The Department of War Studies (DWS) is an academic department in the School of Security Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
,
United Kingdom
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. Along with other politics and international studies units at King's College London, it ranks amongst the top places for
international relations
International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...
in the world. The department is devoted to the multi-disciplinary study of war and
diplomacy
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...
within the broad remit of international relations.
The department's alumni includes senior government officials, military personnel, diplomats, journalists, academics and businesspeople. Amongst them are former Prime Minister of Jordan
Marouf al-Bakhit; Special Representative of the
UN Secretary-General for Iraq
Nickolay Mladenov, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Tom de Bruijn and former Commandant General Royal Marines
Sir Robert Fry. The department is affiliated with numerous think-tanks and foreign policy institutions. It also houses numerous research institutes and centres, including the
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LHCMA) at King's College London was set up in 1964. The Centre holds the private papers of over 700 senior British defence personnel who held office since 1900. Individual collections range in size fr ...
.
Since 2019, the Head of Department has been Michael Goodman. The Department of War Studies is located on the 6th floor of the
King's Building on the
Strand Campus
The Strand Campus is the founding campus of King's College London and is located on the Strand in the City of Westminster, sharing its frontage along the River Thames. The original campus comprises the Grade I listed King's Building of 1831 ...
of King's College London.
History
A Department of Military Science existed at King's College London from 1848 to 1859. Military Science was subsequently approved as a subject for the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science general degrees from 1913, and was taught under the Faculty of Arts and also the Faculty of Engineering.
In 1926 the intervention of William Norton Medlicott prevented the Department of History from ridding itself of the lectureship in Military History. With
War Office
The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...
support the Military Studies Department was established in 1926 and formed part of the Faculty of Arts, with Major General
Sir Frederick Barton Maurice holding the Chair. It became known as the War Studies Department in 1943 but was discontinued in 1948, although the subject continued to be taught under the Department of Medieval and Modern History.
Following
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, there was an initiative by senior members of
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
notably
Lionel Robbins
Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed def ...
,
Sir Charles Webster and
Keith Hancock, to revive Military Studies at the University. In 1953,
Sir Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard (29 November 1922 – 30 November 2019) was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University ...
was appointed to the Lectureship in Military Studies, and by 1962 Sir Michael was able to reinstate the Department of War Studies to offer postgraduate courses.
A Bachelor of Arts degree in War Studies was offered from 1992 onwards. The department became part of the School of Humanities in 1989 and the School of Social Science and Public Policy in 2001.
In 2012 the department celebrated its 50th anniversary, with a series of celebratory events to mark the occasion.
Notable alumni and students
Government and politics
![Nataliagherman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Nataliagherman.jpg)
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Marouf al-Bakhit (PhD 1990), former
Prime Minister of Jordan
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The prime minister is appointed by the List of kings of Jordan, king of Jordan, who is then free to form his own Cabinet of Jordan, Cabinet. Th ...
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Martin Bourke (MA 1970), former Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
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Tom de Bruijn (MA 1974), Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
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Eoghan Murphy
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(MA 2005), former Irish Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.
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Tan Chuan-Jin (MA 1999), Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore
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Kayode Fayemi (PhD 1987), Nigerian Governor
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Mark Francois (MA 1987), Conservative Member of UK Parliament
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John Freeman (PhD 1984)
Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
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Christopher Geidt, Baron Geidt (MA 1987), Crossbench peer
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Natalia Gherman
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(MA 1999), former Acting Prime Minister of Moldova
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John Hillen
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(MA 1993), former US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
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Dan Jarvis
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(MA 2011), Labour Member of UK Parliament
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Imran Ahmad Khan
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(BA, 1996), Conservative Member of UK Parliament
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Nickolay Mladenov (MA 1996), UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
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Jiří Šedivý (MA 1994), Director of European Defence Agency, former Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO
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Keith Simpson (postgraduate research 1972), former Conservative Member of Parliament
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Pritam Singh (MA 2004), Singaporean Opposition Leader
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Shaun Spiers (MA 1985), former Labour Member of the European Parliament
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Eleni Stavrou (MA; PhD), Member of the
Cyprus House of Representatives
Military, security and diplomacy
![Stuart Skeates](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Stuart_Skeates.jpg)
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A.T.M. Zahirul Alam (MA 1993), former Force Commander of
United Nations Mission in Liberia
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Sir Adrian Bradshaw (MA 2005), former
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is the commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) and head of ACO's headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The commander is ...
and former UK Commander of Land Forces
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Paul Crespo (MA 1990), former US Marine captain, risk analyst and activist
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Peter Drissell (MA 1994), former
Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment
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Richard A. Falkenrath (PhD 1993), former Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism at
NYPD
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Sir Robert Fry (MA 1987), former
Commandant General Royal Marines
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Sir Wira Gardiner (MA 1980), New Zealander public servant
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Judith Gough
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(MA 2006), former Military Secretary of the Indian Army
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Md Hashim bin Hussein (MA 1991), former Chief of the Malaysian Army
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Ola Ibrahim
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Educated at Ahmadu Bello University (LLB) and King's College London (MA, War Studies), Ibrahim had h ...
