Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman

Professor of War Studies and Vice-Principal (Strategy and Development)

King’s College London

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS1

EDITED BOOKS2

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS3

JOURNAL ARTICLES11

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES21

BOOK REVIEWS38

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS43

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat (London: Macmillan, l977)(Reprinted l986 with new foreword)

Arms Production in the United Kingdom: Problems and Prospects (London: RIIA, July l978)

The West and the Modernization of China (London: RIIA, May l979)

Britain and Nuclear Weapons (London: Macmillan for Royal Institute of International Affairs, l980)

Arms Control In Europe (London: RIIA, June l98l)

Arms Control: Management or Reform (London: RIIA, September 1986)

Co-author, Terrorism (London: RIIA, October 1986)

The Military Threat (Greater London Area War Risk Study, Glawars Research Reports, 1986)

Strategic Defence in the Nuclear Age (London: IISS, Autumn, 1987)

The South Atlantic Crisis of 1982: Implications for Nuclear Crisis Management, (RAND/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior, May 1989)

(With Martin Navias and Nicholas Wheeler) Independence in Concert: The British Rationale for Possessing Strategic Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear History program:

Occasional Paper 5, Center for International Studies, University of Maryland, 1989

The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, (London: OUP for IISS, May 1998)

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (London: Macmillan for International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1981); third edition 2004

Co-author (with Edwina Moreton, Gerald Segal and John Baylis), Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace (London: Macmillan, l983); second edition, 1988

The Atlas of Global Strategy (London: Macmillan, l985)

The Price of Peace: Living with the Nuclear Dilemma (London: Firethorne, l986)

Britain & the Falklands War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Inc, 1988)

Co-author (with Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse), Signals of War: The Falklands Conflict of 1982 (London: Faber and Faber, 1990)

Co-author (with Efraim Karsh), The Gulf Conflict 1990-91, Diplomacy and War in the New World Order, (London: Faber, 1993)

The Politics of British Defence Policy, 1979-1998 (London: Macmillan 1999)

Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam (New York: OUP, 2000)

The Cold War (London: Cassels, 2001)

Deterrence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004)

(With Steven Everts, Charles Grant, François Heisbourg, Daniel Keohane, and Michael O’Hanlon) A European Way of War (London: Centre for European Reform, 2004)

The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, two volumes, (London:

Routledge 2005) (Vol. 1 Origins, Vol. 2 War and Diplomacy)

The Transformation in Strategic Affairs, (London: Routledge for IISS, April 2006)

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008)

EDITED BOOKS

Editor, The Troubled Alliance: Atlantic Relations in the l980s (London: Heinemann, l983)

Co-editor (with Philip Bobbitt and Gregory Treverton), US Nuclear Strategy: A Reader (London: Macmillan, 1989)

Editor, Military Power in Europe: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Alford (London: Macmillan, 1990)

Editor, Europe Transformed, (London: Tri-service Press, 1990)

Co-editor (with Michael Clarke), Britain in the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

Co-editor (with John Saunders), Population Change and European Security (London: Brassey's, 1991)

Co-editor (with Paul Hayes and Robert O'Neill), War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

Editor, War: A Reader, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Editor, Military Intervention in Europe, (Oxford: Blackwells for Political Quarterly, 1994)

Co-editor (with Catherine McArdle Kelleher & Jane M.O.Sharp) The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of Post-Wall Arms Control (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996)

Editor, Strategic Coercion, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

Editor, Super terrorism: Policy Responses (London: Blackwells, 2002)

Co-editor (with Jeffrey Michaels), Scripting Middle East Leaders: The Impact of Leadership Perceptions on US and UK Foreign Policy, (London: Bloomsbury, 2012)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1978

‘The Consequences of Failure in SALT’ in Beyond SALT II (Christoph Bertram, ed.), IISS Adelphi Paper 141, Spring 1978

‘The Superpowers’ and ‘Nuclear Proliferation’ in World War III, (Shelford Bidwell, ed.) 1978

1979

‘Strategic Weapons in the 1980s’ in RUSI and Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1980, Oct. 1979 (and succeeding years)

‘Whose Crisis? Britain as an International Problem’ in Is Britain Dying? (Isaac Kramnick, ed.), 1979

1980

‘Britain's Defence Policy’ in Defence Policies of the Atlantic Alliance (Edwin Feeder, ed.) 1980

‘The Rationale for Medium-Sized Deterrence Forces’ in Adelphi Paper 160, The Future of Strategic Deterrence, Part 1 (Christoph Bertram, ed.)

