MARTIN
S. ALEXANDER (MA, DPhil, FRHistS)
Personal information
Place
of birth:
Hartlepool, England
Nationality:
British
Marital
status:
Married (no children)
Office address
Department
of International Politics,
University
of Wales, Aberystwyth,
Edward
Llwyd Building,
Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion
SY23 3DA
Tel.
01970 622693
Fax:
01970 622709
e-mails:
saa@aber.ac.uk
Employment
record
Present
Post
Professor
of International Relations, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Previous
Posts
Professor
of Contemporary History & Politics, University of Salford (1993-2001)
Lecturer
in French & British History, University of Southampton (1982-93)
Visiting
and external posts
Associate
Professor of Strategy & Policy, US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
(1991-92)
John
M. Olin Foundation Fellow, Yale University (1988-89)
Franco-British
Council Research Fellow, Paris (1980-82)
Books
Anglo-French
Defence Relations between the Wars, 1919-1939
(co-ed. with William J. Philpott) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
France
and the Algerian War, 1954-62. Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy
(co-ed. with J.F.V. Keiger) (London: Frank Cass, 2002)
The
Algerian War and the French Army (1954-62): Experiences, Images, Testimonies
(co-ed. with Martin Evans and J.F.V. Keiger) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
Crisis
and Renewal: France, 1918-1962
(co-ed. with Kenneth Mouré) (New York: Berghahn, 2002)
French
History since Napoleon
(ed.) (London: Edward Arnold, 1999)
Knowing
Your Friends. Intelligence inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold
War
(ed.) (London: Frank Cass, 1998)
The
Republic in Danger. General Maurice Gamelin and the politics of French defence,
1933-39
(Cambridge University Press, 1993)
The
French and Spanish Popular Fronts of 1936: Comparative Perspectives
(co-ed. with Helen Graham) (Cambridge University Press, 1989; reissued in pb.
2002)
Chapters
and articles
‘Prologue
à 1940: la stratégie de guerre Franco-Britannique à travers les conversations
d’Etats-majors de 1939’ in Christine Levisse-Touzé (ed.), La Campagne de 1940 (Paris: Editions Tallandier, 2001), pp. 38-51
‘The
History and Historiography of the Battle of France and Flanders: The French View’,
in Brian Bond and Michael Taylor (eds.), The Battle for France and Flanders. Sixty Years On (Barnsley: Leo
Cooper/Pen & Sword Books, 2001), pp. 181-205
‘Les
évaluations militaires britanniques des capacités de l’armée française en
Algérie (1955-58)’, in Jean-Charles Jauffret and Maurice Vaïsse (eds.), Militaires
et guérrilla dans la guerre d’Algérie (Brussels: Editions Complexe,
2001), pp. 49-58
‘The
Franco-German Balance of Power in the Appeasement Era: Perspectives from the
Hôtel Matignon and the French Army’, in Stephen A. Shuker (ed.), Deutschland
und Frankreich Vom Konflikt zur Aussöhnung. Die Gestaltung des west
europäischen Sicherheit 1914-1963 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000), pp.
159-68
‘Le
Général Gamelin, Chef d’état-major général de l’armée, et les
gouvernements (1935-1940)’, in Eric Duhamel, Olivier Forcade and Philippe Vial
(eds.), Militaires en République,
1870-1962. Les officiers, le pouvoir et la vie publique en France (Paris:
Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999), pp. 65-72
‘France,
the collapse of Republican Spain and the approach of general war. National
Security, war economics and the Spanish refugees, 1938-1940’, in Christian
Leitz and David J. Dunthorn (eds.), Spain
in an International Context, 1936-1959 (New York: Berghahn, 1999), pp.
105-28
‘In
defence of the Maginot Line: security policy, domestic politics and the economic
depression in France’, in Robert Boyce (ed.), French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940. The decline and fall of a
great power (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 164-94
‘”Fighting
to the Last Frenchman” ? Reflections on the BEF deployment to France and the
strains in the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939-40’, in Joel Blatt (ed.), The
French Defeat of 1940. Reassessments (New York: Berghahn, 1998), pp. 296-326
‘Duty,
Discipline and Authority: The French Officer Elites between Professionalism and
Politics, 1900-1962’, in Nicholas J. Atkin and Frank Tallett (eds.), The
Right in France, 1789-1997 (London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998), pp.
