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
In this series members of the Defence Studies Department share the books they are reading this summer. Click here for part I and part II. Dr Avinash Paliwal Vinay Sitapati, Half Lion: How P V Narasimha Rao Transformed India (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2016) This political biography of India’s largely discredited, but immensely transformational prime minister, P V Narasimha Rao,… Read More DSD Summer Reading #3
In this series members of the Defence Studies Department share the books they are reading this summer. This instalment is from a recent addition to the Department, Dr Aimée Fox-Godden. You can read more posts from Aimée here and here. While the redrafting and reading of my own forthcoming monograph has dominated my summer vacation, I have managed to carve… Read More DSD Summer Reading #2
In this series members of the Defence Studies Department share the books they are reading this summer. First off is Dr Chris Tripodi. You can read more posts from Chris here, here and here. I intended to get some reading done over the summer break and set an objective of five particular books – John Buckley’s… Read More DSD Summer Reading #1
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