Adam Lockyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Lockyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lockyer |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKYER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8778-0454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Geo-economic Choice
Semiconductors are among the most precious commodities in the modern world. They are essential components in everything from digital clocks and microwave ovens to hypersonic ballistic missiles and autonomous vehicles. Their global manufacture is also dominated by a single country: Taiwan. At first glance, the United States’ recent measures to greatly increase its domestic silicon-chip production might appear to make economic and geopolitical sens…
The national security implications of solar geoengineering
Given current emissions trends an increase in global temperatures in excess of 2°C is highly likely in the coming century. In this context, it seems increasingly probable that states may consider solar geoengineering as a stop-gap climate response. Solar geoengineering refers to measures that aim to alleviate some measure of global warming by intentionally increasing the amount of the sun’s energy that is reflected into space. Currently the two m…
Genetics and Politics
Social scientists most often seek to empirically validate something already observed. Genetics identifies the unobserved. It provides a starting point to identify developmental pathways to preferences and behaviors. Understanding differences in the genome can help identify why people who experience the same social environment physically perceive it differently and react to it differently. The introduction of evolutionary theory, combined with met…
Opposing Foreign Intervention’s Impact on the Warfare in Civil Wars
This article examines the impact of opposing foreign intervention on the course and nature of the warfare in the Ethiopian-Ogaden Civil War. The Ogaden War, having been sporadically fought between 1963 and 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest in the Horn of Africa’s turbulent history. It was typical of civil wars in having attracted the involvement of a range of regional and international actors; in the Ogaden’s case, it was the Soviet Unio…
Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars
Denial strategy in Australian strategic thought
Although denial has been at the centre of Australian strategic thought for decades, it has frequently been used as a broad catch-all term. This article shows, however, that there are two distinct denial traditions in Australian strategic thought: anti-access denial and area denial. Despite the different denial strategies having significantly different implications for defence budgets, procurement and force structure, official strategic guidance a…
Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars
An Australian defence policy for a multipolar Asia
There is a growing consensus among defence planners that Australia is in need of a new defence policy that better suits the strategic realties of an emerging multipolar Asia. After assessing the implications of shifting regional power balances for Australia, this article advances the argument that Australia should redirect its attention back to its immediate north: the “Indo-Pacific Arc”. Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia have always been vitally…
Resolving the Difference between Evolutionary Antecedents of Political Attitudes and Sources of Human Variation
Humans, despite the country they inhabit, the social structures they constitute, and the forms of governments they live under, universally possess political attitudes; that is, those attitudes towards sexual norms, out-groups, resource allocation, cooperation and fairness. It has been proposed that this near universal manifestation across societies remains ingrained in the psychological architecture of humans because of human evolution. However, …
The Logic of Interoperability
INTRODUCTIONSince 1918, Australia has joined the United States in every one of its major conflicts: World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Australia's enduring commitment to the alliance has led to a renewed focus on joint operations. The new maxim within Australian defence circles is Interoperability with the US military has become the keystone phrase for many issues relating to Australia's procurement, …
Evaluating civil development in counterinsurgency operations
It is a widely held belief that civil development programs play a central role in any counterinsurgency campaign. It is assumed that civil development assistance is key to ‘winning the hearts and minds’ of the civilian population, which, in turn, is crucial for victory. However, there is currently little evidence to support this belief. This article begins by analysing the different methods that have been used in Afghanistan in order to evaluate …
How democracies exit small wars
This article argues that opposition political parties can play an important role in determining when and how a democracy exits a small war. Recent theoretical and empirical research on small wars has further uncovered the restrictions and constraints that democratic societies place on their government's war strategies. However, the mechanisms through which public opinion constrains and pressures government strategies have received relatively less…
Foreign intervention and warfare in civil wars
This article explains how foreign assistance to one or both sides in a civil war influences the dynamics of the conflict. It submits that external assistance has the potential of affecting the military capabilities available to the belligerents. It then argues that the balance of those capabilities impacts significantly on whether the warfare in a civil war assumes a conventional, guerrilla or irregular form. These theoretical assertions are test…
