20-21 PR5937: Understanding Defence
Dr
Tom Dyson joined the Department of Politics, International Relations and
Philosophy in September 2012. He was previously employed as a Lecturer
in International Relations at the School of
Politics, University of Surrey (2006-12). Between 2009-11 Dr Dyson was
an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow based at the Chair of German
and European Politics at Potsdam University and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin, Germany. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and the Social Sciences, Potsdam in 2019-20.
Dr Dyson’s research interests lie in European defence and security and British, French and German defence policy. He is especially interested in organisational learning in a military context and in the sources of military adaptation, innovation and emulation. Dr Dyson is the author of The Politics of German Defence and Security (2007), Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in post-Cold War Europe (2010), European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory (2013, with Professor Theodore Konstadinides) and Organisational Learning and the Modern Army (2019). He is also the co-editor of Precision-strike Warfare and International Intervention (2014). Dr Dyson has published articles in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations; Contemporary British History; Contemporary Security Policy; Defence Studies; European Law Review; European Security; German Politics and Security Studies.
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