Wyn Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 685305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wyn Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6746-4684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Ukraine war, the indo-pacific and anglo-American Relations
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly impacted Anglo-American relations. It has created a divergence in Anglo-American strategic interests that has been exacerbated by the policies of the second Trump administration. The war between Russia and Ukraine forced the UK to re-focus its attention on the security of the Euro-Atlantic area and assitance for Ukraine. President Trump has affirmed that China will remain America's foremost s…
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal
There have been protracted negotiations in Vienna to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or nuclear deal, that Iran signed in 2015 but was suspended by the withdrawal of the United States four years later. This article argues that two factors account for the failure to renew the JCPOA. One is the 2021 change of presidency in Iran from the reformist Hassan Rouhani to the conservative Ebrahim Raisi. The other is the transformed i…
US–UK–France relations amid the Russia–Ukraine war
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the recognition of the rising challenge from China have resulted in a closer alignment of American, British and French strategic interests. This policy paper explores how the strategic relationship between the United States, the United Kingdom and France has evolved amid this changed threat environment. The Russia–Ukraine war exposed the limitations of France's policy of ‘strategic autonomy’ and reasserted the …
Nuclear divergence between Britain and the United States
This article draws on recently declassified documents on both sides of the Atlantic to reveal the depth of the disagreements between Britain and the United States over adherence to the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty during the 1980s. In the context of the radical Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the Thatcher government feared that the dismissive attitude of the Reagan administration towards the ABM Treaty would undermine the role of arms …
UK Defence Policy After Ukraine
The 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy signified a major change in United Kingdom’s defence thinking because it identified China as the foremost threat to its long-term security interests. The resulting tilt to the Indo-Pacific region resurrected the prospect of a defence role that the UK had relinquished in the 1960s. Yet the UK can ill-afford to become a significant defence actor in the Indo-Pacific area…
America and the special relationship
The Anglo-American military relationship
The Anglo-American military relationship is a vital yet neglected area of study. This article argues that the British military have actively cultivated a relationship with the U.S. military that has contributed to the longevity of the broader so-called “Special Relationship,” even in the Trump era. The article contends that the complexities of the military relationship can best be captured by the theoretical lens provided by Lowndes and Roberts t…
Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era
The Anglo-American and Israeli-American special relationships have proved to be unusually close and have confounded expectations that they would wither away with the changing international environment. In order to explain this, the article proposes a theory of ‘alliance persistence’ that is based on reciprocity over shared geostrategic interests, sentimental attachments and institutionalised security relations. The article employs this theoretica…
America, Brexit and the security of Europe
The Obama administration played a surprisingly interventionist role in the UK referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), arguing that a vote to leave would damage European security. Yet this article contends that US attitudes towards the EU as a security actor, and the part played within it by the United Kingdom, have been much more complex than the United States has sought to portray. While it has spoken the language of partnership, it…
A Strategic Defence Review
Securing the Homelands
Since 9/11, internal security co-operation has grown into a major feature of transatlantic relations. This article seeks to appraise both the achievements of the Bush administration in this field and the prospects for President Obama's period of office. Homeland security has been a new and difficult area of co-operation to foster, yet both sides of the Atlantic have come to recognise their shared interests in working together. The article caution…
The Hague Programme
Jaap W. de Zwaan and Flora A.N.J. Goudappel (eds) Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union. Implementation of the Hague Programme (The Hague: T. M. C Asser Press 2006) Books on the subje
Inside Out
The field of Justice, Liberty and Security has evolved into an important and dynamic policy domain since the early 1990s. An external policy dimension has developed in relation to internal security as the EU has wrestled with a range of transnational threats. This article analyses this external policy dimension and argues that the Union’s response has two facets. First, the EU has sought to impose its model of internal security upon its neighbour…
Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has expanded from traditional military security issues into countering terrorism, international organized crime and drug trafficking. This has injected new impetus into transatlantic relations to work together on matters such as intelligence sharing and law …
