans: Historical Imagination and Structure Conflict in Nigeria’s Separatist Revival, to be an exploration of history, memory, economics and politics in Nigeria’s southeast. The hope, Owen told CCW, was to prompt further investigation into the roots of the Nigerian independence movement, which has waxed and waned since the 1960s.
The New Strategist now available online
The New Strategist is a collaborative journal between the CCW Programme and the UK MOD's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre. The journal aims to acquaint readers with excellent and innovative multi- and inter-disciplinary scholarship in strategic studies that address the pressing concerns of strategic leaders in the fields of defence and security.
