Colin Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obuda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4502-3954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Characterising homelessness among adults treated in Australian public mental health case management services: Community and hospital settings
Somali Navy from 1965 to the 1980s: A research note
Naval advising and assistance is an understudied field, in comparison to military advising and assistance on land. The author is only aware of three states whose navies have had to be rebuilt from nothing since 1999: East Timor, Iraq, and the varying efforts in Somalia. Advisory and assistance efforts of this type are helped by accurate data on the history that shapes and motivates new navies’ personnel. Yet, as regards Somalia, there is virtuall…
Why the Afghan and Iraqi Armies Collapsed: An Allied Perspective
Rather than military factors, American and Western liberal ideas (ideological views) and politics explain many of the obstacles faced in rebuilding the Afghan and Iraqi Armies. Liberal ideas largely determined what options the coalition would use. Ideological factors help explain democratization and reconstruction challenges, partner leaders with divergent aims, military-cultural factors and the Western combat focus, politicization, corruption, a…
Why did the 2004–09 Liberia SSR Program not succeed in creating an accountable and effective army
The collapse of Western-supported Afghan forces in mid-2021 emphasizes how difficult building whole armies can be. The Liberian experience 2004–2009 holds relevant lessons. After the civil war ended, the US State Department engaged two private military contractors to recreate a new Liberian army from the ashes. But scholarship so far on the Liberian army reconstruction process has been mixed, partially obscuring some of the core truths of the pro…
Addendum: The Sudanese Army’s History 1953–1970s
A Generation of Mysteries: Sketching the Threads of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ First Quarter Century (c. 1953–1976)
The history and the conflicts in which Sudanese Government armed forces have been involved are of interest both from the Sudanese historical and the military-historical angles. But while the agonies of Sudan’s civil wars have attracted significant academic interest, the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official military institutions in Africa have been neglected, and there is little recent research. Sudanese military interven…
Military advising and assistance in Somalia: Fragmented interveners, fragmented Somali military forces
Southern Somalia has attracted substantial military aid and assistance for decades. As the state disintegrated in the late 1980s, clan dynamics became more critical, warlords emerged, and power bases shifted. Since 2008, the number of foreign military forces and advisors (including private military contractors) has substantially increased, as has the creation of numerous Somali security units. Such actions are symptomatic of broader trends concer…
A forgotten decade? Politicking and war for the ANC/FAZ 1967-1977
The history of the Congo’s Armée nationale congolaise (1960–71) and Forces armées zairoïses (1971–97) between the ‘mercenaries’ mutinies’ of 1967 and the two Shaba incursions is worthy of further research. President Mobutu wished to make sure that the ANC/FAZ presented no threat to his rule, against the backdrop of scores of military coups going on across the breadth of Africa. Three key themes are evident in the history of the ANC/FAZ from 1967 …
Rebuilding armies in southern Somalia: What currently should donors realistically aim for
Improving defence accountability and effectiveness is even more difficult when wars are actively underway. Southern Somalia bears considerable resemblance to previous counterinsurgency theatres in Afghanistan and Iraq, and thus considerations of defence assistance should be actively informed by those campaigns. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) intervention force has been critical to seizing much of the towns and terrain now freed fro…
Political and Military Obstacles to the North African Regional Capability
It appears almost certain that the African Standby Force as originally imagined will never deploy. All five regions have, however, improved military cooperation and gained significant Western investment, strengthening well-positioned elites. Virtually nothing has eventuated in North Africa, primarily because of lack of regional interest, especially following the fall of Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi and the ensuing civil war. Regional armies …
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
How might Democratisation Affect Military Professionalism in Africa? Reviewing the Literature
The search continues for methods to improve security for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of the important actors in this security arena is Sub-Saharan African governments’ armies. Much of their capability to meet security challenge depends on how militarily professional they are. The wave of democratic evolution in Africa since 1990 also affected military professionalism. This article reviews three models for assessing how democratisation …
Revisiting the rise and fall of the Somali Armed Forces, 1960–2012
The history of the Somali Armed Forces, principally the army, forms an important part of studying the Somali civil war. Two key themes are evident from 1960: the pursuit of an irredentist agenda beyond reasonable limits, which led to the downfall of Siad Barre’s regime, and the clan divisions and agendas that Barre used to shore up his rule in the 1980s and that have bedeviled the rebirth of the Somali Army in the twenty-first century. With the t…
Rasch measurement: A response to Goldstein
The Eastern Africa Standby Force: History and Prospects
