J E Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 87725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission
In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC ) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC . The Commission published 1586 de‐identified narratives online, of which 485 focused on the theme of housing. The D…
Kennan: A life between worlds
Journal Article Kennan: a life between worlds Get access Kennan: a life between worlds. By Frank Costigliola. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2023. 648pp. £35.00. Isbn978 0 69116 540 0. Available as e-book. J E Spence J E Spence King's College London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 888–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae034 Publi…
As we were: The First World War; tales from a broken world, week-by-week. Four volumes
Journal Article As we were: the First World War; tales from a broken world, week-by-week. Four volumes Get access As we were: the First World War; tales from a broken world, week-by-week. Four volumes. By David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O'Keefe. London: whitefox Publishing. 2021. 2,288pp. £100.00. Isbn978 1 91353 236 9. J E Spence J E Spence King's College London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar In…
Total onslaught: War and revolution in southern Africa since 1945
Paul Moorcraft is that rara avis, a former academic cum journalist with over 50 years of experience and a record of incisive commentary on several of the world's trouble spots including southern Africa, the subject of his most recent book. Moorcraft's understanding of this particular region is impressive, no easy task given that his analysis explores the impact of war, revolution and political change in some ten countries. This is a massive under…
Famous battles and how they shaped the modern world, c. 1200 Bc –1302 Ad: From Troy to Courtrai
A historical sensibility: Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute of Strategic Studies, 1958–2019
This edited volume of selected papers and other writings by the late Sir Michael Howard, produced by The International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), was available as a ‘celebration of his life and work’ at the memorial service held at King's College London in November 2019 (p. 7). The venue was entirely appropriate, as it was there that Sir Michael was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of History in 1954, followed by an indepe…
The Royal College of Defence Studies 1927–2017: Ninety years of preparing strategic leaders
Better an educated soldiery than ‘a rapacious and licentious one’. This gloss on Edmund Burke's 1783 admonition might seem a fitting definition of the role of the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) both in the evolution of military doctrine and as a clear demonstration of British soft power at its best. Established in 1927 as the Imperial Defence College, it became the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1972, having moved to an elegant, fre…
Michael Oakeshott's political philosophy of International Relations: Civil association and international society
‘In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea: there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy: and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behaviour in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.’ Thus Michael Oakeshott's famous and compe…
Pandora's box: A history of the First World War
The photograph on the cover of this fine study depicts a cavalryman astride his horse, carrying a lance in his hand, a rifle on his back and with a gas mask over his face. This picture neatly epitomizes a major theme of the book—the mixture of old and new military technologies in use during the First World War. It also suggests the steep learning curve forced on both generals and politicians in the seemingly endless search for new strategies and …
Naked diplomacy: Power and statecraft in the digital age and The future of #diplomacy
The late Kenneth Younger, Minister of State at the Foreign Office and Director of Chatham House, once perceptively remarked that British foreign policy-makers had a degree of latitude, as they were insulated to a significant degree from public criticism, provided decisions were kept within the bounds of a reasonably wide spectrum of options. At that time, ministers and their official advisers were seemingly able to draw a pragmatic distinction be…
Before anarchy: Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought. By Theodore Christov
This ambitious study of thes impact of Thomas Hobbes's writings on international theory has much to commend it, in terms of both scope and substance. Theodore Christov is primarily concerned to challenge the ‘common assumption that has come to dominate the theory and practice of statehood: that the spheres of the domestic and the foreign are fundamentally distinct from each other’. What is seen to be their ‘radically binary nature’ remains uncont…
The question of intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect. By Michael W. Doyle; Failed statebuilding: intervention, the state, and the dynamics of peace formation. By Oliver P. …
Both these books have important things to say about two highly contested topics in the current International Relations literature: intervention and statebuilding. Both are written by scholars with well-established reputations; each is formidably well researched and closely argued, offering an impressive critique of the conventional wisdom. Michael Doyle's study is a fine example of classical international theory at its best, with the author engag…