129-59
‘”No
Taste for the Fight?” French combat performance in 1940 and the politics of
the Fall of France’, in Paul Addison and Angus Calder (eds.), Time to Kill. The Soldier’s Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945
(London: Pimlico Books, 1997), pp. 161-76
‘From
Politiques en képi to Military
Technocrats: De Gaulle and the Recovery of the French Army after Indochina and
Algeria’, in George J. Andreopoulos and Harold E. Selesky (eds.), The
Aftermath of Defeat. Societies, Armed Forces and the Challenge of Recovery
(Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 79-102
‘A
bas les marchands de canons ! Efforts to control the private manufacture and
trade in arms in France during the 1930s’, in Maurice Vaïsse (ed.), Le
Pacifisme en Europe des années 1920 aux années 1950 (Brussels, Editions
Bruylant, 1993), pp. 285-300
‘In
lieu of alliance: The French general staff’s secret co-operation with neutral
Belgium, 1936-40’, Journal of Strategic
Studies 14 (4) Dec. 1991, pp. 413-27
‘Maurice
Gamelin and the defeat of France, 1939-40’, in Brian Bond (ed.), Fallen
Stars. Eleven Studies of Twentieth-Century Military Disaster (Oxford &
London: Brassey’s, 1991), pp. 107-40
‘Safes
and Houses. William C. Bullitt, Embassy security and the shortcomings of the US
foreign service in Europe before the Second World War’, Diplomacy and Statecraft 2(2) July 1991, pp. 187-210
‘Did
the 2e Bureau work ? The role of intelligence in French defence policy and
strategy, 1919-1939’, Intelligence and
National Security 6 (2) April 1991, pp. 293-333
‘The
Fall of France, 1940’, Journal of
Strategic Studies 13 (1) March 1990, pp. 10-44
‘Liddell
Hart and De Gaulle: Prophets of Limited Liability and Mobile defense’, in
Peter Paret (ed.), Makers of Modern
Strategy. From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton University Press,
1986), pp. 597-623
‘Prophet
without Honour ? The French high command and Pierre Taittinger’s report on the
Ardennes defences, March 1940’, War
& Society 4 (1) May 1986, pp. 53-77
(A)
At BA/BSc Level
·
Introduction to War,
Strategy and Intelligence
·
From Gloire to Gore:
Military History since Napoleon (1815-1918)
·
De Gaulle’s France,
1934-1970
·
The Ghosts of Napoleon:
French strategy and warfare, 1867-1962
·
The Vietnam War, 1954-75
(B)
At MSc/MA Level
·
Images and Experiences of
War: combat in film and literature, 1914-75
·
Contemporary Strategic
Problems
·
Thoughts of War:
Strategic Thinkers and Thinking since Sun Tzu
Administrative
and Managerial Experience
Head
of Department of Politics & Contemporary History, University of Salford
(1994-98)
Member
of Senate and Faculty of Arts, Media & Social Science Board, University of
Salford, 1994-99
Director
of Graduate Studies, Department of Politics & Contemporary History
University of Salford, 1998-99
Director
of External Relations & Recruitment, University of Salford, 1999-2001
Tutor
for Mature Students, Department of International Politics, UWA, Aberystwyth,
2001-02
University
of Leicester, for BA programmes in Modern History and Modern History and
Politics (1999-2002)
University
of Edinburgh, for MSc in Second World War Studies (since 2000)
Advisory
Board, Centre for Second World War Studies, University of Edinburgh
Advisory
Board, Centre for Security Studies, University of Hull
Advisory
Board, Plymouth University International Studies Centre
Affiliate,
International Security Studies Program, Yale University
Royal
Historical Society (Fellow)
Royal
United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI)
British
International Studies Association (BISA)
Society
for Military History (SMH)
British
Commission for Military History (BCMH)
Society
of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Society
for French Historical Studies (SFHS)
Society
for the Study of French History
Association
for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France (ASMCF)
Study
Group on Intelligence (SGI)
Army
Records Society
Navy
Records Society
·
Cricket (Life member,
Yorkshire CCC), football (Kidderminster Harriers FC), rugby union, golf
·
Classic Cars and their
restoration (especially Solihull-built Rovers)
·
Gerry Anderson
marionation series/merchandise (esp. Thunderbirds)
·
Big Band & Jazz music
(esp. 1940s-50s American and British swing and jazz bands
and vocalists e.g. Benny Goodman, Ray Anthony, Ted
Heath, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Keely Smith, Anita O’Day, Frank Sinatra,
Dick Haymes)
·
Bird-watching and country
walks
