Rob Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8969-0033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Competing societal objectives in epidemic mitigation: A modeling study of Covid-19 in the Philippines
School closures and suspension of non-essential economic activities are highly effective respiratory-pandemic mitigation strategies because they effectively interrupt disease transmission. However, they come with high societal costs. Most of these costs are borne by workers who lose their income, especially those who are not supported by welfare benefits, and students whose future income depends on their education. In countries where many househo…
Dysfunctional Warfare: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was based on false premises, faulty assumptions, and a weak strategy. The conduct of operations has also been a failure: a coup de main that miscarried, poor air-land cooperation, inadequate tactical communications, substandard battle discipline, low morale, and vulnerable and weak logistics. As the conflict has unfolded, heavy losses have imposed a strain on available Russian manpower. The Russian army reached a culm…
Dysfunctional Warfare: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was based on false premises, faulty assumptions, and a weak strategy. As the conflict has unfolded, heavy losses have imposed a strain on available Russian manpower. The Russian army reached a culminating point outside Kyiv and has exhibited little sign of operational learning. By contrast, Ukrainians have fought an existential war, making good use of dispersed light infantry tactics with high motivation levels. Weste…
Egypt and the Sudan, 1881–1885
The first part of the chapter analyses the disparity of the forces involved and Wolseley’s calculations once the intervention in Egypt had begun. It traces the manoeuvres of the belligerents, concluding with the Battle of Tel el-Kebir. The relative importance of British and Egyptian technology, cohesion, and command coherence is assessed. The Sudan campaign followed two distinct phases. The first was an attempt to restore Egyptian authority over …
“It’s Not Gonna Leave Any Scars”: Trauma and Coping Among Execution Team Members
A trauma framework is applied to the experiences of execution team members. A directed content analysis of three seminal publications is used to investigate how execution team members respond to observing and participating in executions, a potentially traumatic stressor. Through these texts, supplemented by other research, the study finds that the execution process, meant to facilitate executions and insulate execution team officers from stress, …
Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries
Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death …
Longley, Kyle. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
Longley, Kyle. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval." Congress & the Presidency, 46(3), pp. 513–514
Building an Icon
In 2017, a C-SPAN survey of presidential historians ranked John Kennedy as the nation’s eighth best president. Among post-World War II presidents, he trailed Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, and only narrowly exceeded the score of Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson.1 By contrast, in two decades of Gallup polling (1990 through 2010), Kennedy’s approval rating never fell below seventy-six percent; in 2010, eighty-five percent of Americans approved…
The First World War and the Middle East: A literature review of recent scholarship
The historiography of the First World War in the Middle East has changed over the last two decades, and while some established works stand the test of time, there are new works to consider. This article is designed to assist scholars seeking to trace the contours of recent publications, illustrating the variety of themes and subjects that surround that conflict. Military history is by no means the sole issue of interest, and readers will be struc…
The de Bunsen Committee and a revision of the ‘conspiracy’ of Sykes–Picot
The Sykes–Picot The Sykes-Picot Agreement is often cited as evidence of a Western conspiracy to carve up the Middle East and subordinate the Arabs. It is a prevalent view across the region, and has been a refrain repeated by critics. Yet very little is known of the far more significant conclusions of a Committee, formed by Maurice de Bunsen on the orders of the British government, which ascertained the options open to the Allies in 1915. Far from…
My enemy's enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the US withdrawal
Avinash Paliwal traces India's changing policies towards Afghanistan by highlighting the oscillation between proactive engagement to exploit opportunities and restraint. My enemy's enemy is a retort to accusations, mostly emanating from Islamabad, that India uses Afghanistan simply as a Machiavellian device against Pakistan. Instead, Paliwal argues that India has been successful in maintaining a strategic balance and avoiding ‘rash and immature’ …
Does ethnic identity buffer or intensify the stress of discrimination among the foreign born and U.S. born? Evidence from the Miami‐Dade Health Survey
