Dr Andrew Corbett

Biography

Andy Corbett is a teaching fellow at the Defence Studies Department. His first career in the Royal Navy submarine service spanned the end of the Cold War and included Command of two Trident submarines, capability management in the MOD and development of 21st century NATO deterrence and defence strategy. He holds a PhD in Defence Studies from King’s College London and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the HEA. 

Research Interests 

• ‘Strategies of influence’ which target societal norms and the ethics and rules-based environment.
• The relationships between the use of force, international institutions and norms and the maintenance of peace and the current international order
• The utility of ‘hard’ power in the 21st Century
• The mechanisms of deterrence and strategic messaging
• Concepts and roles of national interest
• The ethics of conflict
• Nuclear deterrence strategy

Teaching

• MA: Strategy
• MA: The evolution of nuclear strategy
• MA: Understanding deterrence in theory and practice
• MA: Strategy and Artificial Intelligence
• MA: Cyber security and strategy
• MA: Falklands Conflict 1982
• Hacking for Defence/ defence innovation

Publications

Book:

• 2022 Supreme Emergency: How Britain lives with the Bomb. Manchester University Press

Book chapters:

• 2022: “Professional Military Ethics Education” with Prof David Whetham in “Educating in Ethics across the Professions” edited by Prof R Jacobs Villanova University PA. Information Age Publishing (In press publication Oct 2022)
  
  
• 2018 NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence Deficit (chap) in; Vanaga & Rostocks (Eds) Deterring Russia in Europe Abingdon: Routledge

Research articles:

• 2020: Si vis pacem, para bellum atomica; Journal of Military Ethics Dec 2020; vol 19 iss 4
  
  
• 2020: Future Imperfect Revue Défense Nationale no 834 Nov 2020
  
  
• 2019: Acculturation of the Core Concepts of European Security with Dr A Bindenagel-Sehovic, NATO Conference Proceedings ‘Deterrence and Assurance within an Alliance Framework’ Apr 2019

Policy papers

• 2016: Deterring a Nuclear Russia in the 21st Century: NATO Defence College Report 5/16

For more publications please see Dr Andrew Corbett's PURE Profile