Robert Dover
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Dover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Dover |
| SIGNATURE | DOVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2780-9729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Crown, cloak and dagger: The British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
Adding value to the intelligence community: What role for expert external advice
Reviews of intelligence failures have recommended greater use of external expertise in challenging intelligence community assessments. External contributions were expected to augment covert collection and to provide open-source challenge to analysts, rather than to directly contribute to decision support. The structural limitations of the scope and machinery of intelligence have limited the value agencies can extract from external experts. Creati…
Cryptography and the Global South: Secrecy, signals and information imperialism
For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of colonialism by other means. Recent revelations about the nature of technical surveillance and signals intelligence during this period paint an even m…
Professor Robert VH Dover
As the Editors’ Note to this inaugural 2019 issue has noted, the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC approaches this new year with optimism. However, as 2018 came to a close, RISC suffered an immeasurable loss, which we wish to acknowledge here. Professor Robert VH Dover of the Instituto de Estudios Regionales (INER) at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, passed away in December, l…
Impactful scholarship in intelligence: A public policy challenge
This paper primarily concerns the potential impact academia can have on the government’s analytical functions and the necessary conditions and hindrances in making such an impact. In doing so, it addresses several important agendas for researchers engaged in the arts, humanities and social sciences aiming to generate ‘research impact’ and policy relevance. Narrowly, this research evaluates the generation of impact with the UK’s government’s centr…
Homes for heroes? Assessing the impact of the UK’s Military Covenant
The British Military Covenant can be located in and from many sources and from 2011 onwards in primary legislation. This article argues that the provision of military housing amounts to an early test of how the military covenant is understood and used by those involved in defence policy, and those in the armed forces affected by it. It finds that housing was a prominent feature of how service personnel understood how they were valued, but was not…
Security in Cyberspace: Targeting Nations, Infrastructures, Individuals
The end of intelligence: Espionage and state power in the information age. By David Tucker
The end of intelligence: espionage and state power in the information age. By David Tucker. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2014. 241pp. £65.00. ISBN 978 0 80479 042 0. David Tucker who, according to the biography supplied in the book, has insider knowledge and experience of the US intelligence community, has set out to explore the impact of the information revolution on state power. In particular, he is interested in the extent to which the…
National intelligence and science: Beyond the great divide in analysis and policy. By Wilhelm Agrell and Gregory F. Treverton
It is a truism of the contemporary era (and indeed probably all eras) that the world is an increasingly dangerous and complicated place. The role of intelligence within that complex and dangerous arena has hitherto mostly centred on the collection, analysis and dissemination of secret information to assist in the mitigation of threats. This book rightly acknowledges that there is a chasm between the reality and what western publics expect of inte…
The Politics of the Strategic Defence and Security Review: Centralisation and Cuts
This article examines the politics of the October 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), focussing on the points of difference between the main political parties (and within the Cameron coalition government) and the political dynamics of the review process. In examining how the government's core mission to reduce the country's ‘historic deficit’ impacted on the review process and outcomes, we are also able to highlight the practical r…
Lost Over Libya: The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review – An Obituary
Immediately after the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat\ncoalition government following the May 2010 general election, the conduct\nof a Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), in line with\nelection manifesto pledges, was announced. This SDSR was published\njust prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010. It\nwas intended to be a fundamental review of Britain’s defence and security\nposture, based on the strate…
Inside British Intelligence: 100 Years of MI5 and MI6
Gordon Thomas, (London: JR Books 2009) Pp. 430. £20.00. ISBN: 978-1-906-77910-8 This has been a difficult review to write. I see my job as reviewer to provide a synopsis of the text and a value jud
J. Richelson, Defusing Armageddon: Inside Nest, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
Towards a Common EU Immigration Policy: A Securitization Too Far
This article examines the EU’s immigration policy as it has developed towards Sub‐Saharan Africa. It argues that the securitization of this policy is counterproductive in two important ways. First, the erection of further barriers to economic migration from the south and the extra‐territorialization of this problem merely increase the transaction costs and physical dangers faced by an important source of cheap labour. Secondly, in seeking to keep…
Europeanization of British Defence Policy