This study examines the extent to which ethnic identity is a protective factor and buffers the stress of discrimination among the foreign born compared to the U.S. born in Miami-Dade County. Data were drawn from the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (N = 444), which is a countywide probability sample of adults in South Florida. Two interaction effects were observed: (a) a stronger ethnic identity was associated with less distress among the foreign bo…
Hybrid War and Its Countermeasures: A Critique of the Literature
This article examines critically the literature of hybrid war and evaluates the countermeasures often proposed. It explains the concept of hybrid warfare and its varied interpretations, illustrating how it is a manifestation of current anxieties in armed conflict. The selection of the literature is based on works that are referenced, that offer a scientific approach, and which review either the phenomenon of hybrid warfare or its countermeasures …
Tides and Prejudice: Racial Attitudes during Downturns in the United States 1979–2014
What happens to racial prejudice during economic downturns? This paper analyzes white attitudes towards African Americans in the United States at different points in a business cycle from 1979 to 2014. Using a number of indicators of hostility towards African Americans available from the General Social Survey we develop an indicator of racial prejudice. We combine this with data on unemployment from the Current Population Survey and find robust e…
The First World War and the Middle East
The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman dominion. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalized old ones – from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence or the modernizing Atatürk, and it completely re-drew the map of the region, forging a host of new nation states, For many, the self-serving intervention of …
Out of Arabia: British Strategy and the Fate of Local Forces in Aden, South Yemen, and Oman, 1967–76
The British engagement with Oman from 1967–76 came at a time when other imperial and defence commitments were being reduced in the Gulf region and elsewhere. Following the ignominious retreat from Aden, the British chose to support the Omani regime in its conflict with Communist-inspired insurgents (1970–6). This article gives context to the dichotomy of outcomes in southern Arabia and examines the role of local military forces in the counter-ins…
Looking Out: An interview with Kev Carmody
An interview with Kev Carmody
Command of the Army, Charles Gwynn and Imperial Policing: The British Doctrinal Approach to Internal Security in Palestine 1919–29
This article explores, through a case study the nature of ‘imperial policing', its myriad problems, and the issues confronting the chiefs of the Imperial General Staff as they sought to maintain security against falling budgets and increasing nationalist unrest across a variety of theatres in the period 1919–39. In particular it examines the significance of Charles William Gwynn's (1870–1963), short book Imperial Policing (London: Macmillan, 1934…
Upstream engagement and downstream entanglements: The assumptions, opportunities, and threats of partnering
This article addresses Western recruitment and management of personnel from non-Western countries in armed forces as part of a strategy of state stabilisation, examining its risks and benefits. ‘SFA’ (Security Forces Assistance) to indigenous forces has long been practised by the West and seems to have returned in recent years in a new form with the creation of armies in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, while providing cheap, proxy substitutes for …
A Critique of Single-issue Campaigning and the Importance of Comprehensive Abolitionist Vegan Advocacy
A popular tactic in the professional nonhuman animal rights movement is to utilize species-specific or issue-specific campaigns to increase public concern, motivate participation and extend movement support. This article challenges this traditional tactic of moderate nonhuman animal organizations in critiquing the issue-specific approaches to abolition advanced elsewhere and calls for a holistic abolitionist method that requires advocates to reli…
General Roberts, the Occupation of Kabul, and the Problems of Transition, 1879–1880
In 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80), General (later Lord) Frederick Roberts found himself in occupation of the defeated sovereign state of Afghanistan. Initially he claimed his authority stemmed from the Afghan amir and that he was acting on his behalf to suppress rebels, but the abdication of the Afghan ruler amid a popular insurgency and pressure from his political masters meant that Roberts had to establish his own military a…
Managing Helmand province: From Bost to Bastion
A survey of the long history of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan suggests there are common patterns in the causes of violence amongst Afghans of the region. The hypothesis of this article is that there are three broad historical factors that influence outbreaks of violence and their resolution: patronage, control of land and preservation of local autonomy. Each element is in dynamic tension, and today the character of their inter-relation…
The Iran-Iraq War