The Cambridge history of the First World War
This massive study has been produced under the editorship of Professor Jay Winter of Yale University and the Editorial Committee of the International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, Somme. It attempts a new interpretation of the First World War, based on its transnational and global impact. Some 43 contributions by a ‘transnational’ group of scholars provide a detailed and convincing account of the war, going well b…
Does Morality Matter in Security Policy?: An Exchange
Editor's NoteIn this exchange, Jack Spence comments on David Fisher's essay on morality which appeared in the June–July 2013 issue of Survival. Fisher's response follows.David Fisher's analysis of
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood: The Obi Igwara Special Memorial Event to mark 50 Years of Decolonization in Africa, 1960–2010
Open Secrets Questionably Arrived At: The Impact of Wikileaks on Diplomacy
South Africa: An African exception or just another country
Point Man’ on Zimbabwe: South Africa's Role in the Crisis
The continuing crisis over Zimbabwe raises a variety of issues of considerable interest to both the theorist and the practitioner of foreign policy: the merits or otherwise of contemporary attempts at state classification; the utility and morality of intervention in a state's internal affairs by economic or military means; the notion of hegemony; the assumptions underpinning African diplomacy; the incentives and constraints attendant on South Afr…
Zimbabwe: Future imperfect
A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927
A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920–1927 Jonathan Spence Jonathan Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 482, June 2004, Pages 736–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.482.736 Published: 01 June 2004
Second Chance for the ANC: The 1999 South African General Election
On 2 june 1999 south africans went to the polls in the country's second democratic election. At issue in the electoral debate were: the government's mixed record of achievement since the first contest in April 1994; the prospect of significant improvement in economic performance and the promised delivery of social goods to the deprived black majority; the personality and capability of Thabo Mbeki, President Mandela's chosen successor; and the imp…
Violence in Southern Africa
International action against racial discrimination
Journal Article International action against racial discrimination Get access International action against racial discrimination. By Michael Banton. Oxford: Clarendon. 1996. 362pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 19 828961 0. J. E. Spence J. E. Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 557, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624282 Published: 01 July 1997
Opposition in South Africa
A STRIKING FEATURE OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘NEW’ SOUTH Africa following the first democratic election in April 1994 was the widespread expectation that both the mechanism of transition and the electoral outcome in coalition government (the Government of National Unity: GNU) might serve as a model to other African regimes similarly placed. This may well be true with respect, for example, to the relevance of power-sharing arrangements of the kind t…
Introduction and overview
Journal Article Introduction and overview Get access J. E. Spence J. E. Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 439–443, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625549 Published: 01 July 1996
Institutionalizing Neighborhood Courts: Two Chilean Experiences
The convergence of the forces of national competition among ideologically diverse political parties with the development of a squatter settlement movement brought the issue of neighborhood courts to national attention. In the face of Congressional stalemate over a national decentralization, two local experiments emerged, one employing professional judges holding regular informal hearings beyond their normal judicial duties for poor urban resident…
Opposition in South Africa
A STRIKING FEATURE OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘NEW’ SOUTH Africa following the first democratic election in April 1994 was the widespread expectation that both the mechanism of transition and the electoral outcome in coalition government (the Government of National Unity: GNU) might serve as a model to other African regimes similarly placed. This may well be true with respect, for example, to the relevance of power-sharing arrangements of the kind t…
British Policy Towards the High Commission Territories
The accusation that Britain neglected the three High Commission territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, especially during the inter-war period, is a common one, both in standard works on the subject and in current controversies over their future. It has been alleged that an important reason for this neglect was the assumption made by successive British governments that their future status was uncertain, particularly in view of Sou…
Everybody has Won, So All Must Have Prizes: Reflections on the South African General Election
For South Africa 1994 was an Annus Mirabilis. Despite pre-election predictions of violent disruption, the country's first democratic general election took place in an atmosphere of reconciliation and hope for a future in which past injustice would be rectified and the ‘new South Africa’ welcomed back into the international community. For a brief moment — and, of course, it might not last as the inevitable constraints imposed by scarce resources, …
