Professor Peter Foot

Academic Dean, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Visiting Professor / Security Sector Reforms
Visiting Senior Mentor / HCSC (2006) Module 9
– Strategic management

Degrees:

Ph.D. History, University of Edinburgh, 1984 [The American Origins of NATO]
M.Litt programme North American Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1977-78
B.A. (Hons) History and English Literature Joint Honours, Council for National Academic Awards, Dorset Institute of Higher Education, United Kingdom 1974-77

Employment history:

Oct. 2007 - Academic Dean, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
2006 - 2007 Head of Training, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
2004 - 2006 Director of Academics, Canadian Forces College
2000 - 2004 Deputy Dean of Academic Studies (External Relations), Defence Studies Department, King’s College, London War Studies Group, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
1997 - 2000 Deputy Dean of Academic Studies (Quality Assurance), Defence Studies Department, King’s College, London War Studies Group, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom
1994 - 1997 Deputy Head of Department, Department of History and International Affairs, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, United Kingdom
1989 - 1994 Principal Lecturer, Department of History and International Affairs, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, United Kingdom
1988 - 1989 Senior Lecturer, Department of History and International Affairs, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, United Kingdom
1984 - 1987 Senior Lecturer, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
1980 - 1984 Senior Ford Foundation Research Fellow, Centre for Defence Studies, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
1966 - 1973 Middle Management in wallcoverings industry, Australia and United Kingdom (Dulux and Sanderson International respectively

Honours:

2003 Baltic Medal for services to the Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia

Scholarly and professional activities (past 7 years only):

1998-2004 Founder Convenor and Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board, CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY JOURNAL, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, George C Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. See http://www.pfpconsortium.org/.

1999-present Member of Curriculum Development Working Group, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, George C Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

2004-present Member, Editorial Board, Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, George C Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, specialising in Religion and Politics, and Human Tafficking Issues.

1997-present Academic Advisor, Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia, as representing the UK Ministry of Defence interests on BALTSEA issues relating to education and security sector reform

2002-present Advisory Board Member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland

2002-present External Examiner, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland

1999-2003 External Examiner, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

2005-present Advisor to Chief of Defence Staff, Canadian Forces on Military Education

2007 Director, International Training Course in Security Policy, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Selected publications:

· ‘National Resources and Civil-Military Cooperation’ in Jean-Jacques de Dardel (ed.), International Security Cooperation: Views and Visions, Swiss Department of External Affairs, 2004.
· ‘European Military Education Today’, Baltic Defence Review, Vol 5, Summer 2001 (also appears in Greg Kennedy (ed.) Military Education: Past, Present and Future, New York Praeger, 2002).
· ‘Britain, European Unity and NATO 1947-1950’ in Francis Heller and John Gillingham (eds.), NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992.
· ‘The End of Eurocentrism and its Consequences’, in Colin McInnes (ed.), Security and Strategy in the New Europe, London: Routledge, 1992.
· ‘America and the Origins of the Atlantic Alliance – a Reappraisal’, in Joseph Smith (ed.), The Origins of NATO, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1990.
· ‘Out of Area: Out of Mind?’, in Geoffrey Till (ed.), The Future of British Sea Power, London: Macmillan 1984
· Essay on NATO’s Out-of-Area Problem in Lawrence Freedman (ed.), The Troubled Alliance, London: Chatham House, 1984.
· 1980-84 Policy Papers for UK MoD and United Nations 1980-84: Burden-Sharing Studies (2); Anti-Nuclear Protest Movements; defence economics Country Studies; extra-European intervention capabilities; etc.