Geoffrey Sloan

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Associate Professor
Recruitment of MA students for all the postgraduate taught courses run by the Department
Areas of interest
- Strategic studies, the development of geopolitical theory in the twentieth century
- The role and function of intelligence as the "missing dimension" in international politics
- The history and role of military doctrine and its relation to combat effectiveness
Research centres and groups
United Kingdom Co-ordinator, The Mackinder Forum
Academic qualifications
BA (Hons), PhD, PGCE (Keele)Selected publications
Unpublished papers
- Brititsh Command Doctrine, Command Philosophy and the Generation of Fighting Power
- Haldane's Mackindergarten: A Radical Experiment in Military Education
Publications
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Heuser, B.
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Payne, K.
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Mahnken, T.
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Potter, A.
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Sloan, G.
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Johnson, J.
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White, K.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8130-3526 , Hoffman, F. (2020) Remembering Colin Gray. Texas National Security Review ISSN: 2576-1153
- Sloan, G. (2020) Sir Halford Mackinder’s democratic ideals and reality: A centennial appreciation. Orbis , 64 (1). pp. 4-23. ISSN: 0030-4387 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orbis.2019.12.002
- Sloan, G. (2019) The Royal Navy and organizational learning — the western approaches tactical unit and the Battle of the Atlantic. Naval War College Review , 72 (4). ISSN: 0028-1484
- Sloan, G. (2018) Hide seek and negotiate: Alfred Cope and counter intelligence in Ireland 1919–1921. Intelligence and National Security , 33 (2). pp. 176-195. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2017.1329118
- Sloan, G. (2017) Geopolitics, geography and strategic history. Geopolitical Theory Routledge , Abingdon, UK. pp 272. ISBN: 9780714653488
- Sloan, G. (2013) The British state and the Irish rebellion of 1916: an intelligence failure or an failure of response. Intelligence and National Security , 28 (4). pp. 453-494. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2012.735079
- Sloan, G. (2012) Military doctrine, command philosophy and the generation of fighting power: genesis and theory. International Affairs , 88 (2). pp. 243-263. ISSN: 1468-2346
- Sloan, G. (2012) Haldane's Mackindergarten: a radical experiment in British military education. War in History , 19 (3). pp. 322-352. ISSN: 1477-0385 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344512440399
- Gray, C. , Bath, M. , Sloan, G. , Walton, C. (2009) The Royal Navy and British security in the twenty-first century: The short game and the long game. The Naval Review , 97 (3). pp. 223-228.
- Sloan, G. (2007) Dartmouth, Sir Mansfield Cumming and the origins of the British Intelligence community. Intelligence and National Security , 22 (2). pp. 298-305. ISSN: 1743-9019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520701303907
- Sloan, G. (2007) Ireland and the geopolitics of Anglo-Irish relations. Irish Studies Review , 15 (2). pp. 163-179. ISSN: 1469-9303 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670880701284759