"The recent conflicts of the Middle East can be traced directly to the Iran-Iraq War. Rob Johnson provides a sound and clear grasp of the major issues surrounding this war - an essential precursor to understanding the nature of both the Iraqi and Iranian regimes in the 1990s and their regional aspirations, and the ensuing Gulf Wars"
The Republicans and Pre-World War II Foreign Policy: The Republicans and Pre-World War II Foreign Policy
We live in a bitterly partisan era. In Washington, party-line voting in both houses of Congress has reached levels unseen since the late nineteenth century. The unprecedented degree of GOP filibustering has created a de facto constitutional amendment by procedure, with sixty senators required to approve even the most mundane matters. Outside of Washington, public opinion polls show yawning gaps between Democrats and Republicans not only on politi…
Refugee Camp Security: Decreasing Vulnerability Through Demographic Controls
In the past, refugee camp security has been examined in many lights; however, the demographic make-up of camps has not been focused on. In this article, I present a quantitative model that examines attacks on refugee camps. I argue that the likelihood of an attack on a camp is affected by the demographic make-up of the camp. The primary demographic causes that affect vulnerability are the level of male population of the camp, age of camp resident…
Does ethnic identity buffer or intensify the stress of discrimination among the foreign born and U.S. born? Evidence from the Miami‐Dade Health Survey
This study examines the extent to which ethnic identity is a protective factor and buffers the stress of discrimination among the foreign born compared to the U.S. born in Miami-Dade County. Data were drawn from the 2011 Miami-Dade Health Survey (N = 444), which is a countywide probability sample of adults in South Florida. Two interaction effects were observed: (a) a stronger ethnic identity was associated with less distress among the foreign bo…
Hybrid War and Its Countermeasures: A Critique of the Literature
This article examines critically the literature of hybrid war and evaluates the countermeasures often proposed. It explains the concept of hybrid warfare and its varied interpretations, illustrating how it is a manifestation of current anxieties in armed conflict. The selection of the literature is based on works that are referenced, that offer a scientific approach, and which review either the phenomenon of hybrid warfare or its countermeasures …
Refugee Camp Security: Decreasing Vulnerability Through Demographic Controls
In the past, refugee camp security has been examined in many lights; however, the demographic make-up of camps has not been focused on. In this article, I present a quantitative model that examines attacks on refugee camps. I argue that the likelihood of an attack on a camp is affected by the demographic make-up of the camp. The primary demographic causes that affect vulnerability are the level of male population of the camp, age of camp resident…
Is the subject's personality or the experimental situation a better predictor of a subject's willingness to administer shock to a victim
Nafta, the Redesign, and Rescaling of Canada’s Welfare State
The first two papers in this issue emphasize the importance of politics and class relations within Canada as an explanatory factor, as compared to relations of dependency with the United States. In “NAFTA, the Redesign, and Rescaling of Canada’s Welfare State,” Robert Johnson and Rianne Mahon argue that the Canadian welfare state regime has converged towards the US model since the Free Trade Agreement, but that forces linked to continental integr…
Tides and Prejudice: Racial Attitudes during Downturns in the United States 1979–2014
What happens to racial prejudice during economic downturns? This paper analyzes white attitudes towards African Americans in the United States at different points in a business cycle from 1979 to 2014. Using a number of indicators of hostility towards African Americans available from the General Social Survey we develop an indicator of racial prejudice. We combine this with data on unemployment from the Current Population Survey and find robust e…
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
Introduction 1. Patterns of Dissent 2. The Emergence of the Peace Progressives 3. Alternative to Wilsonianisin 4. Alternative to Imperialism 5. Alternative to Corporatism 6. Anti-Imperialism and the Peace Movement 7. The Collapse of Wilsonianism 8. The Decline of Anti-Imperialism Epilogue Appendix: Congressional Votes on Foreign Relations, 1914-1932 Notes Select Bibliography Index
General Roberts, the Occupation of Kabul, and the Problems of Transition, 1879–1880
In 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80), General (later Lord) Frederick Roberts found himself in occupation of the defeated sovereign state of Afghanistan. Initially he claimed his authority stemmed from the Afghan amir and that he was acting on his behalf to suppress rebels, but the abdication of the Afghan ruler amid a popular insurgency and pressure from his political masters meant that Roberts had to establish his own military a…
Informal helping networks in prison: The shape of grass-roots correctional intervention
The de Bunsen Committee and a revision of the ‘conspiracy’ of Sykes–Picot