The Eastern Africa Standby Force is one of the five planned regional forces of the African Standby Force (ASF). Since February 2004 work has been underway to raise an Eastern Africa brigade to operational status. However, Eastern African states may prefer to solve their security problems in a unilateral military fashion, rather than through the integrated model of the ASF. Resources, as always in Sub-Saharan Africa, are scarce, operational capabi…
Too Much Nationality: Kashmiri Refugees, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and a Refugee State, 1947-1974
This article examines the development of a regional refugee regime through an examination of the international context in which ‘Kashmiri refugees’ emerged as rights-bearing political subjects. I distinguish between the refugee regime that was developing in Europe at the end of the Second World War and the refugee regime that was developing to handle the integration of Partition refugees into the new nation-states of Pakistan and India during the…
Army reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2003-2009
Since the peace agreements of 2002–2003 which ended the second war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reconstruction of the army has been an inherently political process, in common with other attempts to carry out security sector reform (SSR). This article briefly sketches out the Congolese army's history, then attempts to fill a gap in the literature on Congolese SSR by detailing what can be found of the actual structure and shape of the prese…
The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement
Assessment has been dominated by Classical Test Theory for the last half century although the radically different approach known as Rasch measurement briefly blossomed in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Its open development was stopped dead in the 1980s, whilst some work has continued almost surreptitiously. Elsewhere Rasch has assumed dominance. The purpose of this article is to discuss the major criticisms of the Rasch model, which led to i…
Youth homelessness in Britain and Australia: The same story
The article examines approaches to helping young homeless people in Britain and Australia, and concludes that the similarities far outweigh the differences
The Market for North Sea Crude Oil
Journal Article The Market for North Sea Crude Oil Get access The Market for North Sea Crude Oil. By ROBERT MABRO et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xxxii + 341. à £29.50 hardback.) Colin Robinson Colin Robinson University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 386, 1 June 1987, Pages 522–523, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232907 Published: 01 June 1987
The Economics of Energy Self-Sufficiency
Oil Resources: Who Gets What How? Kenneth W. Dam
The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations
Journal Article The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations Get access The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations. By Philip Connelly and Robert Perlman. Foreword by Andrew Shonfield. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1975. 162 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3.50. Colin Robinson Colin Robinson Search for other works by this author on:…
Revisiting the rise and fall of the Somali Armed Forces, 1960–2012
The history of the Somali Armed Forces, principally the army, forms an important part of studying the Somali civil war. Two key themes are evident from 1960: the pursuit of an irredentist agenda beyond reasonable limits, which led to the downfall of Siad Barre’s regime, and the clan divisions and agendas that Barre used to shore up his rule in the 1980s and that have bedeviled the rebirth of the Somali Army in the twenty-first century. With the t…
Too Much Nationality: Kashmiri Refugees, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and a Refugee State, 1947-1974
This article examines the development of a regional refugee regime through an examination of the international context in which ‘Kashmiri refugees’ emerged as rights-bearing political subjects. I distinguish between the refugee regime that was developing in Europe at the end of the Second World War and the refugee regime that was developing to handle the integration of Partition refugees into the new nation-states of Pakistan and India during the…
The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement
Assessment has been dominated by Classical Test Theory for the last half century although the radically different approach known as Rasch measurement briefly blossomed in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Its open development was stopped dead in the 1980s, whilst some work has continued almost surreptitiously. Elsewhere Rasch has assumed dominance. The purpose of this article is to discuss the major criticisms of the Rasch model, which led to i…
The Market for North Sea Crude Oil
Journal Article The Market for North Sea Crude Oil Get access The Market for North Sea Crude Oil. By ROBERT MABRO et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xxxii + 341. à £29.50 hardback.) Colin Robinson Colin Robinson University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 386, 1 June 1987, Pages 522–523, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232907 Published: 01 June 1987
Army reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2003-2009
Since the peace agreements of 2002–2003 which ended the second war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reconstruction of the army has been an inherently political process, in common with other attempts to carry out security sector reform (SSR). This article briefly sketches out the Congolese army's history, then attempts to fill a gap in the literature on Congolese SSR by detailing what can be found of the actual structure and shape of the prese…
Military advising and assistance in Somalia: Fragmented interveners, fragmented Somali military forces
Southern Somalia has attracted substantial military aid and assistance for decades. As the state disintegrated in the late 1980s, clan dynamics became more critical, warlords emerged, and power bases shifted. Since 2008, the number of foreign military forces and advisors (including private military contractors) has substantially increased, as has the creation of numerous Somali security units. Such actions are symptomatic of broader trends concer…
