Andrew Rathmell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Rathmell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Rathmell |
| SIGNATURE | RATHMELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Dragons and the Snakes
David Kilcullen Hurst, 2020 David Kilcullen made his name as a military practitioner-scholar in the mid-2000s by combining experience from the field, conceptual insights and a flair for communicati...
The Taliban at war
The Taliban at war: 2001–2018 The Taliban at war: 2001–2018. By Antonio Giustozzi. London: Hurst. 2019. 336pp. £41.99. Isbn978 1 78738 132 2. Available as e-book. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell University of Exeter, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 841–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa076 Published: 01 May 2020 Article history Accepted: 22 Ap…
Before military intervention
The British Army's Specialised Infantry Group is billed by the Ministry of Defence as a ‘game-changing new capability for the Army’. While some cynics see the Specialised Infantry Battalions (SIBs) as a ploy to maintain the numbers of battalions in an understaffed army, in fact the SIBs, and the model of Regionally Aligned Brigades that are being implemented as part of Army 2020, are a major effort by the UK to upgrade its ability to deliver defe…
Allocating blame
A number of books by former Coalition officials are now emerging that provide detailed insights into aspects of US and UK policy-making before and during the occupation of Iraq. Two of these books lay the blame for the failure to stabilize rapidly the country and to ensure a peaceful process of political transition squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration, the Department of Defense and the Coalition Provisional Authority. Many of the …
Three Years After
The RAND Corporation held a conference three years after 9/11 to share results from recent terrorism studies with government and military officials, congressional staff, foundations, NGOs, foreign embassy representatives, and the public. Participants discuss understanding the nature of the terrorist threat; taking direct action against terrorists and terrorist organizations; seeking to reduce support for terrorists; and protecting the homeland.
Planning post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq
Efforts to improve national and international capabilities to plan and manage post-conflict reconstruction operations are underway in many countries and are high on the agenda of several multilateral institutions. The international community has learned lessons from the numerous post-conflict reconstruction and nation-building operations that it has engaged in since the end of the Cold War but Iraq represented the most difficult and ambitious ope…
America's Role in Nation-Building
In Iraq, the United States is facing its most challenging nation-building project since the 1940s. The authors draw lessons from seven case studies — Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan — then apply these to the Iraq case. The results suggest that nation-building will be difficult but possible. Success will, however, require investing sufficient financial, military, and political resources — and time.
Controlling Computer Network Operations
The development of Information Operations and, more particularly, Computer Network Operations (CNO), has been paralleled by calls to control both the military and the criminal/terrorist use of these capabilities. The need for multilateral action to control criminal and terrorist activity is acknowledged and is being pursued through mechanisms such as the Council of Europe. Efforts to control military use of CNO through arms control or multilatera…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Building Confidence in the Middle East
Building Confidence in the Middle East
As the Levant and the Gulf enter an era in which interstate tensions are beginning to ease, increasing attention is being paid to the role that confidence-building measures (CBMs) can play in creating new security structures in the region. CBMs depend upon open exchanges of information and mutually acceptable mechanisms for monitoring agreements. This article examines the ways in which the ongoing in- formation revolution could ease the way towar…
Political reform in the Gulf
There appears to be a conventional wisdom among students of the Gulf that a combination of economic and social developments is stimulating far reaching change in the political structures of the Gulf oil states. The end of the oil boom, the need to integrate into the globalized economy, along with the pressures of globalized culture, are interacting with rapid demographic change to undermine the established rentier state bargain of 'no taxation an…
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BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
Information warfare and sub‐state actors
Information Warfare is perceived as an increasing threat by armed forces, governments and corporations alike. There is a perception that sub‐state groups pose a particular problem because they may find it easier than states to exploit Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to leverage limited resources into disproportionate political, economic or military gains. Since the mid‐1990s, therefore, Western governments have framed their Info…
Privatising Intelligence
