Staff

Professor Alan Dobson

Profile

I am the Editor of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Chairman of the Transatlantic Studies Association, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and between 1997 - 2004 was also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In 1997 I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. I 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.

I am currently collaborating 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 will be published in due course in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies. In 2008/9 I will guest edit with Steve Marsh a special issue on the 60th anniversary of NATO for The International Journal: Canadian Institute of International Affairs. I am also co-editor with Steve Marsh of the EUP Research Series in Anglo-American Relations and a member of the editorial board of Diplomatic History. I am an Executive Member and UK Chair East-West Trade Study Group, a Member of the Scientific Committee, Instituto Galego de Estudos de Segurança Internacional e da Paz, Galicia 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.

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules:

• International Political Economy
• US Foreign Policy Since 1945
• Political Ideologies

Postgraduate Programmes:

I currently supervise 5 PhD students.

Research

Publications

Selected recent books

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

[Co-authored with Steve Marsh] US Foreign Policy Since 1945 (Routledge, London, 2000 /second edition revised and expanded 2006).

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

Selected articles/chapters

‘Sovereignty, Politics and US International Airline Policy’ (co-author Joe McKinney, Baylor University) Journal of Air Law and Commerce, forthcoming 2009

‘The EU-US Open Aviation Area and Transatlantic Airline Regimes’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, forthcoming 2009

‘From the Instrumental to Expressive: Changing the Objectives of the US Strategic Embargo 1947-1989’, forthcoming, Journal of Cold War Studies.

‘The SEAM and European Integration’ forthcoming Journal of Common Market Studies

‘Abortion and the Neutrality of the Liberal State’, Politics and Ethics Review, 2:2, 2006, pp. 178-202.

‘The Reagan Administration, Economic Warfare and the Closing Down of the Cold War’, Diplomatic History, vol. 29 (iii) (2005), pp. 531-556.

Chapters in Edited Collections

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

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

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

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

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

‘A Special Relationship: Bridging the Europe-America Divide’, Amit Gupta and Cherian Samuel (eds.), The Second Bush Presidency: Global Perspectives, Dorling Kindersley/Pearson Education, 2006, pp. 65-78 (commissioned by Observer Research Foundation, India, ISBN 8177587951.

Research Statement

My main publications cover Anglo-American relations, US foreign policy and the politics and diplomacy of the international airline system. I am particularly interested in exploring the inter-face between economic issues/policies and politics at the diplomatic level. I have just completed two articles - on the development of the single European aviation market and the Churchill-Truman summit meeting of January 1952. My 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.

Suggested areas for postgraduate supervision

I am happy to consider research supervision in any of my areas of expertise indicated above.