The Sykes–Picot The Sykes-Picot Agreement is often cited as evidence of a Western conspiracy to carve up the Middle East and subordinate the Arabs. It is a prevalent view across the region, and has been a refrain repeated by critics. Yet very little is known of the far more significant conclusions of a Committee, formed by Maurice de Bunsen on the orders of the British government, which ascertained the options open to the Allies in 1915. Far from…
Command of the Army, Charles Gwynn and Imperial Policing: The British Doctrinal Approach to Internal Security in Palestine 1919–29
This article explores, through a case study the nature of ‘imperial policing', its myriad problems, and the issues confronting the chiefs of the Imperial General Staff as they sought to maintain security against falling budgets and increasing nationalist unrest across a variety of theatres in the period 1919–39. In particular it examines the significance of Charles William Gwynn's (1870–1963), short book Imperial Policing (London: Macmillan, 1934…
Upstream engagement and downstream entanglements: The assumptions, opportunities, and threats of partnering
This article addresses Western recruitment and management of personnel from non-Western countries in armed forces as part of a strategy of state stabilisation, examining its risks and benefits. ‘SFA’ (Security Forces Assistance) to indigenous forces has long been practised by the West and seems to have returned in recent years in a new form with the creation of armies in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, while providing cheap, proxy substitutes for …
A Critique of Single-issue Campaigning and the Importance of Comprehensive Abolitionist Vegan Advocacy
A popular tactic in the professional nonhuman animal rights movement is to utilize species-specific or issue-specific campaigns to increase public concern, motivate participation and extend movement support. This article challenges this traditional tactic of moderate nonhuman animal organizations in critiquing the issue-specific approaches to abolition advanced elsewhere and calls for a holistic abolitionist method that requires advocates to reli…
Mizh der beitabora khalqi-i: A Comparative Study of Afghan/Pashtun Perspectives on Negotiating with the British and Soviets, 1839-1989
This article compares the processes of negotiation in Afghanistan in two distinct eras in order to highlight the enduring characteristics of concluding wars and the unique specificities of history. The problem of obtaining reliable sources on the Afghan reactions to negotiations is to some extent offset by an awareness of theoretical approaches and common features of negotiations within the contexts of other conventional and civil wars. The two c…
Inspired Lines: Reading Joy Harjo's Prose Poems
Featuring work in verse lines as well as poems printed in block paragraphs, Joy Harjo's In Mad Love and War marks an important turn in the development of Harjo's poetic voice. Explaining her composing the group, Harjo notes the power of narration here weighs heavily against the demands of poetics. [S]tory, she judges, started to take precedent (Smith 26). Moving away from what one critic refers to as the cumulative power of parallel catalogue fou…
The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War
Journal Article The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War Get access Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON is assistant professor of history at Williams College. His most recent book is Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 645–671, …
Love in Vain
Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy: Ernest Gruening and Puerto Rican Affairs, 1934-1939
During his five years as chief US policy-maker towards Puerto Rico, Ernest Gruening strove to create a model - based on the anti-imperialist principles he had outlined in the 1920s - for a reformist policy which the United States could pursue towards the rest of Latin America. The initial support of Franklin Roosevelt allowed Gruening to position his Puerto Rican programme as one of the three ideological alternatives present in the early stages o…
An Employer Looks at Labor-Management Relations
Robert Johnson
Is the subject's personality or the experimental situation a better predictor of a subject's willingness to administer shock to a victim
Informal helping networks in prison: The shape of grass-roots correctional intervention
Organization and environment: The case of correctional personnel training programs
Ritual and abstraction in Nijinska's Les Noces
When the Diaghilev company premiered Les Noces in 1923, the sorrowful mystery of a Russian peasant wedding became a subject of modern art. Les Noces (Svadebka, or The Wedding) was a collaboration among three of the age's most important Russian avantgarde artists: the composer Igor Stravinsky, the painter Natalia Goncharova, and the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska. Although Stravinsky had initiated the project, it was Nijinska who determined the…
A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1987-88 and 1988-89
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Enchantment” in San Francisco
During the past decade, Nancy Van Norman Baer, a curator of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, has organized a succession of brilliant dance exhibitions. Beginning with Pavlova!, the series continued with Dance in Art, and later included Bronislava Nijinska: A Dancer's Legacy, which New Yorkers like myself had the good fortune to view at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Recently, Ms. Baer did it again and when curiosity impelled me to f…
