Welcome to the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy.  The ISWS provides a network and platform for the study of war and strategy. Bringing together practitioners and scholars, the ISWS aims to facilitate interdepartmental research and public debate.

Professor Guy Rowlands’ Inaugural Lecture

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 gives talk at St Andrews

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

Sir Michael Fallon visit to St Andrews

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 British Home Front 1914-1918

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