Peter Jackson (8) (1964–)
Author of Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: Journeys in Shadows (Studies in Intelligence)
For other authors named Peter Jackson, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Peter Jackson is Lecturer in International History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Works by Peter Jackson
Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: Journeys in Shadows (Studies in Intelligence) (2004) 12 copies
Beyond the Balance of Power: France And The Politics Of National Security In The Era Of The First World War (2013) 6 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Jackson, Peter Darron
- Birthdate
- 1964
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Université de Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (Ph.D. ∙ Histoire ∙ 19 91 | 19 95)
University de Calgary, Canada
Université de Carleton Ottawa, Canada - Organizations
- University of Glasgow, Royaume-Uni (Chaire Global Security ∙ History Department, 20 131 | )
Université de Strathclyde (Professeur, Histoire, 20 11 | 20 13)
Université d'Aberystwyth (Chargé de cours, Histoire internationale et études du renseignement, 19 98 | 20 11)
Royal Society of Edinburgh (Membre)
Royal Historical Society (Membre)
Institut de sciences politiques, Paris (Professeur invité, 20 12|20 13 (show all 8)
Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Professeur invité, 20 17|20 18
Intelligence and National Security, REvue (Editeur, 20 04 | 20 15) - Short biography
- [from Understanding Insurgencies website]
Peter Jackson holds the Chair in Global Security at the University of Glasgow. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Before taking up his chair at Glasgow, he taught at Carleton University, Yale University, Aberystwyth University and the University of Strathclyde. During the 2012-2013 academic year he was Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of intelligence, security and policy-making. Jackson's most recent monograph is Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is now writing history of intelligence and the state since 1789. - Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Canada
- Map Location
- Royaume-Uni
- Associated Place (for map)
- Canada
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This is a really excellent study that coordinates the ebb and flow of French politics with the estimates of the German military threat by the officials responsible for intelligence work through the 1930s. What is most significant to Jackson is not the threat analysis of the French military, which was usually bleak, but the realities of the French political situation to which the assorted French governments had to respond. If there is a particular irony in all this it's that the nadir of show more French morale after the Munich accord rapidly turned around into conditional optimism, as the French leadership at that moment resolved to take action, if for no other reason that the only other option was abject submission to Hitler's hegemonic aims. If nothing else the lesson here is in terms of the limitations of intelligence as a factor of decision and the admission that there are times when one simply has no good options, and the French in the 1930s certainly didn't; not when confronted by a state bent on war almost for its own sake. show less
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