The Dynamics of Warfare in Civil War
This article explains theoretically, and demonstrates empirically, the instrumental role of the balance of capabilities in shaping the form of warfare that develops in civil wars. It contends that the current common practice of labelling civil wars as either 'guerrilla' or 'conventional' (which is usually meant to accurately characterise the type of warfare throughout an entire civil war) is unable to fully encapsulate the dynamic nature of warfa…
The Dynamics of Warfare in Civil War
This article explains theoretically, and demonstrates empirically, the instrumental role of the balance of capabilities in shaping the form of warfare that develops in civil wars. It contends that the current common practice of labelling civil wars as either 'guerrilla' or 'conventional' (which is usually meant to accurately characterise the type of warfare throughout an entire civil war) is unable to fully encapsulate the dynamic nature of warfa…
The national security implications of solar geoengineering
Given current emissions trends an increase in global temperatures in excess of 2°C is highly likely in the coming century. In this context, it seems increasingly probable that states may consider solar geoengineering as a stop-gap climate response. Solar geoengineering refers to measures that aim to alleviate some measure of global warming by intentionally increasing the amount of the sun’s energy that is reflected into space. Currently the two m…
Foreign intervention and warfare in civil wars
This article explains how foreign assistance to one or both sides in a civil war influences the dynamics of the conflict. It submits that external assistance has the potential of affecting the military capabilities available to the belligerents. It then argues that the balance of those capabilities impacts significantly on whether the warfare in a civil war assumes a conventional, guerrilla or irregular form. These theoretical assertions are test…
The Logic of Interoperability
INTRODUCTIONSince 1918, Australia has joined the United States in every one of its major conflicts: World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Australia's enduring commitment to the alliance has led to a renewed focus on joint operations. The new maxim within Australian defence circles is Interoperability with the US military has become the keystone phrase for many issues relating to Australia's procurement, …
Evaluating civil development in counterinsurgency operations
It is a widely held belief that civil development programs play a central role in any counterinsurgency campaign. It is assumed that civil development assistance is key to ‘winning the hearts and minds’ of the civilian population, which, in turn, is crucial for victory. However, there is currently little evidence to support this belief. This article begins by analysing the different methods that have been used in Afghanistan in order to evaluate …
Opposing Foreign Intervention’s Impact on the Warfare in Civil Wars
This article examines the impact of opposing foreign intervention on the course and nature of the warfare in the Ethiopian-Ogaden Civil War. The Ogaden War, having been sporadically fought between 1963 and 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest in the Horn of Africa’s turbulent history. It was typical of civil wars in having attracted the involvement of a range of regional and international actors; in the Ogaden’s case, it was the Soviet Unio…
Denial strategy in Australian strategic thought
Although denial has been at the centre of Australian strategic thought for decades, it has frequently been used as a broad catch-all term. This article shows, however, that there are two distinct denial traditions in Australian strategic thought: anti-access denial and area denial. Despite the different denial strategies having significantly different implications for defence budgets, procurement and force structure, official strategic guidance a…
Resolving the Difference between Evolutionary Antecedents of Political Attitudes and Sources of Human Variation
Humans, despite the country they inhabit, the social structures they constitute, and the forms of governments they live under, universally possess political attitudes; that is, those attitudes towards sexual norms, out-groups, resource allocation, cooperation and fairness. It has been proposed that this near universal manifestation across societies remains ingrained in the psychological architecture of humans because of human evolution. However, …
An Australian defence policy for a multipolar Asia
There is a growing consensus among defence planners that Australia is in need of a new defence policy that better suits the strategic realties of an emerging multipolar Asia. After assessing the implications of shifting regional power balances for Australia, this article advances the argument that Australia should redirect its attention back to its immediate north: the “Indo-Pacific Arc”. Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia have always been vitally…
The Dynamics of Warfare in Civil War
This article explains theoretically, and demonstrates empirically, the instrumental role of the balance of capabilities in shaping the form of warfare that develops in civil wars. It contends that the current common practice of labelling civil wars as either 'guerrilla' or 'conventional' (which is usually meant to accurately characterise the type of warfare throughout an entire civil war) is unable to fully encapsulate the dynamic nature of warfa…
