UK Defence and Foreign Policy

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

UK Defence and Foreign Policy

‘UK air strikes in Syria: Time for a Decision?’, RUSI Briefing Paper, November 2015;

‘Steady as She Goes: The Outcome of the SDSR 2015’, RUSI Commentary, November 2015;

‘The ‘Missing Links’ in SDSR Financing: Organised Crime, Migration and Diplomacy’, RUSI Briefing Paper, September 2015;

‘Osborne’s Summer Surprise for Defence: Guaranteed Real-Terms Spending Increases’, RUSI Briefing Paper, August 2015;

‘A Force for Order: Strategic Underpinnings of the next NSS and SDSR’, RUSI Briefing Paper, May 2015;

‘Defence and the Election Outcome’, RUSI Commentary, May 2015;

‘Mind the Gap: The MOD’s Emerging Budgetary Challenge’, RUSI Briefing Paper, March 2015;

‘This Chastened Isle’, RUSI Newsbrief, February 2015;

‘Still Together, for Now, RUSI Journal, 159, 5, November 2014;

‘Western Operations Against ISIS: Holding Back in Syria’, RUSI Commentary, November 2014;

‘A Result that Resolves Little’, The World Today, 70, 5, October 2014;

‘Never the Same Again: What the Referendum Means for the UK and the World’, RUSI Commentary, September 2014;

‘The Financial Context for the 2015 SDSR’, RUSI Briefing Paper, September 2014;

‘Relocation, relocation, relocation’, RUSI Occasional Paper, August 2014;

‘Dissolution and Defence: Scotland’s Armed Forces after a Yes Vote, RUSI Journal, 159, 2, May 2014.

three chapters in Adrian Johnson, Warsin Peace: UK Military Operations Since 1990, RUSI Books, 2014;

‘Let Debate Commence: Key Strategic Questions for the 2015 SDSR’, RUSI Newbrief, January 2014;

‘Towards the UK's Nuclear Century’, RUSI Journal, 158, 6, December 2013;

‘Autumn Gloom: The Treasury’s Autumn Statement and the Ministry of Defence, RUSI Commentary, December 2013;

‘Parliament’s Decision on Syria: Pulling Our Punches’, RUSI Commentary, August 2013;

‘Will Scotland Sink the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent?’, Washington Quarterly, 36, 3, summer 2013 (with Professor William Walker);

‘Respite from the Storm? Defence and the 2013 Spending Review outcome’, RUSI Commentary, June 2013;

‘The Squeeze Continues - Defence and the 2013 Budget’, RUSI Commentary, March 2013;

‘Kingdom’s End?’, RUSI Journal, June/July 2012;

‘Looking into the Black Hole: Is the UK Defence Budget Crisis Really Over?, RUSI Briefing Paper, October 2011;

‘Keeping our Powder Dry? UK Defence Policy Beyond Afghanistan’, RUSI Journal, 156, 1, 2011;

‘Unbalancing the Force: Prospects for UK Defence after the SDSR’RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, November 2010;

‘Prognosis for Defence Spending after Budget 2010, RUSI Commentary, June 2010;

‘Capability Cost Trends: Implications for the Defence Review’, RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, January 2010;

‘Preparing for the lean years: how will Britain defence spending fare in an age of austerity?’, RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, July 2009;

‘The Myth of Defence Inflation’, RUSI Defence Systems, June 2009;

‘Britain's new nuclear debate’, RUSI Journal, 154, 2, April 2009;

‘A Force for Influence: Making British Defence Effective’, RUSI Journal, December 2008.

‘Looking into the Black Hole: Is the UK Defence Budget Crisis Really Over?, RUSI Briefing Paper, October 2011;

‘Keeping our Powder Dry? UK Defence Policy Beyond Afghanistan’, RUSI Journal, 156, 1, 2011;

‘Preparing for the lean years: how will Britain defence spending fare in an age of austerity?’, RUSI Future Defence Review WorkingPaper, July 2009;

‘Britain's new nuclear debate’, RUSI Journal, 154, 2, April 2009;

‘The Myth of Defence Inflation’, RUSI Defence Systems, June 2009;

‘A Force for Influence: Making British Defence Effective’, RUSI Journal, 153, 6, December 2008.

