Professor Peter Jackson
(Principal Investigator)
Professor of Global Security
HU - HISTORY
COLLEGE OF ARTS
History of International Relations, Contemporary European History and Politics, Social Theory and International History, Intelligence and International Security.
I received my PhD in History from the University of Cambridge in 1995 before taking up a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. I was appointed as a lecturer in International History and Intelligence Studies at Aberystwyth University in 1998. From 2004 through 2015 I was editor of Intelligence and National Security, the world's leading journal on intelligence and security issues. I left Aberystwyth to join the History Department at Strathclyde in 2011. I took up the Chair in Global Security at the University of Glasgow in 2013. I am also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society. I was Visiting Professor at the History Department at 'Sciences po' for the academic year 2012-2013 and at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne for the academic year 2017-2018. From 2015-2017 I led an AHRC-funded Research Network entitled 'The Practice of International History in the Twenty-First Century'. I am presently PI on a major AHRC Research Grant entitled 'The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations since 1815', which will begin in June 2018 and run through to the end of 2021. With my colleague Christian Tams, Chair of International Law here at the University of Glasgow, I also lead a Research Network funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh entitled ‘Visions of Global Order: Peace, Law and Security after the First World War’.
Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro
(Co-Investigator)
Dr Pastor-Castro is a Lecturer in International History at the University of Strathclyde. She works on Franco-British relations in the twentieth century, with particular focus on British and French foreign policies since 1940. She is principally interested in Franco-British relations during World War Two, the origins of the cold war, European security and integration, and the role of ambassadors and the resident embassy. She led a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Award on ‘Relations between Britain and France in World War Two’ which included an event at the French Embassy in London, hosted by Ambassador Jean-Pierre Jouyet, entitled ‘Britain, France and Europe: Reassessments’. She has published on diplomacy and European security and her volume (edited with John W Young) on ‘The Paris Embassy: British Ambassadors and Anglo-French Relations, 1944-79’, was the basis for a Witness Seminar at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office entitled ‘The History, Role and Functions of the British Embassy in Paris’. Her volume on Embassies in Crisis (edited with Martin Thomas) will be published by Routledge in 2019 and is based on a conference that brought together historians, diplomats and FCO staff. She is the Secretary of the British International History Group, which promotes established and new approaches to the study of international affairs as a discipline of history. The BIHG acts as a link to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and The National Archives on matters relating to declassification and digitisation of records. She is the programme director for the MSc in Diplomacy and International Security and teaches classes on the Cold War, European Integration, and Diplomacy. She is on Twitter @RogeliaPC
Rachel Utley
(Co-Investigator)
Rachel Utley is Associate Professor of International History in the School of History, University of Leeds, where she specialises in Cold War and post-Cold War international history; French foreign, defence and security policies; and UK-French diplomatic and military relations. Her doctorate, also from the University of Leeds, considered questions of French defence and security policies in the late twentieth century. Publications include The French Defence Debate: Consensus and Continuity in the Mitterrand Era (Palgrave Macmillan), and The Case for Coalition: Motivation and Prospects. French Military Intervention in the 1990s (SCSI). She has edited and contributed to a number of collections on contemporary international security challenges, including (ed.) Major Powers and Peacekeeping: Perspectives, Priorities and the Challenges of Military Intervention (Ashgate) and (ed.) 9/11 Ten Years After: Perspectives and Problems (Ashgate). Rachel is currently completing a book titled UK-French Relations in the Thatcher Years, 1979-83: An Entente in Good Heart? (forthcoming; Routledge).
Rachel Chin
(Post-Doctoral Research Assistant)
Rachel completed her PhD in 2017 at the University of Exeter, where her research focussed upon Franco-British imperial tensions throughout the Second World War. She is interested in exploring how and with what aims strategic rhetoric was employed by decision makers to articulate and justify Franco-British policies to both metropolitan and international audiences. Similarly, her work aims to bridge the policy-making/public opinion gap by simultaneously asking how these policies were conceptualised and debated in wider mass media sources. Rachel has published on the Franco-British clashes at Mars el-Kébir in July 1940 and the French bombardment of Damascus in May 1945. In addition to her current work on the ‘Weight of the Past’ project she is also developing a new study, which seeks to understand how episodes of 20th century French and British imperial violence were justified historically and how they have been subsequently debated through contemporary lawsuits and judicial reviews.
For any questions regarding the project, please contact Claire Flanagan (Administrative Assistant)