Profile

Professor Caroline Kennedy and Dr Thomas Waldman are the co-authors of  ‘Ways of War in the Twenty-First Century Bombs, Drones and Pirates’  Forthcoming Palgrave 2012.

Caroline Kennedy is Professor of War Studies, and Director of the Centre for Security Studies at The University of Hull.  She is currently working on IEDS in a large grant project with Professor Kevin Murphy of Penn State University in the US and working on how combat affects women.  Her research interests include contemporary war, the ethics of war and Cold War politics as well as terrorism and Russian foreign policy. She is currently President of the British International Studies Association and was Chair of the Association from 2004 to 2006.  She has a first class honours degree in History, an MsC Econ in Strategic Studies and a D-Phil in International Relations.

She was previously Chair of War Studies at The University of Warwick and had previously been Chair of International Relations, University of Sheffield.

Her previous posts include Reader in Politics, at the University of Durham and Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Leeds.

Caroline teaches courses on Military History and Contemporary International Politics and supervises doctoral candidates in all areas of Contemporary security policy. She has been quoted as 'One of the UK's leading experts in war' in the Guardian.

See Caroline Kennedy on Stalin's Wars Roundtable, as well as a Roundtable: 'The Future of the Discipline' where four scholars talk about this subject.  See also Caroline on terrorism.

To discuss issues with Caroline visit http://warandsecurity.ning.com/

Caroline will be part of the International Advisory Council on Terrorist Rehabilitation (IACTR)

Caroline is to lecture on ‘Evil Thoughts, Evil Desires, Evil Associations’ (US Foreign Policy after 9/11) at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt in May.

See Caroline on the Cold War at English Historical Review (2011) CXXVI (522) 1240-1242.

Selected Publications

Single Authored Monographs

• ‘The Origins of the Cold War’, Palgrave 2007.
• Russia and the World’,  Edward Arnold, 1998.
• 'The Origins of the Conflict in Ireland', Longman Publishing 1997.
• 'Stalin’s Cold War', Manchester University Press, 1995.

Chapters

• Foreign Policy after 9/11’ in Michael Cox and Doug Stokes, US Foreign Policy. Chapter 20. Second Edition , 2012.
• ‘Tactics of Mistake; Torture, Security and the Ethics of ‘Liberal’ Wars after 9/11. In Annika Bergman-Rosamund & Mark Pythian. Edited, War, Ethics and Justice. New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World. London: Routledge, 2011.  Pp. 9-22.
• ‘Gender and Security’ in Alan Collins Edited, Contemporary Security Studies. Chapter 7. Oxford, Oxford University Press, December 2009. Pp.75-91.
  
  

Some Key Journal Articles

• With Nicholas Rengger ‘ The State of War’ in International Affairs. 2008. Vol.84.no.5. September. Pp.891-902.
• With Andrew Mumford, Torture, Rights, Rules and Wars: Ireland to Iraq’ in International Relations 2007.21. pp.119-126.
• With Nicholas Rengger, ‘Apocalypse Now? Continuities or Disjunctions in world politics after 9/11’  in International Affairs. 2006. Vol.82. No.3. May.
• With Rhiannon Vickers, ‘Blowback ‘ for Britain?: Blair, Bush and the War in Iraq’ in Review of International Studies 2007. Vol.33. pp.205-221.
• With Nicholas Rengger, ‘BISA at thirty ; reflections on three decades of British International Relations scholarship’ in Review of International Studies 2006. 32. Pp.6665-676.
• With Michael Cox, The Tragedies of American Foreign Policy’ in Journal of Cold War Studies.  Vol.7. Issue 1. Winter 2005.
• Whose Security? State-Building and the ‘Emancipation’ of Women in Central Asia’ in International Relations. 2004. Vol.18. pp91-107.
• ‘Women and the Military’ in Journal of Strategic Studies. 2000. Vol. 23. No.4.  pp.32-50.
• With Penny Stanley, ‘Rape in War: Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts in the 1990s’ in The International Journal of Human Rights.  2000. Vol.4.no.3/4 Autumn Winter.  Pp67-84.
• With Colin McInnes ‘The British Army and the Peace Process in Ireland’ in The Journal of Conflict Studies. 2001. Vol. XX1. No.1. p-21-46.

Teaching

Areas of Supervision

• Contemporary Security Issues
• Russian Foreign Policy
• Cold War Politics
• Counter Insurgency