1981

‘The European Nuclear Powers: Britain and France’ in Cruise Missiles: Technology, Strategy, Politics (Richard K. Betts, ed.), Brookings 1981

1982

‘Economic and Technical Factors in the Sino-Soviet Dispute’ in China, the Soviet Union and the West (Stuart and Tow, eds.), 1982

‘Nuclear Options for Britain’ in Nuclear Deterrence (Donelo and Newman, eds.), 1982

‘The Triangle in Western Europe’ in The China Factor (Segal, ed.), 1982

‘The Conventional Option’ in What Hope in an Armed World (Harris, ed.), 1982

‘The Future of Arms-Control Negotiations’ in Allies in a Turbulent World (Alting von Gesau, ed.),1982

‘Arms Control: The Possibility of a Second Coming’ in The Crisis in Western Security (LawrenceHagen, ed.), 1982

‘Nuclear Arms Control’ in The Nuclear Debate (Phil Williams, ed.), 1982

1983

‘The Great Disarmament Debate’ in Britannica Book of the Year, 1983

‘Grande-Bretagne: La Nouvelle contestation anti-bombe’ in Pacifisme et Dissuasion (Pierre Lellouche, ed.), 1983

‘Nuclear Attack: Civil Defence Aspects of Civil Defence in the Nuclear Age’ in Brassey's 1983

‘Assured Detection: Needs and Dysfunctions of Verification’ in Soviet Power and Western Negotiating Behaviour, Vol. 2. (Uwe Nerlich, ed.), 1983

‘The Military Dimension of Soviet Policy’ in The Soviet Union in East Asia (Segal, ed.), 1983

1984

‘War, Nuclear’ Collier's Encyclopedia, 1984

‘The Future of the British Strategic Nuclear Deterrent’ in The Future of British Sea Power (Till, ed.), 1984

‘Strategic Arms Control’ in Armed Peace (Josephine O'Connor Home, ed.), 1984

‘The Student of War as a Servant of Peace’ in Curricula-Course Development (Colin Milner, ed.),1984

‘The Small Nuclear Powers’ in Ballistic Missile Defense (David Schwartz and Ashton Carter, ed.) 1984

‘Escalation and Arms Control’ in Nuclear Strategy and World Security, Pugwash 1984

‘The United States Factor’ in Soviet Strategy Toward Western Europe (Moreton and Segal, eds.), 1984

1985

‘Strategic Studies’ in International Relations (Smith, ed.), 1985

‘The Wilderness Years’ and ‘The Role of Third Country Nuclear Forces’ in The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe (Boutwell, et al., eds.), 1985

‘The `Star Wars' Debate: the Western Alliance and Strategic Defence’, Adelphi Paper 191 New Technology and Western Security Policy (London: IISS, 1985)

1986

‘Nuclear Weapons and Strategy’ in Studies of War and Peace (Oyvind Osterud, ed.), 1986

‘British Nuclear Targeting’ in Strategic Nuclear Targeting (Des Ball and Jeffrey Richelson, eds.)