A forgotten decade? Politicking and war for the ANC/FAZ 1967-1977
The history of the Congo’s Armée nationale congolaise (1960–71) and Forces armées zairoïses (1971–97) between the ‘mercenaries’ mutinies’ of 1967 and the two Shaba incursions is worthy of further research. President Mobutu wished to make sure that the ANC/FAZ presented no threat to his rule, against the backdrop of scores of military coups going on across the breadth of Africa. Three key themes are evident in the history of the ANC/FAZ from 1967 …
Political and Military Obstacles to the North African Regional Capability
It appears almost certain that the African Standby Force as originally imagined will never deploy. All five regions have, however, improved military cooperation and gained significant Western investment, strengthening well-positioned elites. Virtually nothing has eventuated in North Africa, primarily because of lack of regional interest, especially following the fall of Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi and the ensuing civil war. Regional armies …
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
How might Democratisation Affect Military Professionalism in Africa? Reviewing the Literature
The search continues for methods to improve security for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of the important actors in this security arena is Sub-Saharan African governments’ armies. Much of their capability to meet security challenge depends on how militarily professional they are. The wave of democratic evolution in Africa since 1990 also affected military professionalism. This article reviews three models for assessing how democratisation …
The Eastern Africa Standby Force: History and Prospects
The Eastern Africa Standby Force is one of the five planned regional forces of the African Standby Force (ASF). Since February 2004 work has been underway to raise an Eastern Africa brigade to operational status. However, Eastern African states may prefer to solve their security problems in a unilateral military fashion, rather than through the integrated model of the ASF. Resources, as always in Sub-Saharan Africa, are scarce, operational capabi…
The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations
Journal Article The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations Get access The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations. By Philip Connelly and Robert Perlman. Foreword by Andrew Shonfield. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1975. 162 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3.50. Colin Robinson Colin Robinson Search for other works by this author on:…
The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations
Journal Article The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations Get access The Politics of Scarcity: Resource Conflicts in International Relations. By Philip Connelly and Robert Perlman. Foreword by Andrew Shonfield. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1975. 162 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3.50. Colin Robinson Colin Robinson Search for other works by this author on:…
Oil Resources: Who Gets What How? Kenneth W. Dam
The Economics of Energy Self-Sufficiency
The Market for North Sea Crude Oil
Journal Article The Market for North Sea Crude Oil Get access The Market for North Sea Crude Oil. By ROBERT MABRO et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. xxxii + 341. à £29.50 hardback.) Colin Robinson Colin Robinson University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 386, 1 June 1987, Pages 522–523, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232907 Published: 01 June 1987
Youth homelessness in Britain and Australia: The same story
The article examines approaches to helping young homeless people in Britain and Australia, and concludes that the similarities far outweigh the differences
The assessment revolution that has passed England by: Rasch measurement
Assessment has been dominated by Classical Test Theory for the last half century although the radically different approach known as Rasch measurement briefly blossomed in England during the 1960s and 1970s. Its open development was stopped dead in the 1980s, whilst some work has continued almost surreptitiously. Elsewhere Rasch has assumed dominance. The purpose of this article is to discuss the major criticisms of the Rasch model, which led to i…
Too Much Nationality: Kashmiri Refugees, the South Asian Refugee Regime, and a Refugee State, 1947-1974
This article examines the development of a regional refugee regime through an examination of the international context in which ‘Kashmiri refugees’ emerged as rights-bearing political subjects. I distinguish between the refugee regime that was developing in Europe at the end of the Second World War and the refugee regime that was developing to handle the integration of Partition refugees into the new nation-states of Pakistan and India during the…
Army reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2003-2009
Since the peace agreements of 2002–2003 which ended the second war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reconstruction of the army has been an inherently political process, in common with other attempts to carry out security sector reform (SSR). This article briefly sketches out the Congolese army's history, then attempts to fill a gap in the literature on Congolese SSR by detailing what can be found of the actual structure and shape of the prese…
The Eastern Africa Standby Force: History and Prospects
The Eastern Africa Standby Force is one of the five planned regional forces of the African Standby Force (ASF). Since February 2004 work has been underway to raise an Eastern Africa brigade to operational status. However, Eastern African states may prefer to solve their security problems in a unilateral military fashion, rather than through the integrated model of the ASF. Resources, as always in Sub-Saharan Africa, are scarce, operational capabi…