Estimated UK Employment Dependent on Ministry of Defence Expenditure and Defence Exports, (with AJW Turner and K Hartley), Defence Analytical Services Agency, Ministry of Defence, Defence Statistics Bulletin No. 5, March 2003;

‘The Economic Costs and Benefits of UK Defence Exports’, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2002, 305-342. (with Neil Davies, Keith Hartley and Chris Wilkinson);

‘UK nuclear weapons policy after the SDR’, in Centre for Defence Studies (ed), Brassey’s Defence Yearbook 1999, Brassey’s, 1999, 253-266;

Defence for the 21st Century: towards a post-Cold War force structure, Fabian Society, 1997;

‘Military spending and the British economy’, in David Coates and John Hillard (eds), UK Economic Decline: Key Texts, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1995;

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

Nuclear weapons

‘Relocation, relocation, relocation’, RUSI Occasional Paper, with Hugh Chalmers, August 2014;

‘Dissolution and Defence: Scotland’s Armed Forces after a Yes Vote, RUSI Journal, 159, 2, May 2014;

‘Towards the UK's Nuclear Century’, RUSI Journal, 158, 6, December 2013;

‘Will Scotland Sink the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent?’, Washington Quarterly, 36, 3, summer 2013 (with Professor William Walker);

‘The Future of the UK's Co-operative Nuclear Relationships’, RUSI Occasional Paper, with Hugh Chalmers, June 2013;

Less is Better: Nuclear Restraint at Low Numbers, Routledge Books, November 2012;

‘Britain's new nuclear debate’, RUSI Journal, 154, 2, April 2009;

‘Nuclear Weapons and the Prevention of Major War’ in Camille Grand (editor), Thinking About Strategy: A Tribute to Michael Quinlan, FRS Paris, 2011;

Looking Beyond the Chicago Summit: Nuclear Weapons in Europe and the Future of NATO, Carnegie / Brookings / RUSI, April 2012 (with co-authors);

Small Nuclear Forces: Five Perspectives, RUSI Whitehall Report 3-11, December 2011 (edited, and chapters 1 and 2);

‘Words That Matter? NATO Declaratory Policy and the DDPR’, in Steve Andreason and Isabelle Williams (eds), ReducingNuclear Risks in Europe: A Framework for Action, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington DC, 2011;

‘Britain's new nuclear debate’, RUSI Journal, 154, 2, April 2009;

‘UK nuclear weapons policy after the SDR’, in Centre for Defence Studies, Brassey’s Defence Yearbook 1999, Brassey’s, 1999, 253-266;

UK Defence Requirements 1990-2000, Saferworld, 1990;

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

UK Defence and Security Budgets

‘Steady as She Goes: The Outcome of the SDSR 2015’, RUSI Commentary, November 2015;

‘The ‘Missing Links’ in SDSR Financing: Organised Crime, Migration and Diplomacy’, RUSI Briefing Paper, September 2015;

‘Osborne’s Summer Surprise for Defence: Guaranteed Real-Terms Spending Increases’, RUSI Briefing Paper, August 2015;

‘Defence and the Election Outcome’, RUSI Commentary, May 2015;

‘Mind the Gap: The MOD’s Emerging Budgetary Challenge’, RUSI Briefing Paper, March 2015;

‘The Financial Context for the 2015 SDSR’, RUSI Briefing Paper, September 2014;

three chapters in Adrian Johnson, Warsin Peace: UK Military Operations Since 1990, RUSI Books, 2014;

‘Autumn Gloom: The Treasury’s Autumn Statement and the Ministry of Defence, RUSI Commentary, December 2013;

‘Respite from the Storm? Defence and the 2013 Spending Review outcome’, RUSI Commentary, June 2013;

‘The Squeeze Continues - Defence and the 2013 Budget’, RUSI Commentary, March 2013;

‘Looking into the Black Hole: Is the UK Defence Budget Crisis Really Over?, RUSI Briefing Paper, October 2011;

‘Unbalancing the Force: Prospects for UK Defence after the SDSR’RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, November 2010;

‘Prognosis for Defence Spending after Budget 2010, RUSI Commentary, June 2010;

‘Capability Cost Trends: Implications for the Defence Review’, RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, January 2010;

‘Preparing for the lean years: how will Britain defence spending fare in an age of austerity?’, RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, July 2009;

‘The Myth of Defence Inflation’, RUSI Defence Systems, June 2009;

‘Looking into the Black Hole: Is the UK Defence Budget Crisis Really Over?, RUSI Briefing Paper, October 2011;

‘Keeping our Powder Dry? UK Defence Policy Beyond Afghanistan’, RUSI Journal, 156, 1, 2011;

‘Preparing for the lean years: how will Britain defence spending fare in an age of austerity?’, RUSI Future Defence Review Working Paper, July 2009;

‘The Myth of Defence Inflation’, RUSI Defence Systems, June 2009;

Estimated UK Employment Dependent on Ministry of Defence Expenditure and Defence Exports, (with AJW Turner and K Hartley), Defence Analytical Services Agency, Ministry of Defence, Defence Statistics Bulletin No. 5, March 2003;

‘The Economic Costs and Benefits of UK Defence Exports’, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2002, 305-342. (with Neil Davies, Keith Hartley and Chris Wilkinson);

‘Military spending and the British economy’, in David Coates and John Hillard (eds), UK Economic Decline: Key Texts, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1995;

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

Scotland

‘This Chastened Isle’, RUSI Newsbrief, February 2015;

‘Still Together, for Now’, RUSI Journal, 159, 5, November 2014;

‘A Result that Resolves Little’, The World Today, 70, 5, October 2014;

‘Never the Same Again: What the Referendum Means for the UK and the World’, RUSI Commentary, September 2014;

‘Relocation, relocation, relocation’, RUSI Occasional Paper, August 2014;

‘Dissolution and Defence: Scotland’s Armed Forces after a Yes Vote, RUSI Journal, 159, 2, May 2014.

