Research

Research interests

• French and British foreign and Defence Policy, from 1898 to the present day.
• French and British Imperial History
• Naval History
• History of Geopolitics
• History of International Relations.

Work in progress

• Inventing Geopolitics ?: Mackinder's Strategic Thought (Monograph in preparation).
• La France et la Guerre des Boers. Research Project in collaboration with Professor Richard Tholoniat (Université du Maine, Le Mans).
• Franco-British Relations and the Entente Cordiale, 1898-1914.
• The French and British Navies and Imperial Defence, 1890-1914 (Articles).

Conference and seminar organisation

• Co-Organiser with John Keiger, Refocusing on Europe? International Relations from the Entente Cordiale to the Outbreak of the First World War, 1904-1914, International Conference, 28-30 March 2004, Europeans Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Manchester.
• Seminar Series on Franco-British Relations from Fashoda to Dunkirk, 1898-1940. University of Salford, April-June 1997. Sponsored by the French Embassy in London.
• Co-organiser with Martin Alexander, Martin Evans and John Keiger, International conference on The Algerian War and the French Army: Experience, Image and Memory, University of Salford, October 1996. > Conference Proceedings