1987

‘On the Tiger's Back: The Development of the Concept of Escalation’ in The Logic of Nuclear Terror (Kolkowicz, ed.), 1987

‘Arms control Under Gorbachev’ in National Security Issues of the USSR (Murray Feshbach, ed.), 1987

1988

‘Britain's Nuclear Commitment to Germany’ in British-German Defence Co-operation (Karl Kaiser and John Roper, eds.), 1988

‘L'avenir des forces nucleaires francaises et britannique’ in Pour une Nouvelle Entente Cordiale (Y. Boyer, P. Lellouche, and J. Roper, eds.), 1988

‘Conclusion’ in Geoffrey Till (ed.), Britain and NATO's Northern Flank, (London: Macmillan, 1988)

‘The Strategic Context’ in Philip Sabin (ed.), The Future of UK Air Power (London: Brassey's, 1988)

‘The Reagan Legacy’ in The American Defense Annual (Jo Kuzel, ed. Lexington Books, 1988)

‘The Political Context of Independent Groups’ in Peace and Security: A guide to Independent Groups and Grant Sources, Susan Forrester, ed. (London: The Directory of Social Change, 1988)

1989

‘Introduction’ to British Defence and Foreign Policy, John Young (ed.), Macmillan Press,1989

‘The Evolution and Future of Extended Deterrence’ in The Strategic Changing Landscape: Adelphi Papers 236

‘The Future of NATO's Nuclear Deterrent’ in NATO in the 1990s (S. Sloan, ed.), Pergamon-Brassey's 1989

‘The Future of British and French Defence Nuclear Policies’ in Yves Boyer, Pierre Lellouche, John Roper (eds.), Franco-British Defence Co-operation (London: Routledge, 1989)

‘Thatcherism and Defence’ in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (ed.), The Thatcher effect: A Decade of Change, (OUP: 1989)

‘Defense Cooperation in Political Context’ in William B Taylor, Beyond Burdensharing: Future Alliance Defense Cooperation (US Mission to NATO: April 1989)

Contribution to Gerald Segal (ed.), New Directions in Strategic Studies: A Chatham House Debate, (RIIA Discussion Papers 17, 1989)

(With Michael Dockrill), Introduction to the War Cabinet Minutes (London: HMSO, 1989)

‘Nuclear Deterrence and the Alliance’ in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook, 1989-1990 (Jane's 1989)

1990

‘Arms Control at Sea’ in John Pay and Geoffrey Till (eds.), East-West Relations in the 1990s: The Naval Dimension (London: Pinter, 1990)

(With David Boren), ‘The Future of Short-Range Nuclear Weapons in NATO Doctrine’ in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook, 1990-91 (Jane's 1990)

1991

‘War and Human Rights’ in Robert Blackburn and John Taylor (eds.), Human Rights for the 1990s: Legal, Political and Ethical Issues (London: Mansell, 1991)

‘Henry Kissinger’ in John Baylis and John Garnett (eds.), Makers of Nuclear Strategy (London: Pinter, 1991)

‘Whither nuclear strategy?’ in Ken Booth (ed.), New Thinking About Strategy and Security (London: Harper Collins Academic, 1991)

(With David Boren) ‘Nuclear Weapons’ in Bruce George (ed.), Jane's NATO Handbook, 1991-92 (Jane's 1991)

'The Central Region in NATO Strategy' in Brian Holden Reid and Mickael Dewar (ed.), Military Strategy in a Changing Europe (London: Brassey's 1991)

'Strategy in the Nuclear Age' in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1991 Edition

1992

‘Arms Control in the Alliance: Assessing the Future’ in The Allies and Arms Control (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

(With David Boren) ‘'Safe Havens' for Kurds in post-war Iraq’ in Nigel Rodley, (ed.), To Loose the Bands of Wickedness (London: Brassey's, 1992)

‘Foreword’ in Patrick Garrity and Steven Maaranen (eds.), Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World (New York: Plenum Press, 1992)

‘Europe and the Middle East’ in Ami Ayalon (ed.), Middle East Contemporary Survey (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992)

1993

'The ‘Proliferation Problem’ and the New World Order', in Efraim Karsh, Martin Navias and Philip Sabin (eds.) Non-Conventional-Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

‘Strategic Studies and the Problem of Power’ in War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard, History Today, June 1, 1993

‘The War and the New World Order’ in James Gow (ed.), Iraq, the Gulf Conflict and the World Community, (London: Brassey's, 1993)

‘Recasting European Security’ in Brassey's Defense Yearbook 1993 (London: Brassey's, 1993)