‘Will Scotland Sink the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent?’, Washington Quarterly, 36, 3, summer 2013 (with Professor William Walker);

‘Kingdom’s End?’, RUSI Journal, 157, 3, June/July 2012;

‘The United Kingdom, Nuclear Weapons and the Scottish Question’ The Non-Proliferation Review, 9, 1, Spring 2002, 1-15. (with William Walker);

Uncharted Waters: The UK, Nuclear Weapons and the Scottish Question, Tuckwell Press, 2001. with William Walker;

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

European security

‘Is NATO deterrence fit for purpose’, Newsbrief, RUSI, November 2015.

Rescuing the State: Europe's Next Challenge (editor), Foreign Policy Centre / British Council / European Commission, March 2005;

'The Atlantic burden-sharing debate - widening or fragmenting?', International Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 569-586;

Sharing security: the political economy of burdensharing, Macmillan, 2000;

Kosovo: the crisis and beyond, Saferworld, 1999;

‘Conceptualising arms control after the Cold War’, in Michael Clarke (ed), Brassey’sDefence Yearbook 1997, Centre for Defence Studies / Brassey’s, 1997, 273-288;

‘Sharing the burden of European defence’ in Jane Sharp (ed), About Turn: Forward March with Europe, IPPR / River Oram Press, 1996, 107-122;

‘Expanding Europe's security community’, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, 3, 2, 1993, 111-130;

‘Developing a security regime for Eastern Europe’, Journal of Peace Research, 30, 4, 1993, 427-444;

‘Security Burdensharing and the Transatlantic Relationship’, Paradigms, 7, 2, 1993, 22-32;

‘Britain and alliance burden-sharing’, in Michael Clarke and Philip Sabin (eds), British defence choices in the twenty-first century, Brassey’s, 1993, 102-129;

Biting the Bullet: Britain's European defence option, Institute for Public Policy Research, 1992;

‘Reciprocal Disarmament: A Game Proposal’, Naval War College Review, 44, 3, 1991, 58-74;

‘Beyond the Alliance System’, World Policy Journal, 7, 2, 1990, 215-250;

‘Soviet weapons procurement in the 1980's’ Defense Analysis, 6, 3, 1990, 255-262;

‘Beyond cfe: Cutting Conventional Procurement’, Arms Control Today, 1990, 13-17;

‘An unstable triumvirate? European security structures after the Cold War’, Current Research on Peace and Violence, 13, 3, 1990, 175-195;

‘The Tank Gap Data Flap’, International Security, 13, 4, 1989, 187-194 (with Lutz Unterseher);

‘Is there a tank gap?’ International Security, 13, 1, 1988, 5-49 (with Lutz Unterseher).

Professor Malcolm Chalmers

Publications as of December 2015

Security and Development

Global Inequality and Security Policy: A British Perspective, Routledge Books, May 2008.

Spending to Save: the cost-effectiveness of conflict prevention’, Defense and Peace Economics, 18, 1, February 2007, pp. 1-24;

Evaluation of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Synthesis Report (co-author), Evaluation Report, Cabinet Office / DFID / FCO / MoD / HMT, March 2004;

Security Sector Reform in Southern Africa (editor), International Institute for Strategic Studies, November 2003;

‘The debate on a regional arms register in South-East Asia’, The Pacific Review, 10, 1, 1997, 104-123;

‘ASEAN and Confidence-Building: Continuity and Change after the Cold War’, Contemporary Security Policy, 18, 1, 1997, 36-56;

‘Openness and Security Policy in South-East Asia’, Survival, 38, 3, 1996, 82-98;

Confidence-building in South-East Asia, Westview Press, 1996. 279 pages;

Taking Stock: the UN Register After Two Years, Westview Press, 1995 (with Owen Greene). 288 pages;

Developing the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, Westview Press, 1994 (co-authored);

‘The Development of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms: Prospects and Proposals’, The Non-Proliferation Review, 1, 3, 1994, 1-17 (with Owen Greene);

‘The UN Arms Register: An Emerging Global Transparency Regime?’, Contemporary Security Policy, 15, 3, 1994, 58-83 (with Owen Greene);

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