Dr Marcus Faulkner
Department of War Studies
Room K7.27
King’s College London
London
WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2011/12
Areas of interest
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Seapower and Naval History
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Intelligence history
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The National Security State
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The Second World War
Biography
Marcus Faulkner holds a BA in War Studies (2000) from King’s College London and a MA in Politics, Security and Integration from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL (2003). He completed his PhD, entitled ‘Intelligence, Poicy and the Kriegsmarine in the Interwar Period’ in the Department of War Studies, KCL in 2008. He has been teaching in the Department of War Studies since 2005 and has contributed across the spectrum of undergraduate core courses. Currently he convenes the undergraduate intelligence studies module and acts as a tutor on the War Studies Online programme teaching seapower, strategy and contemporary warfare. He has previously lectured at postgraduate level on the origins of national security at Brunel University.
Research
Marcus Faulkner’s research is currently is divided between the history of intelligence organisations and government in the era of the world war’s and the interaction between seapower and national strategy in the twentieth century.
Publications
Based on his PhD research he is writing a monograph on German naval intelligence between 1919-1945 that will serve as the basis for further projects on the use of information in policy and decision-making in and by the Third Reich. He is in the early stages of study dealing with the political, technical and operational principles of naval power projection. He is also co-authoring a book entitled, European Navies and the Conduct of War, with Dr. Alan James and Dr. Carlos Alfaro-Zaforteza (Routledge, 2013) and jointly editing a volume with Michael Clemmesen entitled, Crisis and War in Northern Europe Between Anschluss and Barbarossa – Political and Strategic Responses (2013).
Recent articles include:
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The Kriegsmarine, Signals Intelligence and the Development of the B-Dienst Before the Second World War, Intelligence and National Security 25/4 (2010)
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The Kriegsmarine and the Aircraft Carrier: The Design and Operational Purpose of the Graf Zeppelin, 1933-40 (forthcomingWar in History)
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The Naval Atlas of the Second World War (Seaforth/Naval Institute Press, 2012)