During the Cold War Western intelligence agencies were focused on a well‐defined threat the Warsaw Pact. Their methods and sources were designed and exploited accordingly. In the post‐Cold War world, these agencies have been quick to justify and perpetuate their existence by identifying new threats to national security ‐terrorism, drug trafficking, information warfare, for example. However, they have been less willing to change their techniques a…
Tanker wars
Journal Article Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988 Get access Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988. By Martin S. Naviasand E. R. Hooton. London: Tauris. 1996. 244pp. Index. £75.00. ISBN 1 86064 032 x. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Iran and the Gulf
Journal Article Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability Get access Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability. Edited by Jamal S. al-Suwaidi. Tauris: London. 1996. 425pp. Index. £39.50. ISBN 1 86064 143 1. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 390–391, https://doi.org/10…
Gulf energy and the world
Journal Article Gulf energy and the world: challenges and threats Get access Gulf energy and the world: challenges and threats. Bythe Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research. London: British Academic Press. 1997. 183pp. Index. £35.00 ; ISBN 1 86064 210 1. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume …
The Changing Military Balance in the Gulf
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HADITH. By John Burton. (Islamic Surveys.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. 210 pp. £39.95 (hb); £16.95 (pb). POLITICS, GENDER, AND THE ISLAMIC PAST: THE LEGACY OF ‘A'ISHA BINT ABI BAKR. By D. A. Spellberg. New York, Columbia University Press, 1995. 250 pp. $35.00. MEDIEVAL ISMA'ILI HISTORY AND THOUGHT. Edited by Farhad Daftary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 331 pp. £40.00 THE THRONE CARRIER OF GO…
Syria and Iran
Journal Article Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation Get access Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation. By Hussein J. Aghaand Ahmad S. Khalidi. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1995. 126pp. £22.50; ISBN 1 85567 234 0. Pb.: £9.99; ISBN 1 85567 235 9. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs,…
Oman and the world
Journal Article Oman and the world: the emergence of an independent foreign policy Get access Oman and the world: the emergence of an independent foreign policy. By Joseph A. Kechichian. Santa Monica: RAND. 1995. 409pp. Index. Pb.: $30.00. ISBN 0 8330 2332 2. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72,…
An Arabian affair
Journal Article An Arabian affair: politics and diplomacy behind the Gulf War Get access An Arabian affair: politics and diplomacy behind the Gulf War. By Alan Munro. London: Brassey's. 1996. 426pp. Index. £29.95.ISBN 1 857 53148 5. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages…
Secret War in the Middle East
Introduction: conspiracies, covert action and terrorism Syria - covert battleground victim and perpetrator. Syria in its environment: history domestic politics Syria's geopolitical position summary. Coups and covert action, 1949: prologue Za'im's coup the Sa'adah affair Hinnawi's coup Shishakli makes his move. The Shishakli era, 1949-54: 'Azm's government Transjordanian plotting, Sa'udi and Egyptian terrorism the Middle East command and Shishakli…
Secret War in the Middle East
Introduction: conspiracies, covert action and terrorism Syria - covert battleground victim and perpetrator. Syria in its environment: history domestic politics Syria's geopolitical position summary. Coups and covert action, 1949: prologue Za'im's coup the Sa'adah affair Hinnawi's coup Shishakli makes his move. The Shishakli era, 1949-54: 'Azm's government Transjordanian plotting, Sa'udi and Egyptian terrorism the Middle East command and Shishakli…
Planning post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq
Efforts to improve national and international capabilities to plan and manage post-conflict reconstruction operations are underway in many countries and are high on the agenda of several multilateral institutions. The international community has learned lessons from the numerous post-conflict reconstruction and nation-building operations that it has engaged in since the end of the Cold War but Iraq represented the most difficult and ambitious ope…
Political reform in the Gulf
There appears to be a conventional wisdom among students of the Gulf that a combination of economic and social developments is stimulating far reaching change in the political structures of the Gulf oil states. The end of the oil boom, the need to integrate into the globalized economy, along with the pressures of globalized culture, are interacting with rapid demographic change to undermine the established rentier state bargain of 'no taxation an…
Iran and the Gulf
Journal Article Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability Get access Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability. Edited by Jamal S. al-Suwaidi. Tauris: London. 1996. 425pp. Index. £39.50. ISBN 1 86064 143 1. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 390–391, https://doi.org/10…
Syria and Iran
Journal Article Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation Get access Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation. By Hussein J. Aghaand Ahmad S. Khalidi. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1995. 126pp. £22.50; ISBN 1 85567 234 0. Pb.: £9.99; ISBN 1 85567 235 9. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs,…
