Christopher M. Bell

Associate Professor

On Sabbatical - Returning July, 2010

Office: 3172 McCain Arts & Social Science Building Office Hours: Email: bellcm@dal.ca Tel: 902-494-3586 (v) 902-494-3349 (fax)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Modern Britain, Europe, International Relations, Military & Naval history

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Books

Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective, edited with Bruce A. Elleman. London: Frank Cass, 2003.

The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars. Stanford: Stanford University Press/ London: Macmillan (in association with King's College London), 2000.

Chapters in Books

"Mutiny and the Royal Canadian Navy", in The Unwilling and the Reluctant: Perspectives on Military Disobedience in the Canadian Forces, ed. Craig Mantle, Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2006, vol. I, pp. 87-112.

"The Royal Navy, War Planning and Intelligence Assessments of Japan between the Wars" in Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society, ed. Peter Jackson and Jennifer Siegel, Westport, CN: Praeger, 2005, pp. 139-55.

"Winston Churchill, Pacific Security, and the Limits of British Power, 1921-41", in Churchill and Strategic Dilemmas before the World Wars, John H. Maurer (ed.), London: Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 51-87.

"The Invergordon Mutiny, 1931", in Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective, ed. Christopher M. Bell and Bruce Elleman (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

"Naval Mutinies in the Twentieth Century and Beyond" (with Bruce Elleman), in Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective, ed. Christopher M. Bell and Bruce Elleman (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

Articles

"Winston Churchill and the Ten Year Rule", Journal of Military History, vol. 74, no. 4 (forthcoming, 2010).

'The King's English and the Security of the Empire:  Class, Social Mobility, and Democratization in the British Naval Officer Corps, 1918-1939', Journal of British Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (July 2009), 695-716.

"The Royal Navy and the Lessons of the Invergordon Mutiny", War in History, vol. 12, no. 1 (January 2005), pp. 75-92.

The ‘Singapore Strategy' and the Deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty, and the Dispatch of Force Z", English Historical Review, vol. 116, issue 467 (June 2001) pp. 604-34; reprinted in The Second World War, vol. VII, Alliance Politics and Grand Strategy, ed. Jeremy Black, Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp.107-37. 

"Thinking the Unthinkable: British and American Naval Strategies for an Anglo-American War, 1918-31", International History Review, vol. XIX, no. 4 (November 1997) pp. 789-808.

‘"How are we going to make war?": Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond and British Far Eastern War Plans', Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 1997) pp. 123-41; reprinted in Naval History, 1850–Present, ed. Andrew Lambert, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, vol. II, pp. 27-45.

"‘Our Most Exposed Outpost': Hong Kong and British Far Eastern Strategy", Journal of Military History, vol. 60, no. 1 (January 1996) pp. 61-88.

Other Scholarly Publications

"Prisoners of War" and "Naval Prisons": entries in Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, ed. John B. Hattendorf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), vol. 3, pp. 372-8, 378-81.

ONGOING RESEARCH

Winston Churchill and British Sea Power, 1910-1955

COURSES OFFERED 2008 - 2009