Tom Dyson

Dr Tom Dyson is a Reader in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Dr Dyson’s research interests lie primarily in military learning and the sources of military adaptation, innovation and emulation. He has published scholarship on European defence cooperation and on the defence reforms of several NATO member-states/partner-states including Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine, and the United States. His research has been funded by the Alexander von Humbdolt Foundation, ESRC, Gerda Henkel Foundation and German Academic Exchange Services. He is presently PI for an ESRC grant (ES/V004190/1) examining organisational learning during military operations and training exercises which is being undertaken in cooperation with the Estonian Defence Forces, Portuguese Army and Royal Netherlands Army.

Dr Dyson is the author of The Politics of German Defence and Security (2007), Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in post-Cold War Europe (2010), European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory (2013, with Professor Theodore Konstadinides) and Organisational Learning and the Modern Army (2019). He is also the co-editor of Precision-strike Warfare and International Intervention (2014). Dr Dyson has published articles in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Contemporary British History, Contemporary Security Policy, Defence Studies, European Law Review, European Security, German Politics, and Security Studies.