Controlling Computer Network Operations
The development of Information Operations and, more particularly, Computer Network Operations (CNO), has been paralleled by calls to control both the military and the criminal/terrorist use of these capabilities. The need for multilateral action to control criminal and terrorist activity is acknowledged and is being pursued through mechanisms such as the Council of Europe. Efforts to control military use of CNO through arms control or multilatera…
Before military intervention
The British Army's Specialised Infantry Group is billed by the Ministry of Defence as a ‘game-changing new capability for the Army’. While some cynics see the Specialised Infantry Battalions (SIBs) as a ploy to maintain the numbers of battalions in an understaffed army, in fact the SIBs, and the model of Regionally Aligned Brigades that are being implemented as part of Army 2020, are a major effort by the UK to upgrade its ability to deliver defe…
Building Confidence in the Middle East
As the Levant and the Gulf enter an era in which interstate tensions are beginning to ease, increasing attention is being paid to the role that confidence-building measures (CBMs) can play in creating new security structures in the region. CBMs depend upon open exchanges of information and mutually acceptable mechanisms for monitoring agreements. This article examines the ways in which the ongoing in- formation revolution could ease the way towar…
Privatising Intelligence
During the Cold War Western intelligence agencies were focused on a well‐defined threat the Warsaw Pact. Their methods and sources were designed and exploited accordingly. In the post‐Cold War world, these agencies have been quick to justify and perpetuate their existence by identifying new threats to national security ‐terrorism, drug trafficking, information warfare, for example. However, they have been less willing to change their techniques a…
Tanker wars
Journal Article Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988 Get access Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988. By Martin S. Naviasand E. R. Hooton. London: Tauris. 1996. 244pp. Index. £75.00. ISBN 1 86064 032 x. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
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BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS. By WALTER E. KAEGI. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 313pp. 5 maps, 2 pp. of plates. £45.00 (hb). STUDIES IN EARLY MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE. By NORMAN CALDER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv, 257pp. £35.00. GOLDEN ROADS: MIGRATION, PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL IN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM. Edited by IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond (Surrey), Curzon Press, 1993. xvii, 193pp. £35 (hb), £16.99 (pb). …
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200. APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp. A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibli…
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HADITH. By John Burton. (Islamic Surveys.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. 210 pp. £39.95 (hb); £16.95 (pb). POLITICS, GENDER, AND THE ISLAMIC PAST: THE LEGACY OF ‘A'ISHA BINT ABI BAKR. By D. A. Spellberg. New York, Columbia University Press, 1995. 250 pp. $35.00. MEDIEVAL ISMA'ILI HISTORY AND THOUGHT. Edited by Farhad Daftary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 331 pp. £40.00 THE THRONE CARRIER OF GO…
Syria and Iran
Journal Article Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation Get access Syria and Iran: rivalry and cooperation. By Hussein J. Aghaand Ahmad S. Khalidi. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1995. 126pp. £22.50; ISBN 1 85567 234 0. Pb.: £9.99; ISBN 1 85567 235 9. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs,…
Oman and the world
Journal Article Oman and the world: the emergence of an independent foreign policy Get access Oman and the world: the emergence of an independent foreign policy. By Joseph A. Kechichian. Santa Monica: RAND. 1995. 409pp. Index. Pb.: $30.00. ISBN 0 8330 2332 2. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72,…
An Arabian affair
Journal Article An Arabian affair: politics and diplomacy behind the Gulf War Get access An Arabian affair: politics and diplomacy behind the Gulf War. By Alan Munro. London: Brassey's. 1996. 426pp. Index. £29.95.ISBN 1 857 53148 5. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages…
Secret War in the Middle East
Introduction: conspiracies, covert action and terrorism Syria - covert battleground victim and perpetrator. Syria in its environment: history domestic politics Syria's geopolitical position summary. Coups and covert action, 1949: prologue Za'im's coup the Sa'adah affair Hinnawi's coup Shishakli makes his move. The Shishakli era, 1949-54: 'Azm's government Transjordanian plotting, Sa'udi and Egyptian terrorism the Middle East command and Shishakli…
Tanker wars
Journal Article Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988 Get access Tanker wars: the assault on merchant shipping during the Iran-Iraq crisis, 1980–1988. By Martin S. Naviasand E. R. Hooton. London: Tauris. 1996. 244pp. Index. £75.00. ISBN 1 86064 032 x. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Iran and the Gulf