European and Asian responses to the US-led ‘war on terror’
This article seeks to establish a context for the other contributions to this special issue. Using the lens of strategic culture, the article tries to explore how states from Europe and Asia have responded to the US-led ‘war on terror’. It argues that the nature of the threat from international terrorism requires states in Europe and Asia to develop a range of external and internal policy responses. Europe has been able to react to this changing …
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
The 1957 Sandys white paper
The Federal Republic of Germany
Africa
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
Inside Out
The field of Justice, Liberty and Security has evolved into an important and dynamic policy domain since the early 1990s. An external policy dimension has developed in relation to internal security as the EU has wrestled with a range of transnational threats. This article analyses this external policy dimension and argues that the Union’s response has two facets. First, the EU has sought to impose its model of internal security upon its neighbour…
America, Brexit and the security of Europe
The Obama administration played a surprisingly interventionist role in the UK referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), arguing that a vote to leave would damage European security. Yet this article contends that US attitudes towards the EU as a security actor, and the part played within it by the United Kingdom, have been much more complex than the United States has sought to portray. While it has spoken the language of partnership, it…
US–UK–France relations amid the Russia–Ukraine war
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the recognition of the rising challenge from China have resulted in a closer alignment of American, British and French strategic interests. This policy paper explores how the strategic relationship between the United States, the United Kingdom and France has evolved amid this changed threat environment. The Russia–Ukraine war exposed the limitations of France's policy of ‘strategic autonomy’ and reasserted the …
UK Defence Policy After Ukraine
The 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy signified a major change in United Kingdom’s defence thinking because it identified China as the foremost threat to its long-term security interests. The resulting tilt to the Indo-Pacific region resurrected the prospect of a defence role that the UK had relinquished in the 1960s. Yet the UK can ill-afford to become a significant defence actor in the Indo-Pacific area…
The Anglo-American military relationship
The Anglo-American military relationship is a vital yet neglected area of study. This article argues that the British military have actively cultivated a relationship with the U.S. military that has contributed to the longevity of the broader so-called “Special Relationship,” even in the Trump era. The article contends that the complexities of the military relationship can best be captured by the theoretical lens provided by Lowndes and Roberts t…
Securing the Homelands
Since 9/11, internal security co-operation has grown into a major feature of transatlantic relations. This article seeks to appraise both the achievements of the Bush administration in this field and the prospects for President Obama's period of office. Homeland security has been a new and difficult area of co-operation to foster, yet both sides of the Atlantic have come to recognise their shared interests in working together. The article caution…
European and Asian responses to the US-led ‘war on terror’
This article seeks to establish a context for the other contributions to this special issue. Using the lens of strategic culture, the article tries to explore how states from Europe and Asia have responded to the US-led ‘war on terror’. It argues that the nature of the threat from international terrorism requires states in Europe and Asia to develop a range of external and internal policy responses. Europe has been able to react to this changing …
Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era
The Anglo-American and Israeli-American special relationships have proved to be unusually close and have confounded expectations that they would wither away with the changing international environment. In order to explain this, the article proposes a theory of ‘alliance persistence’ that is based on reciprocity over shared geostrategic interests, sentimental attachments and institutionalised security relations. The article employs this theoretica…
Africa
Africa
The 1957 Sandys white paper
The Federal Republic of Germany
Contending cultures of counterterrorism
Terrorist attacks on the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom have underlined the differing responses of Europe and the United States to the ‘new terrorism’. This article analyses these responses through the prism of historically determined strategic cultures. For the last four years the United States has directed the full resources of a ‘national security’ approach towards this threat and has emphasized unilateralism. Europe, based on its…
Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has expanded from traditional military security issues into countering terrorism, international organized crime and drug trafficking. This has injected new impetus into transatlantic relations to work together on matters such as intelligence sharing and law …
European and Asian responses to the US-led ‘war on terror’