‘Strategic Studies Perspectives: Mindless Eclecticism or Creative Synthesis?’ in Michael Clarke (ed.), New Perspectives on Security, (London: Brassey's, 1993)

`Britain and Nuclear Weapons' in British Defence Choices for the Twenty-First Century, Michael Clarke and Philip Sabin (eds.)(London: Brassey's, 1993)

Lawrence Freedman and Saki Dockrill, 'Hiroshima: A Strategy of Shock' in From Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima: The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Saki Dockrill (ed.),(London: Macmillan, 1993)

‘The Politics of Military Intervention within Europe’ in Nicole Gnesotto (ed.), War and Peace:European Conflict Prevention, Chaillot Papers No. 11, Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union, pp.37-50

'Control and Order in the New International System' in 1992-93 Yearbook of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 1993

(With Beatrice Heuser) 'NATO in Transformation: Toward a Pan-European Security Mechanism?' in European Dilemmas After Maastricht, Beverly Crawford and Peter W. Schulze (eds.),(Berkeley: University of California, 1993). Reprinted as Lawrence Freedman and Beatrice Heuser, 'NATO-ja Ne Transformim:Drejt Mekanizmit Te Nje Sigurimi Gjithevropian', Revista Ushtarake Nr. 1 (6), 1994

1994

`The Theory of Limited War' in Alex Danchev and Dan Keohane, International Perspectives on the Gulf War 1990-91, (London: Macmillan, 1994)

'Strategic Studies and the New Europe' Adelphi Paper 284, January 1994

'Defence Policy' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Major Effect. (London: Macmillan, 1994)

'European Security and the New World Disorder', Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1994(London: Brassey's for CDS, 1994)

'Introduction' in Freedman (ed.), Military Intervention in European Conflicts(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers for the Political Quarterly, 1994)

`War Studies' in Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds.), The Social Science Encyclopedia - Edition 2

1996

‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Relationship Between Conventional and Nuclear Arms Control’ in Lawrence Freedman, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Jane M.O.Sharp (eds.), The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of Post-Wall Arms Control (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996)

‘Conclusion’ in Paul Smith(ed.), Government and The Armed Forces, 1856 – 1990 (London: The Hambleden Press,1996)

1997

‘How Did the Democratic Process Affect Britain’s Decision to Reoccupy the Falkland Islands?’ in Miriam Fendius Elman(ed.), Paths to Peace (Cambridge, 1997)

1999

‘The New Great Power Politics’ in Alexei G.Arbatov, Karl Kaiser and Robert Legvold(eds.), Russia and The West: The 21st Century Security Environment (New York 1999)

2000

‘The split-screen war: Kosovo and changing concepts of the use of force’ in Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur (eds.), Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship, (New York: United Nations University Press, 2000)

‘Victims and Victors: reflections on the Kosovo War’ in Review of International Studies (2000) pp.335-358

2001

‘Interventionist Strategies and the Changing Use of Force’ in Chester A Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall(eds.), Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict (Washington 2001)

‘Rethinking European Security’ in Helen Wallace (ed.),Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration. London: St. Martin’s Press, 2001, 215-230

2002

‘Conclusion: The Future of Strategic Studies Strategy’ in the Contemporary World.Oxford University Press 2002

‘A New Kind of War’ in Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order. (London: Palgrave, 2002)

‘The Coming War on Terrorism’ in Lawrence Freedman (ed.), Superterrorism: Policy responses (London: Blackwell, 2002)

‘Security’ inM. E. Hawkesworth and Maurice Kogan (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Government and Politics, (London: Routledge, 2002)

2004

‘China as a Global Strategic Actor’ in Barry Buzan(ed.), Does China Matter? A Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerry Segal, (London: Routledge, 2004)

‘Can the EU Develop an Effective Military Doctrine?’ in Freedman et al, A European Way of War(Centre for European Reform, May 2004)

‘Hiroshima- A Strategy of Shock’in Gordon Martel (ed.),The World War Two Reader, (London: Routledge, 2004)

