On October 8th, professor Pascal Vennesson from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University will speak at the first seminar in this year’s series. The seminar is held for the occassion of the book launch of professor Sibylle Scheipers’ new book: ‘On Small War’. This study concerns Clausewitz’s engagement with … Read more
The address given by Lt Gen 9ret David A Deptula on 8 May at the ISWS’ airpower conference has been published in the framework of the Mitchell Institute Policy Paper Series under the title ‘The St Andrews Proclamation: A Pragmatic Assessment of 21st Century Airpower’.
The ISWS has sponsored a series of podcasts on Iran, which feature ISWS’s own Professor Ali Ansari and Dr Jasmine Gani. Listen in!
Professor Guy Rowlands will be giving his Inaugural Lecture at the University of St Andrews on Wednesday 19th April at 5.15pm in School III of St Salvator’s Quadrangle on North Street, St Andrews. ‘Glamping with Guns. Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne, and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise’. The history of war and … Read more
Professor Eliot A Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He will introduce his new book, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force (New York: Basic Books, 2016), but he will be happy to discuss students’ dissertation topics. Arts seminar … Read more
The Institute for the Study of War and Strategy was delighted to host the UK’s Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon on 2 February 2017. He gave postgraduate students from the School of International Relations the opportunity of engaging in discussion in a closed session before he delivered a lecture on ‘Resurgent Russia’ … Read more
The centenary of the First World War has been and continues to be commemorated at national level with events to mark the major military and political waypoints, from the outbreak of war by way of Gallipoli, the Somme and Ypres to the armistice. And yet the war’s scale demanded more than just a major military … Read more
‘Sir Hew Strachan is his favourite strategist’: Thomas E Ricks on Trump’s choice of Gen ret James Mattis for Defense Secretary. See also ‘What Gen Mattis’s favorite strategist thinks of the election of Trump’
Dr Rory Cox has won Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaboration Research Fellowship. Rory has been appointed to a year-long Humanities Collaboration Research fellowship, based jointly at the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, during the academic year 2017-2018. The fellowship is part of a programme led by Professors Warren Brown and Jennifer Jahner. The two-year research project explores … Read more
In September 2016 Professor Phillips O’Brien joined the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy as the University of St Andrews new chair in Strategic Studies. He was drawn to the job by the chance to work with some of the greatest scholars in the field today, coming from a range of disciplines such … Read more