Prof Phillips O'Brien

Head of the School of International Relations

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1923

Email

ppo@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Jenny Elizabeth Oberholtzer
• Anneleen Van Der Meer
• Stephen Campbell
• Daniel Roberts
• Mark Bhaskar
• Ik Joon Min

Selected publications

• Open access

  Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: a review essay

  Hughes, J., Kornberger, M., O'Brien, P., Mackay, B. & Reddy, S., 16 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Strategic Studies. Latest Articles, 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Invisible hand

  O'Brien, P. P., Feb 2020, In: American History. 54, 6, p. 35-41 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the atom bomb, the American military mind and the end of the Second World War

  O'Brien, P. P., 2020, In: Journal of Strategic Studies. 42, 7, p. 971-991

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The second most powerful man in the world: the life of Admiral William D Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

  O'Brien, P. P., 7 May 2019, New York: Dutton. 531 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• How the war was won: air-sea power and Allied victory in World War II

  O'Brien, P. P., Feb 2015, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 640 p. (Cambridge military histories)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Logistics by land and air

  O'Brien, P. P., 2015, Cambridge History of the Second World War. Mawdsley, E. & Ferris, J. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. I. p. 608-636 29 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The American press, public, and the reaction to the outbreak of the first world war

  O'Brien, P. P., 1 Jun 2013, In: Diplomatic History. 37, 3, p. 446-475 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Herbert Hoover, Anglo-American relations and republican party politics in the 1920s

  O'Brien, P. P., 1 Jun 2011, In: Diplomacy and Statecraft. 22, 2, p. 200-218 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The 1910 elections and the primacy of foreign policy

  O'Brien, P. P., 20 Oct 2010, The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain. Palgrave Macmillan , p. 249-259 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Britain and the end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

  O'Brien, P. P., 24 Dec 2003, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922. RoutledgeCurzon Taylor & Francis Group, p. 264-284 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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