The Strategic Significance of Southern Africa
Point Man’ on Zimbabwe: South Africa's Role in the Crisis
The continuing crisis over Zimbabwe raises a variety of issues of considerable interest to both the theorist and the practitioner of foreign policy: the merits or otherwise of contemporary attempts at state classification; the utility and morality of intervention in a state's internal affairs by economic or military means; the notion of hegemony; the assumptions underpinning African diplomacy; the incentives and constraints attendant on South Afr…
Southern Africa's uncertain future: Adjusting to a new balance of power
The Origins of Extra‐Parliamentary Opposition in South Africa
There is cause for grave concern that South Africa has thus far been unable to develop any significant party, aggressively committed to a liberal solution of the racial problems.’ These words, written in 1956, by a distinguished South African historian, imply an important truth about South African politics, namely the extent to which the crucial issues of race relations have become, over five decades, interlocked with disputes between the two whi…
South Africa: The Nuclear Option
Journal Article SOUTH AFRICA: THE NUCLEAR OPTION Get access J. E. SPENCE J. E. SPENCE Professor Spence is Professor of Politics at Leicester University. This article is a revised and expanded version of a contribution to the Report (Vol. 2, No. 4, Oct./Nov. 1980) of the Armament and Disarmament Information Unit of the University of Sussex. The author is grateful to Mr Harry Dean, Senior Information Officer of the Unit, for permission to publish m…
The implications of the Rhodesia issue for the former high commission territories
Kennan: A life between worlds
Journal Article Kennan: a life between worlds Get access Kennan: a life between worlds. By Frank Costigliola. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2023. 648pp. £35.00. Isbn978 0 69116 540 0. Available as e-book. J E Spence J E Spence King's College London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 888–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae034 Publi…
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood: The Obi Igwara Special Memorial Event to mark 50 Years of Decolonization in Africa, 1960–2010
Open Secrets Questionably Arrived At: The Impact of Wikileaks on Diplomacy
South Africa: An African exception or just another country
International action against racial discrimination
Journal Article International action against racial discrimination Get access International action against racial discrimination. By Michael Banton. Oxford: Clarendon. 1996. 362pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 19 828961 0. J. E. Spence J. E. Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 557, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624282 Published: 01 July 1997
South Africa in Transition
Entering the future backwards: Some reflections on the current international scene
The relevance of history The title of this essay may sound odd, if not inexplicable. ‘Entering the future backwards’ —the quotation comes from the French poet, Paul Valery and it seems to me to have utility in this context in both a theoretical and practical mode. Theoretical, because the term reminds us that as scholars and teachers we have an obligation when we reflect upon a confused and alarming present to think historically, i.e., to ask our…
Detente in Southern Africa: An Interim Judgment
South Africa and the Defence of the west: Liability or asset to the free world
O constant and repeatedly emphasized theme in the formulation and conduct of South Africa's foreign policy during the 1960s has been the assertion of the vital contribution its government and people are capable of making to the defence of Western interests in the global struggle to contain the spread of Communism. This claim has been justified on a variety of political, economic and strategic grounds and the Western power's unwillingness to do mo…
The New States of Southern Africa
A Year has elapsed since the granting of independence to Basutoland and Bechuanaland and, on an academic level at least, there appears to be no slackening of interest in the problems besetting the new states of Lesotho and Botswana and the remaining territory of Swaziland which is due to receive independence in 1968. Each of the books considered here contributes in varying degree to our understanding of their prospects in an environment in which …
Republic under Pressure. A Study of South African Foreign Policy
Politics and Law in South Africa
Tradition and change in South African foreign policy 1
The Political Implications of the Bantustan Policy
A New Roman Site in Cumberland
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Recent Trends in South Africa
Journal Article Recent Trends in South Africa Get access J. E. SPENCE J. E. SPENCE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 235, April 1960, Pages 136–143, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094719 Published: 01 April 1960
Tradition and change in South African foreign policy 1
The Political Implications of the Bantustan Policy
The Nyasaland Elections of 1961
Politics and Law in South Africa
British Policy Towards the High Commission Territories
