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Doug Stokes (born 1972) is a British academic who is Professor in International Security and Strategy in the Department of Politics at the
University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...
. He was born in 1972 in Hackney, East London. His father was a gardener and sign writer and his mother was a cleaner and secretary. He was educated in London inner city state schools and left home at 17, and Hackney when 25. He completed his degree at
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in 1997, and worked in the still conflict prone town of
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in
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. He returned to full time education in 2000 for his master's degree, and completed his Ph.D. at
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in 2003.


Legacy

He has published a number of books and articles on US foreign policy, grand strategy and world order. His most recent books include an edited volume with Professor Michael Cox (of the
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) entitled ''US foreign policy'' (
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, 2008; 2nd edition 2012; 3rd edition 2018) and ''Energy Security and American Hegemony'' (
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in June 2010). Stokes is currently working on a new book on Transatlantic grand strategy, the ways in which the US can help stymie decline and the implications of US strategic retrenchment for European security. He is a senior research associate of Exeter's Strategy and Security Institute, member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).


Works

* Stokes D (2001). Better lead than bread? a Critical Analysis of the US’s Plan Colombia. Civil Wars, 2, 59-78. * Stokes D (2003). Why the end of the Cold War doesn't matter: the US war of terror in Colombia. Review of International Studies, 29(4), 569-585+464. Abstract. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 12 * Stokes D (2003). Countering the Soviet Threat? an Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador from 1979–1992. Cold War History, 3, 79-102. * Stokes D (2005). The Heart of Empire? Theorizing US Empire in an Era of Transnational Capitalism. Third World Quarterly: journal of emerging areas, 2, 227-246. * Stokes D (2005). America's Other War., Zed Books. Abstract. * Stokes D (2006). Iron Fists in Iron Gloves: the Political Economy of US Terrorocracy Promotion in Colombia. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 368-387. * Stokes D (2007). Blood for Oil? Global Capital, Counter-Insurgency and the Dual Logic of American Energy Security. Review of International Studies, 2, 245-264. * Stokes D (2008). Beyond Geo-strategy and Solidarism. In Coicaud J-M, Wheeler NJ (Eds.) National interest and international solidarity, United Nations Univ. Abstract. * Stokes D (2009). The war gamble: Understanding US interests in Iraq. Globalizations, 6(1), 107-112. Abstract. DOI. * Stokes D (2009). New Directions in US Foreign Policy. In Parmar I (Ed) New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Taylor & Francis. Abstract. * Stokes D (2009). Ideas and Avocados: Ontologising Critical Terrorism Studies’. International Relations Journal * Stokes D, Raphael S (2010). Global Energy Security and American Hegemony., Johns Hopkins University Press. Abstract. * Kiersey NJ, Stokes D (2010). Foucault and International Relations., Routledge. Abstract. * Stokes D, Raphael S (2011). Globalizing West African oil: US ‘energy security’ and the global economy. International Affairs, 87(4), 903-921. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 27 * Stokes D, Herring E (2011). Critical Realism and Historical Materialism as Resources for Critical Terrorism Studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4(1), 5-21. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 1 * Stokes D, Gowan P (2012). The US in the Global Economy. In Stokes D, Cox M (Eds.) US Foreign Policy. * Stokes D, Raphael S (2012). Energy Security in the Age of Terror. In Collins A (Ed) Contemporary Security Studies, OUP Oxford. Abstract. * Stokes D, Whitman R (2013). Transatlantic Triage? European and UK ‘Grand Strategy’ after the US Rebalance to Asia. International Affairs * Stokes D (2013). Goodbye America?: Transatlantic Grand Strategy after the Financial Crisis. RUSI Journal, 158(4), 70-75. Abstract. DOI. * Stokes D, Raphael S (2014). US Oil Strategy in the Caspian Basin: Hegemony through interdependence. International Relations Journal * Stokes D, Newton P (2014). Bridging the Gulf? America's 'Pivot' and the Middle East Challenge it Poses for the UK's Strategic Defence and Security Review. RUSI Journal * Stokes D (2014). Achilles’ deal: Dollar decline and US grand strategy after the crisis. Review of International Political Economy, 21(5), 1071-1094. Abstract. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 2 * Stokes D, Waterman K (2017). Security leverage, structural power and US strategy in east Asia. International Affairs, 93(5), 1039-1060. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 17 * Stokes D, Waterman K (2017). Beyond balancing? Intrastate conflict and US grand strategy. Journal of Strategic Studies, 41(6), 824-849. DOI. * Cox M, Stokes D (2018). US foreign policy., Oxford University Press, USA. Abstract. * Stansfield G, Stokes D, Kelly S (2018). UK strategy in the gulf and middle east after American retrenchment. Insight Turkey, 20(4), 231-247. Abstract. DOI. * Stokes D (2018). Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 94(1), 133-+. Author URL. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 21 * Stokes D (2018). The Sneer of Cold Command’: Trump, American Hegemony and the Future of the Liberal International Order. International Affairs, 94, 133-150. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 21 * Ikenberry GJ, Parmar I, Stokes D (2018). Introduction: Ordering the world? Liberal internationalism in theory and practice. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 94(1), 1-5. Author URL. DOI. Article has an altmetric score of 55 * Stokes D (2022). Energy Security. In Collins A (Ed) Contemporary Security Studies: 6th Edition, Oxford University Press. * Stokes D (2023). Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West. Oxford, Polity Press.


References


External links


University of Exeter Doug Stokes entry

Doug Stokes at Substack

Works by Doug Stokes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stokes, Doug 1972 births Living people Alumni of the University of London Alumni of the University of Bristol Academics of Aberystwyth University Academics of the University of Exeter Academics of the University of Kent