Prof Sibylle Scheipers

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2944

Email

ss203@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Yifan Hu
• Ben Stumpf
• Hananah Zarrar

Selected publications

• Open access

  Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s career as a colonial officer: learning the 'colonial way of war'?

  Scheipers, S., 20 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Latest Articles, p. 1-24 24 p.

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

• Open access

  Small war as global war: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s campaign in German East Africa, 1914-1918

  Scheipers, S., 29 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The International History Review. Latest Articles, 15 p.

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

• Strachan on Clausewitz: setting standards for research and study

  Scheipers, S., 7 Dec 2020, In: War in History. 27, 4, p. 560-574 15 p.

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

• Open access

  'Do not despair at your fate': Carl von Clausewitz in French captivity, 1806-1807

  Scheipers, S., 27 May 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: War in History. OnlineFirst, 20 p.

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

• On small war: Carl von Clausewitz and people's war

  Scheipers, S., 22 Feb 2018, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 192 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Irregular auxiliaries after 1945

  Scheipers, S., 2017, In: The International History Review. 39, 1, p. 14-29

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

• Open access

  'The most beautiful of wars': Carl von Clausewitz and small wars

  Scheipers, S., Feb 2017, In: European Journal of International Security. 2, 1, p. 47-63

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

• 'The Most Beautiful of Wars': Carl von Clausewitz and Moral Victories

  Scheipers, S., 2017, (Accepted/In press) Moral Victories. O'Driscoll, C., Hom, A. & Mills, K. (eds.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access

  Moral force in war: Clausewitz and hybrid warfare

  Scheipers, S., 27 Oct 2016, After 'Hybrid' Warfare, What Next?: Understanding and Responding to Contemporary Russia. Renz, B. & Smith, H. (eds.). Prime Minister's Office, Finland, Vol. 44/2016. p. 11-13 (Publications of the Government's analysis, assessment and research activities ).

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

• Open access

  Winning wars without battles: hybrid warfare and other 'indirect' approaches in the history of strategic thought

  Scheipers, S., 2016, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland: Kikimora Publications , p. 47-51, (Aleksanteri Papers ; vol. 1/2016).

  Research output: Working paper

 

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