The accusation that Britain neglected the three High Commission territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland, especially during the inter-war period, is a common one, both in standard works on the subject and in current controversies over their future. It has been alleged that an important reason for this neglect was the assumption made by successive British governments that their future status was uncertain, particularly in view of Sou…
The Origins of Extra‐Parliamentary Opposition in South Africa
There is cause for grave concern that South Africa has thus far been unable to develop any significant party, aggressively committed to a liberal solution of the racial problems.’ These words, written in 1956, by a distinguished South African historian, imply an important truth about South African politics, namely the extent to which the crucial issues of race relations have become, over five decades, interlocked with disputes between the two whi…
Republic under Pressure. A Study of South African Foreign Policy
The Two Faces of Apartheid, An African Bourgeoisie: Race, Class, and Politics in South Africa and White Laager: The Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism
Journal Article The Two Faces of Apartheid, An African Bourgeoisie: Race, Class, and Politics in South Africa and White Laager: The Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism Get access The Two Faces of Apartheid. By Paul Giniewski. Foreword by Clarence B. Randall. Chicago: Regnery. 1965. 373 pp. $5.95.product>.An African Bourgeoisie: Race, Class, and Politics in South Africa. By Leo Kuper. New Haven, London: Yale University Press. 1965. 452 pp. Bibliog. Inde…
The New States of Southern Africa
A Year has elapsed since the granting of independence to Basutoland and Bechuanaland and, on an academic level at least, there appears to be no slackening of interest in the problems besetting the new states of Lesotho and Botswana and the remaining territory of Swaziland which is due to receive independence in 1968. Each of the books considered here contributes in varying degree to our understanding of their prospects in an environment in which …
White Africa
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The implications of the Rhodesia issue for the former high commission territories
South Africa and the defence of the west: The Round Table (London) January 1971
South Africa and the Defence of the west: Liability or asset to the free world
O constant and repeatedly emphasized theme in the formulation and conduct of South Africa's foreign policy during the 1960s has been the assertion of the vital contribution its government and people are capable of making to the defence of Western interests in the global struggle to contain the spread of Communism. This claim has been justified on a variety of political, economic and strategic grounds and the Western power's unwillingness to do mo…
South Africa and the World. The Foreign Policy of Apartheid
Journal Article South Africa and the World. The Foreign Policy of Apartheid Get access South Africa and the World. The Foreign Policy of Apartheid. By Amry Vandenbosch. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1970. 303 pp. Bibliog. Index. $8.50. J. E. Spence J. E. Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 1971, Pages 849–851, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625745 …
The Strategic Significance of Southern Africa
A Federation of Southern Africa
Journal Article A Federation of Southern Africa Get access A Federation of Southern Africa. By Leo Marquard. London, Cape Town, Johannesburg: Oxford University Press. 1971. 142 pp. Maps. Index. £2.00. J. E. Spence J. E. Spence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 3, July 1972, Pages 519–520, https://doi.org/10.2307/2612771 Published: 01 July 1972
Plus ça change
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China and Africa 1949–1970: The foregin policy of the People's Republic of China
Journal Article China and Africa 1949–1970: the foregin policy of the People's Republic of China Get access China and Africa 1949–1970: the foregin policy of the People's Republic of China, by Bruce D. Larkin. California UP, 1971. 268pp. £4·05. J. E. SPENCE J. E. SPENCE University College of Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 285, October 1972, Page 453, https://doi.o…
Africa and the World and Soviet Policy Toward Black Africa: The Focus on National Integration
Africa and the World and Soviet Policy Toward Black Africa: The Focus on National Integration Get access Africa and the World. Ed. by Robert K. A. Gardiner, M. J. Anstee and C. L. Patterson. Addis Ababa, London: Oxford University Press. 1970–72. 255 pp. (A Halle Selassie I Prize Trust Symposium) £1.70.Soviet Policy Toward Black Africa: The Focus on National Integration. By Helen Desfosses Cohn. Foreword by John N. Hazard. New York, Washington: Pr…
Southern Africa's uncertain future: Adjusting to a new balance of power
South Africa in Africa: A study in ideology and foreign policy
Journal Article South Africa in Africa: A study in ideology and foreign policy Get access South Africa in Africa: A study in ideology and foreign policy. By Sam C. Nolutshungu. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1975. 329 pp. £6.50. J. E. Spence J. E. Spence 1University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1976, Pages 493–494, https://doi.org/10…
Scenarios for South Africa: Coming to grips with the problem of coping with apartheid
How Long Will South Africa Survive? R. W. Johnson. Macmillan. 1977. £3.95
Detente in Southern Africa: An Interim Judgment
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