For Queen and Company: The Role of Intelligence in the UK's Arms Trade
This article analyses the role that the UK intelligence services (particularly Secret Intelligence Service [SIS or MI6], the Defence Intelligence Staff [DIS], Government Communication Headquarters [GCHQ] and associated agencies) play in the legal UK arms trade. The article shows that intelligence has been used in support of British-based private commercial businesses, and occasionally in providing intelligence on the negotiating positions of riva…
A Silent Debate: The Role of Intelligence in the UK Arms Trade
Information on the role of intelligence and the intelligence services in the United Kingdom's (UK) arms exports policy and arms exports in general has been largely unavailable. Amid the extensive a
The Prime Minister and the Core Executive: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Reading of UK Defence Policy Formulation 1997–2000
This article explores the domestic formulation of UK European defence policy 1997–2000 through the intergovernmental meetings at Pörtschach and Saint Malo which set in train the development and codification of a common European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 2000, through a Liberal Intergovernmentalist (LI) framework. This research leads to five conclusions: first, that the Saint Malo initiative was a tactical shift of government policies …
Towards a Common EU Immigration Policy: A Securitization Too Far
This article examines the EU’s immigration policy as it has developed towards Sub‐Saharan Africa. It argues that the securitization of this policy is counterproductive in two important ways. First, the erection of further barriers to economic migration from the south and the extra‐territorialization of this problem merely increase the transaction costs and physical dangers faced by an important source of cheap labour. Secondly, in seeking to keep…
For Queen and Company: The Role of Intelligence in the UK's Arms Trade
This article analyses the role that the UK intelligence services (particularly Secret Intelligence Service [SIS or MI6], the Defence Intelligence Staff [DIS], Government Communication Headquarters [GCHQ] and associated agencies) play in the legal UK arms trade. The article shows that intelligence has been used in support of British-based private commercial businesses, and occasionally in providing intelligence on the negotiating positions of riva…
The Politics of the Strategic Defence and Security Review: Centralisation and Cuts
This article examines the politics of the October 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), focussing on the points of difference between the main political parties (and within the Cameron coalition government) and the political dynamics of the review process. In examining how the government's core mission to reduce the country's ‘historic deficit’ impacted on the review process and outcomes, we are also able to highlight the practical r…
Lost Over Libya: The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review – An Obituary
Immediately after the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat\ncoalition government following the May 2010 general election, the conduct\nof a Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), in line with\nelection manifesto pledges, was announced. This SDSR was published\njust prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010. It\nwas intended to be a fundamental review of Britain’s defence and security\nposture, based on the strate…
Homes for heroes? Assessing the impact of the UK’s Military Covenant
The British Military Covenant can be located in and from many sources and from 2011 onwards in primary legislation. This article argues that the provision of military housing amounts to an early test of how the military covenant is understood and used by those involved in defence policy, and those in the armed forces affected by it. It finds that housing was a prominent feature of how service personnel understood how they were valued, but was not…
The Prime Minister and the Core Executive: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Reading of UK Defence Policy Formulation 1997–2000
This article explores the domestic formulation of UK European defence policy 1997–2000 through the intergovernmental meetings at Pörtschach and Saint Malo which set in train the development and codification of a common European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 2000, through a Liberal Intergovernmentalist (LI) framework. This research leads to five conclusions: first, that the Saint Malo initiative was a tactical shift of government policies …
The Prime Minister and the Core Executive: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Reading of UK Defence Policy Formulation 1997–2000
This article explores the domestic formulation of UK European defence policy 1997–2000 through the intergovernmental meetings at Pörtschach and Saint Malo which set in train the development and codification of a common European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 2000, through a Liberal Intergovernmentalist (LI) framework. This research leads to five conclusions: first, that the Saint Malo initiative was a tactical shift of government policies …
A Silent Debate: The Role of Intelligence in the UK Arms Trade
Information on the role of intelligence and the intelligence services in the United Kingdom's (UK) arms exports policy and arms exports in general has been largely unavailable. Amid the extensive a
Europeanization of British Defence Policy
For Queen and Company: The Role of Intelligence in the UK's Arms Trade
This article analyses the role that the UK intelligence services (particularly Secret Intelligence Service [SIS or MI6], the Defence Intelligence Staff [DIS], Government Communication Headquarters [GCHQ] and associated agencies) play in the legal UK arms trade. The article shows that intelligence has been used in support of British-based private commercial businesses, and occasionally in providing intelligence on the negotiating positions of riva…