2006

(With Geraint Hughes) 'Strategy' in Saki Dockrill and Geraint Hughes (eds.), Advances in Cold War History, (London: Palgrave, 2006)

2007

‘Using Force for Peace in an Age of Terror’ in Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall (eds.), Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, (Washington DC: US Institute of Peace, 2007)

2008

‘Globalization and the war against Terrorism’ in Christopher Ankersen (ed.), Understanding Global Terror, (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)

2009

‘Airpower and the Falklands’ in A History of Air Warfare, John Andreas Olsen (ed.), (Dulles: Potomac Books, 2009)

2010

Foreword to Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent - Estimating the Turkish Threat: Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses, 1974-1996 by Panagiotis Dimitrakis (Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press, 2010)

2011

‘The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Quinlan’ in Thinking About Strategy – A Tribute to Sir Michael Quinlan (FRS, April 2011)

French translation of ‘Nuclear Disarmament’ in Les armes nucléaires ont-elles un avenir? (Do Nuclear Weapons Have a Future?) (Odile Jacob, April 2011)

‘Die Laos-Frage und der Wiener Gipfel’ in Der Wiener Gipfel 1961. Kennedy – Chruschtschow (Studienverlag, May 2011)

‘The Counterrevolution in Strategic Affairs’, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2011 (pp. 16-32)

2012

‘Defining War’ in The Oxford Handbook of War, forthcoming (Oxford University Press, January 2012)

‘The International Politics of the Gulf War’ in Into the Desert, forthcoming (Oxford University Press, 2012)

‘Does Strategic Studies Have a Future?’ in John Baylis, James J Wirtz and Colin S Gray, eds., Strategy in the Contemporary World (4th edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1975

‘Nuclear Proliferation in an Age of Détente’ Current Affairs Bulletin, May 1, 1975

‘Israel's Nuclear Policy’ Survival, Vol. XVII, No. 3, May/June 1975.

‘A Nuclear Middle East’ Present Tense II:2 (Winter 1975)

1976

‘Het kruisvluchtwapen en de Europese veiligheid’ International Spectator (February 1976)

‘Logic Politics and Foreign Policy Processes: A Critique of the Bureaucratic Politics Model’ International Affairs, July 1976

‘The Persistence of Technological Enthusiasm: The Technological Input into US Strategic Arms Policy’ Millennium, Autumn 1976

1977

‘The Soviet Union and `Anti-Space Defence'’ Survival, January/February 1977

‘Britain and a European ForeignPolicy’ World Today, May 1977

‘The Balance of Terror’ New Society, 2 June 1977

‘Morality and Foreign Policy’ New Outlook (July/August 1977) "Towards SALT II" World Today (November 1977)

1978

‘Britain's Foreign Policy to 1985: Britain's Contribution to NATO’ International Affairs, January 1978

‘European Security: The Prospect of Change’ RUSI Journal, March 1978

‘The Strategy of Hiroshima’ The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1978

‘British Foreign Policy to 1985: Britain and the Arms Trade’ International Affairs, July 1978

‘British Oil: The Myth of Independence’ The World Today, August 1978 (Reprinted in Internationale Spectator)

‘Balancing Acts’ Millennium, Vol. 7, No. 2, Autumn 1978

‘Driving Along the Two-Way Street’ Defence Attache, September/October 1978

‘SALT and a Stable Nuclear Balance’Interstate, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1978

1979

‘Has Strategy Reached a Dead End?’ Futures, April 1979

‘The Arms Trade’ International Affairs, July 1979

‘SALT II and the Strategic Balance’ The World Today, August 1979

‘Time For a Reappraisal’ Survival, September/October 1979

‘SALT and NATO’ Ditchley Journal, October 1979

‘Crisis Management’ NATO's Fifteen Nation's, October/November 1979

1980

‘Requiem For Detente?’ The World Today, February 1980

‘The Nuclear Deterrent’ Navy International, April 1980

‘Conservative Foreign Policy: The First Year’ Internationale Spectator, May 1980

‘Defence with a Split Mind’ New Statesman, 17 October 1980