(MA 2002), former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Nigerian Armed Forces
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Martin Kimani
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(MA 2003, PhD 2010), Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
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Ahmad Massoud (BA, 2015), President of the
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
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Sir Simon Mayall (MA 2003), former British Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
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Hugh Mortimer (MA 1973), former British Ambassador to Slovenia
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Sir Tim Radford (MA),
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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*
Maroof Raza
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(MA), Indian strategic affairs analyst
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Ayesha Siddiqa
Ayesha Siddiqa
( ur, ), (born April 7, 1966), is a Pakistani political scientist, a political commentator and an author who serves as a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She previously served as the inaugural Pakistan Fellow ...
(PhD 1996), Pakistani military scientist
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Stuart Skeates
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(MA 1999), British Standing Joint Force Commander
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Frank A. Rose (MA 1999), US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance
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Nawaf Obaid
Nawaf Essam Ahmad Obaid (Arabic: نواف عصام احمد عبید) is a Saudi Arabian political scientist, and a former foreign policy & media advisor. He currently serves as the CEO of the Essam & Dalal OBAID Foundation (EDOF) in Geneva, a Co ...
(MA 2011, PhD 2013), political scientist and former Saudi foreign policy advisor
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Petr Pavel (MA 2006), former Chief of General Staff of the Czech Army and former Chairman of NATO Military Committee
Academia, media and business
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Ali Ansari
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(MA 1990), Professor of History at the University of St Andrews
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Ruaridh Arrow
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The film was described as an underground hit with the Occupy movement, whic ...
(BA 2001), Senior producer BBC Newsnight, writer and film-maker
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Abdul Razak Baginda
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, (MA 1984), Malaysian political analyst
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Brian Bond
Brian James Bond (born 17 April 1936) is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London.
Early life and education
The son of Edward Herbert Bond and his wife, Olive Bessie Sartin, Bond was born i ...
(MA 1962), Military historian
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Ahron Bregman (PhD 1994), British-Israeli political scientist
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Paula Broadwell
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(PhD Student), biographer of General David Petraeus
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Matthew Bryden
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(PhD Student), Canadian political activist
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Youri Cormier (PhD 2014), author, professor Royal Military College of Canada, director Conference of Defence Associations (est. 1932)
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Gwynne Dyer
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(PhD 1973), journalist
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Andrew Exum
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Life
After graduating from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenne ...
(PhD 2010), Middle East Scholar
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Daniel Ford
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(MA 2010), author
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Ian Gooderson (MA PhD), Naval historian
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Andrew Gordon (PhD 1983), Naval historian
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Eric Grove
Eric Grove (1948 - 15 April 2021) was a British naval historian and defence analyst.
Biography
Grove was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1948. He took an MA in War Studies at King's College London in 1971 and was appointed that year as a civili ...
(MA 1971), British Naval historian
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Rosemary Hollis
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(MA 1975) British political scientist
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Sam Instone
Sam Instone (born 3 August 1977) is a British businessman who is the founder and current chief executive of AES International. This organization became the fastest growing UK financial services business between 2008 and 2012 and was the winne ...
(BA 1998), Founder and current Chief Executive of AES International
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Andrew Lambert (MA PhD), Military historian
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Michael A. Levi (PhD 2006), CFR Senior Fellow
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Sophie Long
Sophie Rebecca Long (born 7 December 1976) is an English journalist who works for BBC News, mainly appearing as a presenter on the BBC News Channel.
On 18 March 2013, Long and co-presenter Simon McCoy read the final BBC News bulletin from BBC T ...
(BA 1997), BBC News presenter
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Diana Magnay Diana Magnay is a British journalist who is currently Sky News' Moscow correspondent.
She was educated at Wycombe Abbey, and holds a BA in Modern History from St Hugh's College, Oxford where she received the Arnold Modern History Prize in 1999, and ...
(MA 2016), journalist
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Peter R. Neumann
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(PhD 2002), Terrorism expert
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Peter Paret (PhD 1960), Military historian
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Tom Rogan (BA 2008), journalist
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Philip Sabin (PhD 1984), Military historian
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Yezid Sayigh
Yezid Sayigh ( ar, يزيد صايغ) (b. 1955) is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was a professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, a member ...