This article seeks to establish a context for the other contributions to this special issue. Using the lens of strategic culture, the article tries to explore how states from Europe and Asia have responded to the US-led ‘war on terror’. It argues that the nature of the threat from international terrorism requires states in Europe and Asia to develop a range of external and internal policy responses. Europe has been able to react to this changing …
The Hague Programme
Jaap W. de Zwaan and Flora A.N.J. Goudappel (eds) Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union. Implementation of the Hague Programme (The Hague: T. M. C Asser Press 2006) Books on the subje
Inside Out
The field of Justice, Liberty and Security has evolved into an important and dynamic policy domain since the early 1990s. An external policy dimension has developed in relation to internal security as the EU has wrestled with a range of transnational threats. This article analyses this external policy dimension and argues that the Union’s response has two facets. First, the EU has sought to impose its model of internal security upon its neighbour…
Securing the Homelands
Since 9/11, internal security co-operation has grown into a major feature of transatlantic relations. This article seeks to appraise both the achievements of the Bush administration in this field and the prospects for President Obama's period of office. Homeland security has been a new and difficult area of co-operation to foster, yet both sides of the Atlantic have come to recognise their shared interests in working together. The article caution…
A Strategic Defence Review
America, Brexit and the security of Europe
The Obama administration played a surprisingly interventionist role in the UK referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), arguing that a vote to leave would damage European security. Yet this article contends that US attitudes towards the EU as a security actor, and the part played within it by the United Kingdom, have been much more complex than the United States has sought to portray. While it has spoken the language of partnership, it…
Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era
The Anglo-American and Israeli-American special relationships have proved to be unusually close and have confounded expectations that they would wither away with the changing international environment. In order to explain this, the article proposes a theory of ‘alliance persistence’ that is based on reciprocity over shared geostrategic interests, sentimental attachments and institutionalised security relations. The article employs this theoretica…
The Anglo-American military relationship
The Anglo-American military relationship is a vital yet neglected area of study. This article argues that the British military have actively cultivated a relationship with the U.S. military that has contributed to the longevity of the broader so-called “Special Relationship,” even in the Trump era. The article contends that the complexities of the military relationship can best be captured by the theoretical lens provided by Lowndes and Roberts t…
America and the special relationship
UK Defence Policy After Ukraine
The 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy signified a major change in United Kingdom’s defence thinking because it identified China as the foremost threat to its long-term security interests. The resulting tilt to the Indo-Pacific region resurrected the prospect of a defence role that the UK had relinquished in the 1960s. Yet the UK can ill-afford to become a significant defence actor in the Indo-Pacific area…
Nuclear divergence between Britain and the United States
This article draws on recently declassified documents on both sides of the Atlantic to reveal the depth of the disagreements between Britain and the United States over adherence to the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty during the 1980s. In the context of the radical Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the Thatcher government feared that the dismissive attitude of the Reagan administration towards the ABM Treaty would undermine the role of arms …
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal
There have been protracted negotiations in Vienna to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or nuclear deal, that Iran signed in 2015 but was suspended by the withdrawal of the United States four years later. This article argues that two factors account for the failure to renew the JCPOA. One is the 2021 change of presidency in Iran from the reformist Hassan Rouhani to the conservative Ebrahim Raisi. The other is the transformed i…
US–UK–France relations amid the Russia–Ukraine war
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the recognition of the rising challenge from China have resulted in a closer alignment of American, British and French strategic interests. This policy paper explores how the strategic relationship between the United States, the United Kingdom and France has evolved amid this changed threat environment. The Russia–Ukraine war exposed the limitations of France's policy of ‘strategic autonomy’ and reasserted the …
The Ukraine war, the indo-pacific and anglo-American Relations
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly impacted Anglo-American relations. It has created a divergence in Anglo-American strategic interests that has been exacerbated by the policies of the second Trump administration. The war between Russia and Ukraine forced the UK to re-focus its attention on the security of the Euro-Atlantic area and assitance for Ukraine. President Trump has affirmed that China will remain America's foremost s…
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