Professor Alan Dobson

Contact Details:

Email: a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384588

Professor Dobson is Editor of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Chairman of the Transatlantic Studies Association, a member of the editorial board of Diplomatic History, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and between 1997 - 2004 was also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In 1997 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He held the Lenna Visiting Fellowship at St. Bonaventure University, NY, USA in 2005 and was a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor at the McBride Centre for International Business Studies, Baylor University, Texas, in March 2008, where he worked with Professor Joe McKinney on contemporary US civil aviation policy.

Recently Professor Dobson was involved in collaboration with Professor Jussi Hanhimaki (Geneva and Tampere universities) concerning the 'Finland Distinguished Professor Programme' on transatlantic relations and the Cold War: selected proceedings of its May 2008 conference were published in 2010 as ‘Conlict and Community: transatlantic Relations During the Cold war’ in in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies. (8:1, March 2010). He also worked with Luis Nuno Rodrigues from Lisbon and was a member of the organising committee of the NATO sponsored conference on Political and Social Impact of Military Bases, held at the Portuguese Joint War College, Lisbon, in December 2007, and he took part as a Chair and Discussant in a follow-up NATO sponsored conference on contemporary challenges held in May 2010. In 2009 he guest edited with Steve Marsh a special issue on the 60th anniversary of NATO for The International Journal published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He is co-editor with Steve Marsh of the EUP Research Series in Anglo-American Relations and co-editor of a collection of essays by internationally distinguished scholars about the 70th anniversary of the US-UK special relationship (i.e. since the Destroyers for bases deal in September 1941), which is currently underway.

At the moment he is writing a book on Franklin Roosevelt and the development of US domestic and international civil aviation partly funded by Carnegie and the Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Institute and an article on Canadian wartime civil aviation funded by the Canadian High Commission in London.

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules

Theorising Politics

Postgraduate

Professor Dobson contributes substantially to the MLitt in International Politics and Security and currently supervises 2 PhD students and an MPhil by research.

Research

Professor Dobson's main publications cover Anglo-American relations, US foreign policy and the politics and diplomacy of the international airline system. He is particularly interested in exploring the inter-face between economic issues/policies and politics at the diplomatic level. His next two books will be on Franklin D. Roosevelt and the creation of the post-war international aviation system and a longitudinal study with Steve Marsh of Anglo-American summitry from 1941-1961. He also has a project to analyse the genesis and contemporary and future impact of the transatlantic common aviation area, dependent upon the outcome of funding applications.

Publications

Selected recent books

Globalisation and Regional Integration: The Origins, Development and Impact of the Single European Aviation Market (London: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2007)

US Foreign Policy Since 1945, with Steve Marsh (London: Routledge, 2000/second edition revised and expanded 2006)

US Economic Statecraft for Survival 1933-1991: Of Embargoes, Strategic Embargoes, and Economic Warfare (London: Routledge, 2002)

Selected articles/chapters

'Civil Aviation and European Integration: Creating the Seemingly Impossible SEAM', Journal of Common Market Studies, 48:4 (2010), 1127–1147

'Churchill and Truman at the Summit: SACLANT and the Tone of Anglo-American Relations in January 1952', International History Review, 32:2 (2010), 211-228 [Co-authored with Steve Marsh]

'From Instrumental to Expressive The Changing Goals of the U.S. Cold War Strategic Embargo', Journal of Cold War Studies, 12:1 (2009-2010), 98-119

'Negotiating the EU-US Open Aviation Area Agreement 2007 in the Context of Transatlantic Airline Regimes Since 1944', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 20:1 (2009), 136-161

'Sovereignty, Politics and US International Airline Policy', Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 74:3 (2009), 527-553, ISSN0021-8642 [Co-authored with Prof. Joe Mckinney (Dobson 85%)]

'The Reagan Administration, Economic Warfare and the Closing Down of the Cold War', Diplomatic History, 29:3 (2005), 531-556

Chapters in Edited Collections

'Roosevelt and The Struggle for a Post-War Civil Aviation Regime: Legacy Or Loss?', in FDR's World: War, Peace and Legacies, ed. by Woolner, Kimball and Reynolds (Palgrave, 2009).

'Operation Lamachus - The Cold War Comes to Scotland: the Holy Loch US Nuclear Submarine Base and its Impact on Scotland 1958-1973', with Dr. Charles Whitham, in Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, ed. by J. Engel (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008).

'Some Thoughts about Concepts and Explanation', in East West Trade and Cold War, ed. by Jari Eloranta and Jari Ojala (University of Jyväskylä Press, 2005).

'The Atlantic Alliance and Blair's Pivotal Power: Trying to Make all Things Special', in The Future of Transatlantic Relations, ed. by Richard A. Chilcoat, Joseph R. Cerami, and Patrick B. Baetjer (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2006), pp. 45-57.

'L'administration Reagan, la guerre économique et la fin de la guerre froide', in Les relations internationals au temps de la guerre froide, ed. by Paul Vaisse and Klaus Morgenroth (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 189-277.

'A Special Relationship: Bridging the Europe-America Divide', in The Second Bush Presidency: Global Perspectives, ed. by Amit Gupta and Cherian Samuel (Dorling Kindersley/Pearson Education, 2006), pp. 65-78 (commissioned by Observer Research Foundation, India).

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