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Robert Egnell

Research

I am a doctoral candidate at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, being supervised by Prof. Christopher Dandeker and Prof. Mats Berdal. I am also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and an alumni of London Goodenough College. I am currently based in Dar es Salaam Tanzania where I am an assistant lecturer and research associate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam. See my CV here.

Areas of expertise: 

• Civil-Military Relations

• Peace Support Operations

• Gunnar Wennerberg's Gluntarne

PhD Thesis:

Working title: 'Civil-military relations in the context of peace support operations'

For a research outline please follow this link

 

Past Essays

If you would like to receive a copy of any of the essays below I will be happy to send them by e-mail.  robert.egnell@kcl.ac.uk

War Studies:

• Civil-Military Relations in Peace Operations: Political Leadership without Micromanagement (March 2005, words: 15000)

• Achieving Effect in Contemporary Operations: Network Enabled Capabilities in a Changing Strategic Context (Jan.2005, words: 20000)

• The Soldier of the State: Rethinking the Imperatives of Civil-Military Relations (September 2003, words: 10000)

• Can Terrorists Be Deterred? (February 2003, words: 3000)

• The Usefulness of Huntington's The Soldier of the State for the Analysis of Contemporary Civil-Military Relations (November 2002, words: 3000)

• Did the Experience in the Gulf War Justify the Proclamation of a Revolution in Military Affairs? (December 2002, words: 3000)

• Can the history of warfare be effectively disentangled from history as a whole, or is the result inevitably to produce an artificial thematic unity which neglects key underlying differences between periods and cultures? (January 2003, words: 3000)

• Was the Somalia debacle largely the responsibility of the Bush or the Clinton Administrations? (March 2003, words: 3000)

• The Changing World of Diplomacy and its Effects on Foreign Ministries (April 2003, words: 3000)

• The Use of Summitry and the Evolution of its Practice (January 2003, words: 3000)

Political Science/International Relations

• Transatlantic Decoupling? The Search for a Remedy to the Negative Consequences of the ESDP (May 2002)

• A Promising Start or False Hopes: The Brahimi Report in the Light of New War (March 2002)

• A New Era of UN Peacekeeping: The Brahimi Report in the Light of Two Paradigms (May 2001)

• Products of Their Time: A Contextual Analysis of An Agenda for Peace and the Brahimi Report (March 2002)

• Constructively Criticizing the Critical Critique: A Critical Review of Critical Theory Literature (May 2000)

Swedish Literature

• ”Förädlad Bellmaniana” eller ”äcklig förljugenhet”: En granskning av Gunnar Wennerbergs Gluntarne. (May 2002)

• Gluntarnas Uppsalamiljö: Gunnar Wennerbergs Gluntarne i kultursociologisk belysning (May 2000)

• Gunnar Wennerbergs Gluntarne: "Förädlad Bellmaniana" och det Uppsaliensiska studentlivets själ (May 1999)

• Magistern som mentor och förförare: En studie av förhållandet mellan karaktärerna ur sångsamlingen Gluntarne (December 1998)