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'''Sir Lawrence David Freedman''' is Professor of War Studies at [[King's College London]], a post he has held since 1982. He has recently been appointed Vice-Principal (Research) at King's. He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School and the Universities of Manchester, York and Oxford. Before joining King's he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was elected a Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 1995 and awarded the [[CBE]] in 1996, and is the Official Historian of the [[Falklands Campaign]]. He was awarded the [[KCMG]] in 2003. <ref>[http://www.oussg.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid= Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Before joining King's he held research appointments at [[Nuffield College]] and the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]]. His area of academic expertise is nuclear strategy and the cold war, though he writes regularly on contemporary security issues. The two-volume Official History of the Falklands War was released in 2006. |
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The title of this should be in English, and the parenthetic should be the Dutch. If no one objects, I'm going to move it sometime soon. This is the English Wikipedia after all. --[[User:DanielCD|DanielCD]] 17:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC) |
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:Moved page to English title.--[[User:NeilEvans|NeilEvans]] 18:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC) |
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His principal areas of interest include contemporary defence and foreign policy issues. |
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Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent books include an Adelphi Paper on The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, an edited book on Strategic Coercion, an illustrated book on The Cold War, a collection of essays on British defence policy and Kennedy's Wars that covers the major crises of the early 1960s over Berlin, Cuba and Vietnam. In addition a book on deterrence was published in 2004 and the Official History of the Falklands Campaign was published in the summer of 2005. |
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Freedman's wife Judith is KPMG Professor of Taxation Law and a Fellow of [[Worcester College]] at [[Oxford University]]. They have two children, Sam and Ruth. |
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==Notes== |
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==Selected Papers== |
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*"The Special Relationship, then and now", [http://fullaccess.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85304/lawrence-d-freedman/the-special-relationship-then-and-now.html Foreign Affairs], May/June 2006. |
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The title of this should be in English, and the parenthetic should be the Dutch. If no one objects, I'm going to move it sometime soon. This is the English Wikipedia after all. --DanielCD 17:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- Moved page to English title.--NeilEvans 18:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)