Towards a Common EU Immigration Policy: A Securitization Too Far
This article examines the EU’s immigration policy as it has developed towards Sub‐Saharan Africa. It argues that the securitization of this policy is counterproductive in two important ways. First, the erection of further barriers to economic migration from the south and the extra‐territorialization of this problem merely increase the transaction costs and physical dangers faced by an important source of cheap labour. Secondly, in seeking to keep…
J. Richelson, Defusing Armageddon: Inside Nest, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
Lost Over Libya: The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review – An Obituary
Immediately after the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat\ncoalition government following the May 2010 general election, the conduct\nof a Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), in line with\nelection manifesto pledges, was announced. This SDSR was published\njust prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010. It\nwas intended to be a fundamental review of Britain’s defence and security\nposture, based on the strate…
Inside British Intelligence: 100 Years of MI5 and MI6
Gordon Thomas, (London: JR Books 2009) Pp. 430. £20.00. ISBN: 978-1-906-77910-8 This has been a difficult review to write. I see my job as reviewer to provide a synopsis of the text and a value jud
The Politics of the Strategic Defence and Security Review: Centralisation and Cuts
This article examines the politics of the October 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), focussing on the points of difference between the main political parties (and within the Cameron coalition government) and the political dynamics of the review process. In examining how the government's core mission to reduce the country's ‘historic deficit’ impacted on the review process and outcomes, we are also able to highlight the practical r…
Security in Cyberspace: Targeting Nations, Infrastructures, Individuals
The end of intelligence: Espionage and state power in the information age. By David Tucker
The end of intelligence: espionage and state power in the information age. By David Tucker. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2014. 241pp. £65.00. ISBN 978 0 80479 042 0. David Tucker who, according to the biography supplied in the book, has insider knowledge and experience of the US intelligence community, has set out to explore the impact of the information revolution on state power. In particular, he is interested in the extent to which the…
National intelligence and science: Beyond the great divide in analysis and policy. By Wilhelm Agrell and Gregory F. Treverton
It is a truism of the contemporary era (and indeed probably all eras) that the world is an increasingly dangerous and complicated place. The role of intelligence within that complex and dangerous arena has hitherto mostly centred on the collection, analysis and dissemination of secret information to assist in the mitigation of threats. This book rightly acknowledges that there is a chasm between the reality and what western publics expect of inte…
Homes for heroes? Assessing the impact of the UK’s Military Covenant
The British Military Covenant can be located in and from many sources and from 2011 onwards in primary legislation. This article argues that the provision of military housing amounts to an early test of how the military covenant is understood and used by those involved in defence policy, and those in the armed forces affected by it. It finds that housing was a prominent feature of how service personnel understood how they were valued, but was not…
Impactful scholarship in intelligence: A public policy challenge
This paper primarily concerns the potential impact academia can have on the government’s analytical functions and the necessary conditions and hindrances in making such an impact. In doing so, it addresses several important agendas for researchers engaged in the arts, humanities and social sciences aiming to generate ‘research impact’ and policy relevance. Narrowly, this research evaluates the generation of impact with the UK’s government’s centr…
Professor Robert VH Dover
As the Editors’ Note to this inaugural 2019 issue has noted, the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC approaches this new year with optimism. However, as 2018 came to a close, RISC suffered an immeasurable loss, which we wish to acknowledge here. Professor Robert VH Dover of the Instituto de Estudios Regionales (INER) at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, passed away in December, l…
Adding value to the intelligence community: What role for expert external advice
Reviews of intelligence failures have recommended greater use of external expertise in challenging intelligence community assessments. External contributions were expected to augment covert collection and to provide open-source challenge to analysts, rather than to directly contribute to decision support. The structural limitations of the scope and machinery of intelligence have limited the value agencies can extract from external experts. Creati…
Cryptography and the Global South: Secrecy, signals and information imperialism
For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of colonialism by other means. Recent revelations about the nature of technical surveillance and signals intelligence during this period paint an even m…
Crown, cloak and dagger: The British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (9 works) · Government (linguistics (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Computer security (5 works)