Laurence Martin
Laurence Woodward Martin (born 30 July 1928) is British academic and strategist. He has Michael Howard's successor at the Department of War Studies at Kings College London, and has been involved in a number of influential foreign policy think-tanks.
Education and Academia
Martin went to St Austell Grammar School and then Christ’s College, Cambridge. In 1955 he joined Yale University as an instructor and a year later was appointed Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1961 where he worked as an assistant professor until 1964. [1]
In 1964 Martin returned to Britain to take up a post as Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales. [2] During this time the terrorologist Paul Wilkinson was also a politics professor at the University, although according to the University of Cardiff, Martin was based in Aberystwyth whilst Wilkinson was in Cardiff. [3]
In 1968 Martin was offered a post as position as Chichele Chair of the History of War at All Souls. The post was made available after the Ministry of Defence had provided five years funding as part of a propaganda initiative by the Defence Secretary Denis Healey. [4] Martin turned down the offer which was taken up by Michael Howard who was professor of War Studies at Kings College London. [5] Martin then took up Howard's post, which he held until 1977. He was appointed a fellow of Kings College in 1983. [6]
Think-tanks and the policy world
Martin has been involved in US strategic think-tanks since the 1960s. In 1964 he was appointed a Research Associate at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research. The think-tank had been established by Paul Nitze, a 'Cold Warrior' who had also founded the School of Advanced International Studies where Martin was working prior to his appointment. Later, in 1969 Martin was appointed as a member of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University (then known as the Georgetown Center of Strategic Studies). He has been co-chairman of CSIS since 1999. [7]
Martin was also involved in several military affiliated think-tanks in the UK, including the right-wing think-tank the Institute for the Study of Conflict, which he joined in the mid-70s. During the same period he was also a Council Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (from 1975–83). [8]
Martin was also a Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (aka Chatham House) from 1991 to 1996, [9]
Other affiliations
- Vice-Chancellor, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978–90
- Lees-Knowles Lectr, Cambridge, 1981
- BBC Reith Lecturer, 1981
- Member Social Science Research Council (now see ESRC), 1969–76
- Consultant, Sandia Labs. DL Tyne and Wear, 1986
Notes
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ Email from Vanessa Hawke, Information Officer at Cardiff University, 23 October 2008
- ↑ Michael Howard, Captain Professor The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) p.195
- ↑ Michael Howard, Captain Professor The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) p.196
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ↑ ‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
