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 2 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 he is a Fellow of the HEA.

Research Interests 

• The utility of ‘hard’ power in the 21st Century
• The relationships between the use of force, international institutions and the maintenance of peace and the current international order
• The mechanisms of deterrence and strategic messaging
• Concepts and roles of national interest
• Nuclear deterrence strategy

Teaching

• MA Special Subject; The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
• Hacking for Defence/ MOD

Publications

• 2019: Acculturation of the Core Concepts of European Security (with A Bindenagel-Sehovic), NATO Science & Technology Organization
• 2018: NATO’s Nuclear Deterrence Deficit (chap) in; Vanaga & Rostocks (Eds) Deterring Russia in Europe Abingdon: Routledge
• 2016:  Deterring a Nuclear Russia in the 21st Century:  NATO Defence College Report 5/16

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