Foreign intervention and warfare in civil wars
This article explains how foreign assistance to one or both sides in a civil war influences the dynamics of the conflict. It submits that external assistance has the potential of affecting the military capabilities available to the belligerents. It then argues that the balance of those capabilities impacts significantly on whether the warfare in a civil war assumes a conventional, guerrilla or irregular form. These theoretical assertions are test…
Evaluating civil development in counterinsurgency operations
It is a widely held belief that civil development programs play a central role in any counterinsurgency campaign. It is assumed that civil development assistance is key to ‘winning the hearts and minds’ of the civilian population, which, in turn, is crucial for victory. However, there is currently little evidence to support this belief. This article begins by analysing the different methods that have been used in Afghanistan in order to evaluate …
How democracies exit small wars
This article argues that opposition political parties can play an important role in determining when and how a democracy exits a small war. Recent theoretical and empirical research on small wars has further uncovered the restrictions and constraints that democratic societies place on their government's war strategies. However, the mechanisms through which public opinion constrains and pressures government strategies have received relatively less…
The Logic of Interoperability
INTRODUCTIONSince 1918, Australia has joined the United States in every one of its major conflicts: World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Australia's enduring commitment to the alliance has led to a renewed focus on joint operations. The new maxim within Australian defence circles is Interoperability with the US military has become the keystone phrase for many issues relating to Australia's procurement, …
Resolving the Difference between Evolutionary Antecedents of Political Attitudes and Sources of Human Variation
Humans, despite the country they inhabit, the social structures they constitute, and the forms of governments they live under, universally possess political attitudes; that is, those attitudes towards sexual norms, out-groups, resource allocation, cooperation and fairness. It has been proposed that this near universal manifestation across societies remains ingrained in the psychological architecture of humans because of human evolution. However, …
An Australian defence policy for a multipolar Asia
There is a growing consensus among defence planners that Australia is in need of a new defence policy that better suits the strategic realties of an emerging multipolar Asia. After assessing the implications of shifting regional power balances for Australia, this article advances the argument that Australia should redirect its attention back to its immediate north: the “Indo-Pacific Arc”. Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia have always been vitally…
Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars
Denial strategy in Australian strategic thought
Although denial has been at the centre of Australian strategic thought for decades, it has frequently been used as a broad catch-all term. This article shows, however, that there are two distinct denial traditions in Australian strategic thought: anti-access denial and area denial. Despite the different denial strategies having significantly different implications for defence budgets, procurement and force structure, official strategic guidance a…
Foreign Intervention, Warfare and Civil Wars
Genetics and Politics
Social scientists most often seek to empirically validate something already observed. Genetics identifies the unobserved. It provides a starting point to identify developmental pathways to preferences and behaviors. Understanding differences in the genome can help identify why people who experience the same social environment physically perceive it differently and react to it differently. The introduction of evolutionary theory, combined with met…
Opposing Foreign Intervention’s Impact on the Warfare in Civil Wars
This article examines the impact of opposing foreign intervention on the course and nature of the warfare in the Ethiopian-Ogaden Civil War. The Ogaden War, having been sporadically fought between 1963 and 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest in the Horn of Africa’s turbulent history. It was typical of civil wars in having attracted the involvement of a range of regional and international actors; in the Ogaden’s case, it was the Soviet Unio…
The national security implications of solar geoengineering
Given current emissions trends an increase in global temperatures in excess of 2°C is highly likely in the coming century. In this context, it seems increasingly probable that states may consider solar geoengineering as a stop-gap climate response. Solar geoengineering refers to measures that aim to alleviate some measure of global warming by intentionally increasing the amount of the sun’s energy that is reflected into space. Currently the two m…
A Geo-economic Choice
Semiconductors are among the most precious commodities in the modern world. They are essential components in everything from digital clocks and microwave ovens to hypersonic ballistic missiles and autonomous vehicles. Their global manufacture is also dominated by a single country: Taiwan. At first glance, the United States’ recent measures to greatly increase its domestic silicon-chip production might appear to make economic and geopolitical sens…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works) · Spanish Civil War (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works)