A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1988-89 and 1989-90
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Bakst on classicism: “The paths of classicism in art”
Leon Bakst-painter, designer, and dandy-was also a writer. In addition to his set and costume designs, a legacy of elegant line and sumptuous color, Bakst left behind him a small number of written works. This literary corpus, though diminutive, is useful to scholars, opening a new window on the artist's genius. Of particular interest is an essay, really the second half of an essay, called Paths of Classicism in Art, which appeared in the third nu…
A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle 1895-1915
An account of how the great American writer Henry James, author of The Turn of the Screw and The Bostonians among many others, attracted the literary fraternity of his age to his house in Rye, Sussex. His visitors included H.G.Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad. Miranda Seymour is a literary reviewer for the London Evening Standard and the TLS. She was written several children's books and novels including Carrying On
Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process
Covert Relations: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James
The natural history of medical and psychiatric disorders in an American Indian community
Sacred scandals
Le Sacre du Printemps: Seven Productions from Nijinsky to Martha Graham by Shelley C. Berg. 207 pp. Illustrated. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1988. (Out‐of‐print; UMI Research Press is defunct)
Article XI in the Debate on the United States' Rejection of the League of Nations
(1993). Article XI in the Debate on the United States' Rejection of the League of Nations. The International History Review: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 502-524
Theatre in revolution: An exhibition and a catalogue
From December 1991 to February 1993, another distinguished exhibition organized by Nancy Van Norman Baer, theatre and dance curator of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco before traveling to New York City, Los Angeles, and San Antonio. Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-garde Stage Design 1913-1935 offered a wide range of theatrical designs, including many prepared for …
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations. By Robert David Johnson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. viii, 448 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-65917-1.) Get access John Whiteclay Chambers, II John Whiteclay Chambers, II Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/…
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
Introduction 1. Patterns of Dissent 2. The Emergence of the Peace Progressives 3. Alternative to Wilsonianisin 4. Alternative to Imperialism 5. Alternative to Corporatism 6. Anti-Imperialism and the Peace Movement 7. The Collapse of Wilsonianism 8. The Decline of Anti-Imperialism Epilogue Appendix: Congressional Votes on Foreign Relations, 1914-1932 Notes Select Bibliography Index
California Progressivism Revisited
Journal Article California Progressivism Revisited Get access California Progressivism Revisited. Edited by Deverell William Sitton Tom. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xii + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.) Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn …
The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Vietnam, 1959-1964
Research Article| May 01 1996 The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Vietnam, 1959-1964 Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 249–275. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639985 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy: Ernest Gruening and Puerto Rican Affairs, 1934-1939
During his five years as chief US policy-maker towards Puerto Rico, Ernest Gruening strove to create a model - based on the anti-imperialist principles he had outlined in the 1920s - for a reformist policy which the United States could pursue towards the rest of Latin America. The initial support of Franklin Roosevelt allowed Gruening to position his Puerto Rican programme as one of the three ideological alternatives present in the early stages o…
The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War
Journal Article The Government Operations Committee and Foreign Policy During the Cold War Get access Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON is assistant professor of history at Williams College. His most recent book is Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 645–671, …
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
Journal Article Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957. By Penny M. Von Eschen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiv, 259 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3197-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8292-5) Get access Robert David Johnson Robert David Johnson Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue…
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