Rasch measurement: A response to Goldstein
Revisiting the rise and fall of the Somali Armed Forces, 1960–2012
The history of the Somali Armed Forces, principally the army, forms an important part of studying the Somali civil war. Two key themes are evident from 1960: the pursuit of an irredentist agenda beyond reasonable limits, which led to the downfall of Siad Barre’s regime, and the clan divisions and agendas that Barre used to shore up his rule in the 1980s and that have bedeviled the rebirth of the Somali Army in the twenty-first century. With the t…
Transform Health Arkansas: A Transgender-Led Partnership Engaging Transgender/Non-Binary Arkansans in Defining Health Research Priorities
Next steps include dissemination, identification of evidence-based interventions addressing prioritized issues, and joint development of a research agenda
How might Democratisation Affect Military Professionalism in Africa? Reviewing the Literature
The search continues for methods to improve security for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of the important actors in this security arena is Sub-Saharan African governments’ armies. Much of their capability to meet security challenge depends on how militarily professional they are. The wave of democratic evolution in Africa since 1990 also affected military professionalism. This article reviews three models for assessing how democratisation …
Political and Military Obstacles to the North African Regional Capability
It appears almost certain that the African Standby Force as originally imagined will never deploy. All five regions have, however, improved military cooperation and gained significant Western investment, strengthening well-positioned elites. Virtually nothing has eventuated in North Africa, primarily because of lack of regional interest, especially following the fall of Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi and the ensuing civil war. Regional armies …
Military advising and assistance in Somalia: Fragmented interveners, fragmented Somali military forces
Southern Somalia has attracted substantial military aid and assistance for decades. As the state disintegrated in the late 1980s, clan dynamics became more critical, warlords emerged, and power bases shifted. Since 2008, the number of foreign military forces and advisors (including private military contractors) has substantially increased, as has the creation of numerous Somali security units. Such actions are symptomatic of broader trends concer…
A forgotten decade? Politicking and war for the ANC/FAZ 1967-1977
The history of the Congo’s Armée nationale congolaise (1960–71) and Forces armées zairoïses (1971–97) between the ‘mercenaries’ mutinies’ of 1967 and the two Shaba incursions is worthy of further research. President Mobutu wished to make sure that the ANC/FAZ presented no threat to his rule, against the backdrop of scores of military coups going on across the breadth of Africa. Three key themes are evident in the history of the ANC/FAZ from 1967 …
Rebuilding armies in southern Somalia: What currently should donors realistically aim for
Improving defence accountability and effectiveness is even more difficult when wars are actively underway. Southern Somalia bears considerable resemblance to previous counterinsurgency theatres in Afghanistan and Iraq, and thus considerations of defence assistance should be actively informed by those campaigns. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) intervention force has been critical to seizing much of the towns and terrain now freed fro…
Addendum: The Sudanese Army’s History 1953–1970s
A Generation of Mysteries: Sketching the Threads of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ First Quarter Century (c. 1953–1976)
The history and the conflicts in which Sudanese Government armed forces have been involved are of interest both from the Sudanese historical and the military-historical angles. But while the agonies of Sudan’s civil wars have attracted significant academic interest, the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official military institutions in Africa have been neglected, and there is little recent research. Sudanese military interven…
Why did the 2004–09 Liberia SSR Program not succeed in creating an accountable and effective army
The collapse of Western-supported Afghan forces in mid-2021 emphasizes how difficult building whole armies can be. The Liberian experience 2004–2009 holds relevant lessons. After the civil war ended, the US State Department engaged two private military contractors to recreate a new Liberian army from the ashes. But scholarship so far on the Liberian army reconstruction process has been mixed, partially obscuring some of the core truths of the pro…
Somali Navy from 1965 to the 1980s: A research note
Naval advising and assistance is an understudied field, in comparison to military advising and assistance on land. The author is only aware of three states whose navies have had to be rebuilt from nothing since 1999: East Timor, Iraq, and the varying efforts in Somalia. Advisory and assistance efforts of this type are helped by accurate data on the history that shapes and motivates new navies’ personnel. Yet, as regards Somalia, there is virtuall…
Why the Afghan and Iraqi Armies Collapsed: An Allied Perspective
Rather than military factors, American and Western liberal ideas (ideological views) and politics explain many of the obstacles faced in rebuilding the Afghan and Iraqi Armies. Liberal ideas largely determined what options the coalition would use. Ideological factors help explain democratization and reconstruction challenges, partner leaders with divergent aims, military-cultural factors and the Western combat focus, politicization, corruption, a…
Characterising homelessness among adults treated in Australian public mental health case management services: Community and hospital settings
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