DR BEN KIENZLE Finally: it’s summer. The time of skimming books and speed reading has come to an end (albeit only for a short time). Summer also offers the opportunity to look beyond the narrow confines of one’s own research niche. It’s time to ‘think big’! As part of the annual course at RCDS, members… Read More DSD Summer Reading #7
DR CHRIS TRIPODI Oddly, and in contrast to my colleagues, there’ll be relatively little reading happening for me this summer. Largely because the summer recess that I do get (i.e. August) will be spent writing. Consequently, most of my summer reading has already been done. And very illuminating it has been, I must say. Research… Read More DSD Summer Reading #6
DR DAVID MORGAN-OWEN This summer finds me thinking about how to approach a new book project. I have a sense of what I want to write about, and have been thinking about and researching the topic – or at least around it – for close to a decade. Yet how to break ground on it,… Read More Reading & Research this summer
DR ROBERT T. FOLEY I must admit I have rarely planned my summer reading in advance. However, inspired by recent posts by my colleagues from Defence Studies, I thought it would be useful to do so this year. As I sat down to think through what I would really like to read over summer, a… Read More DSD Summer Reading 2018 #5
WHITNEY GRESPIN This fall I’ll be adjunct instructing a course on “Defense Contracting in Practice” at George Washington University’s Elliott School. Inspired by my participation last year in Bridging the Gap’s International Policy Summer Institute, I pitched a course that directly ties my scholarship in to practitioner and policy interests. In preparation for this, I… Read More Summer Reading #4
DR JEFFREY MICHAELS As this academic year comes to a close, so too have I reached my limit for non-fiction. And having read too many essays consisting of sentence fragments, I thought I’d begin my holiday by reading an author known for the longest sentences in literature. Thus I look forward to Marcel Proust’s In Search… Read More DSD Summer Reading #3
PROF GREG KENNEDY Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Vintage, London, 2017. Varoufakis’ tale of political failure, moral victory and individual weakness is a modern day tale of strategic thought and planning that speaks to the very core of many of the themes raised in various courses here at… Read More DSD Summer Reading #2
This is the first in a series of short posts in which members of the Defence Studies Department share what they have been/will be reading this summer. We hope that you’ll be inspired to pick some of the titles up for yourself! DR KEN PAYNE My next writing project is about sex and statecraft, so… Read More DSD Summer Reading 2018 #1
As teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College begins again at the outset of a new academic year, the final post of this series reveals what members of the Defence Studies Department have been reading over the summer. Dr. David Morgan-Owen This summer I have been enjoying John Bew’s book Realpolitik: A History. The book is an ambitious attempt… Read More Summer Reading #5
This post forms part of a series where members of the Defence Studies Department share their thoughts on the books they are reading this summer. This post is by DR AMIR M KAMEL see more of his posts here, here and here. The book: Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance has provided for an… Read More DSD Summer Reading #4
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