Dr Daniel Larsen

Lecturer in Intelligence and War Studies (History)

Biography

I am a historian of American and British foreign policy and intelligence in the first half of the twentieth century, including an interest in its political, economic, and legal dimensions, most especially in wartime.

I have focussed especially on Anglo-American relations and British war policy in the First World War era, with an emphasis on the role of British intelligence. My first book, Plotting for Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2021), re-examines American peace diplomacy and the British diplomatic and political response to it during 1914 to 1917, alongside an exploration of the Anglo-American economic relationship. I am especially interested in the role of codebreaking and economics in shaping foreign policy, cultures of secrecy in government, the history of ideas concerning the conduct of foreign policy, and the processes associated with the ends of wars.

I previously held fixed-term University Assistant Professorships at the Cambridge Department of Politics and International Studies, as well as a fixed-term College Lectureship and a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. My MPhil and PhD degrees are from Christ's College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Christopher Andrew, and I completed my BA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2021

Larsen, D. (2021) Before "National Security": The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Concept of "National Defense". Harvard National Security Journal, 12, pp. 329-372.

Larsen, D. (2021) Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781108486682 (doi: 10.1017/9781108761833)

2020

Larsen, D. (2020) Creating an American culture of secrecy: cryptography in Wilson-era diplomacy. Diplomatic History, 44(1), pp. 102-132. (doi: 10.1093/dh/dhz046)

2018

Larsen, D. (2018) British signals intelligence and the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Intelligence and National Security, (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2017.1323475)

2017

Larsen, D. (2017) British codebreaking and American diplomatic telegrams, 1914–1915. Intelligence and National Security, 32(2), pp. 256-263. (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2016.1253174)

2014

Larsen, D. (2014) Intelligence in the First World War: the state of the field. Intelligence and National Security, 29(2), pp. 282-302. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2012.727070)

2013

Larsen, D. (2013) Abandoning democracy: Woodrow Wilson and promoting German Democracy, 1918-1919. Diplomatic History, 37(3), pp. 476-508. (doi: 10.1093/dh/dht016) (Accepted for Publication)

2012

Larsen, D. (2012) War pessimism in Britain and an American peace in early 1916. International History Review, 34(4), pp. 795-817. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2012.702675)

2010

Larsen, D. (2010) British intelligence and the 1916 mediation mission of Colonel Edward M. House. Intelligence and National Security, 25(5), pp. 682-704. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2010.537123)

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