(PhD 1987), Middle East scholar
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Gary Sheffield
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For most of his career, Sheffield played right ...
(PhD 1994), Military historian
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David Stahel (MA 2000), historian
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Nicholas Stuart
Nicholas Stuart is an Australian journalist who is currently a columnist with ''The Canberra Times'' and editor-in-chief of ability.news'. He is the author of three books about Australian politics.
Early life
Stuart is the child of Ron Stuart, a ...
(MA 1984), journalist
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Geoffrey Till
Geoffrey Till (born in London, England, on 14 January 1945) is a British naval historian and emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He is the Director of the Corbett Centre for Marit ...
(PhD 1976), Maritime historian
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Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster
The title of Earl of Ulster has been created six times in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since 1928, the title has been held by the Duke of Gloucester and is used as a courtesy title by the Duke's elde ...
(BA 1996), Director of Transnational Crisis Project
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Kieran West
Kieran Martin West (born 18 September 1977) is a retired English rower and Olympic champion who represented Great Britain.
Education
Born in Kingston upon Thames, West was educated at Dulwich College, in south-east London, before going to Ch ...
(MA 2005), Olympic gold medal-winning rower
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Colin White (MA 1975), former Director of the Royal Naval Museum
Past and present faculty
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James M. Acton
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Robert J. Art
Robert Jeffrey Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, and Fellow at MIT Center for International Studies.
He subscribes to the theory of neorealism, which argues that force still underlies the power ...
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Mats Berdal
Mats R. Berdal (born 5 October 1965) is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Early life
Mats R. Berdal was born on 5 October 1965. He gained a BSc degree from the London School of Economics ...
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John Bew
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Didier Bigo Didier Bigo (born 31 August 1956) is a French academic from Lille and Professor of International Relations at King's College London and at Sciences Po, Paris. He has authored two books, ''Polices en réseaux. L'expérience européenne'' (1996) and ' ...
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Philip Bobbitt
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Brian Bond
Brian James Bond (born 17 April 1936) is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London.
Early life and education
The son of Edward Herbert Bond and his wife, Olive Bessie Sartin, Bond was born i ...
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Ahron Bregman
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Bill Durodié
Professor Bill Durodié is Chair of Risk and Security in International Relations at the University of Bath, UK. He is a former head of the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies there. His 2011 articles investigating how the ...
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Nicholas Eftimiades
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Educ ...
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Joel Hayward
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Michael Howard
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Vivienne Jabri
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Affiliations
* ''Groundzero: Conflitti globali'' (editorial board member)
* ISA's International ...
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Ashley Jackson
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Mark Laity
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Andrew Lambert
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Lawrence Freedman
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Thomas Gomart
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Barry M. Gough
Barry Morton Gough is a global maritime and naval historian.
Education
Gough was educated at Victoria High School and was a 1957 graduate of Victoria College, which preceded University of Victoria. He completed his bachelor of education degree ...
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Beatrice Heuser
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Richard Ned Lebow
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Anatol Lieven
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Colin J. McInnes Colin John McInnes (born 18 June 1960) is Pro Vice Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation) aAberystwyth Universityand holds a personal professorial chair in thDepartment of International Politicsthere, where his research focuses on ...
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Anand Menon
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John Nagl
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Peter R. Neumann
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David Omand
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Background
Omand was born on 15 April 1947. His father, Br ...
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Richard Overy
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Friedbert Pflüger
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Jonathon Riley
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Andrew Roberts
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Philip Sabin
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John Sawers
Sir Robert John Sawers FRUSI (born 26 July 1955) is a British intelligence officer, diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. He was previously ...
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Yezid Sayigh
Yezid Sayigh ( ar, يزيد صايغ) (b. 1955) is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was a professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, a member ...
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Nigel Sheinwald
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Jack Spence
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Julian Thompson
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Cedric Thornberry
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Guglielmo Verdirame
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Kenneth Waltz
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Simon Wessely
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Ken Young
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Peter Zimmerman
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Tolstoy Cup
The Tolstoy Cup is an annual
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
match played between the students of the Department of War Studies at King's and the Department of
Peace Studies
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...
at the
University of Bradford
The University of Bradford is a Public university, public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be creat ...
since 1995. The rivalry between 'Peace Studies' and 'War Studies' was featured on the ''
Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...
'' list of "Great college sports rivalries".
The competition is named after ''
War and Peace'', the 1869 novel written by the Russian author
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
. The "trophy" is a framed copy of the book. It is kept by the department of the current winners.
References
External links
Official website of the Department of War Studies
{{DEFAULTSORT:Department Of War Studies, KCL
Departments of King's College London
Military education and training in the United Kingdom
1962 establishments in the United Kingdom
Schools of international relations