Journal Article Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability Get access Iran and the Gulf: a search for stability. Edited by Jamal S. al-Suwaidi. Tauris: London. 1996. 425pp. Index. £39.50. ISBN 1 86064 143 1. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 390–391, https://doi.org/10…
Gulf energy and the world
Journal Article Gulf energy and the world: challenges and threats Get access Gulf energy and the world: challenges and threats. Bythe Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research. London: British Academic Press. 1997. 183pp. Index. £35.00 ; ISBN 1 86064 210 1. Andrew Rathmell Andrew Rathmell 1Department of War Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume …
The Changing Military Balance in the Gulf
Information warfare and sub‐state actors
Information Warfare is perceived as an increasing threat by armed forces, governments and corporations alike. There is a perception that sub‐state groups pose a particular problem because they may find it easier than states to exploit Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to leverage limited resources into disproportionate political, economic or military gains. Since the mid‐1990s, therefore, Western governments have framed their Info…
Privatising Intelligence
During the Cold War Western intelligence agencies were focused on a well‐defined threat the Warsaw Pact. Their methods and sources were designed and exploited accordingly. In the post‐Cold War world, these agencies have been quick to justify and perpetuate their existence by identifying new threats to national security ‐terrorism, drug trafficking, information warfare, for example. However, they have been less willing to change their techniques a…
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BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Building Confidence in the Middle East
Building Confidence in the Middle East
As the Levant and the Gulf enter an era in which interstate tensions are beginning to ease, increasing attention is being paid to the role that confidence-building measures (CBMs) can play in creating new security structures in the region. CBMs depend upon open exchanges of information and mutually acceptable mechanisms for monitoring agreements. This article examines the ways in which the ongoing in- formation revolution could ease the way towar…
Political reform in the Gulf
There appears to be a conventional wisdom among students of the Gulf that a combination of economic and social developments is stimulating far reaching change in the political structures of the Gulf oil states. The end of the oil boom, the need to integrate into the globalized economy, along with the pressures of globalized culture, are interacting with rapid demographic change to undermine the established rentier state bargain of 'no taxation an…
America's Role in Nation-Building
In Iraq, the United States is facing its most challenging nation-building project since the 1940s. The authors draw lessons from seven case studies — Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan — then apply these to the Iraq case. The results suggest that nation-building will be difficult but possible. Success will, however, require investing sufficient financial, military, and political resources — and time.
Controlling Computer Network Operations
The development of Information Operations and, more particularly, Computer Network Operations (CNO), has been paralleled by calls to control both the military and the criminal/terrorist use of these capabilities. The need for multilateral action to control criminal and terrorist activity is acknowledged and is being pursued through mechanisms such as the Council of Europe. Efforts to control military use of CNO through arms control or multilatera…
Three Years After
The RAND Corporation held a conference three years after 9/11 to share results from recent terrorism studies with government and military officials, congressional staff, foundations, NGOs, foreign embassy representatives, and the public. Participants discuss understanding the nature of the terrorist threat; taking direct action against terrorists and terrorist organizations; seeking to reduce support for terrorists; and protecting the homeland.
Planning post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq
Efforts to improve national and international capabilities to plan and manage post-conflict reconstruction operations are underway in many countries and are high on the agenda of several multilateral institutions. The international community has learned lessons from the numerous post-conflict reconstruction and nation-building operations that it has engaged in since the end of the Cold War but Iraq represented the most difficult and ambitious ope…
Allocating blame
A number of books by former Coalition officials are now emerging that provide detailed insights into aspects of US and UK policy-making before and during the occupation of Iraq. Two of these books lay the blame for the failure to stabilize rapidly the country and to ensure a peaceful process of political transition squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration, the Department of Defense and the Coalition Provisional Authority. Many of the …
The Dragons and the Snakes
David Kilcullen Hurst, 2020 David Kilcullen made his name as a military practitioner-scholar in the mid-2000s by combining experience from the field, conceptual insights and a flair for communicati...
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