https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Laurence_Martin&feed=atom&action=historyLaurence Martin - Revision history2024-03-28T19:56:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.5https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Laurence_Martin&diff=73596&oldid=prevTom Mills: Category:Academics2009-01-15T13:12:24Z<p>Category:Academics</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1964 Martin returned to Britain to take up a post as Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales. <ref>‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007</ref> 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 [[Paul Wilkinson|Wilkinson]] was in Cardiff. <ref>Email from Vanessa Hawke, Information Officer at Cardiff University, 23 October 2008</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1964 Martin returned to Britain to take up a post as Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales. <ref>‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007</ref> 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 [[Paul Wilkinson|Wilkinson]] was in Cardiff. <ref>Email from Vanessa Hawke, Information Officer at Cardiff University, 23 October 2008</ref></div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Laurence Woodward Martin''' (born 30 July 1928) is British academic and strategist. He has [[Michael Howard (UK Academic)|Michael Howard's]] successor at the [[Department of War Studies, King's College London|Department of War Studies]] at Kings College London, and has been involved in a number of influential foreign policy think-tanks.<br />
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==Education and Academia==<br />
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. <ref>‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007</ref><br />
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In 1964 Martin returned to Britain to take up a post as Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales. <ref>‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007</ref> 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 [[Paul Wilkinson|Wilkinson]] was in Cardiff. <ref>Email from Vanessa Hawke, Information Officer at Cardiff University, 23 October 2008</ref><br />
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In 1968 Martin was offered a post as position as Chichele Chair of the History of War at [[All Souls College, Oxford|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]]. <ref>Michael Howard, ''Captain Professor The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) p.195</ref> Martin turned down the offer which was taken up by [[Michael Howard (UK Academic)|Michael Howard]] who was professor of [[Department of War Studies, King's College London|War Studies]] at Kings College London. <ref>Michael Howard, ''Captain Professor The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) p.196</ref> Martin then took up [[Michael Howard (UK Academic)|Howard's]] post and stayed at Kings College until 1977. <ref>‘MARTIN, Sir Laurence (Woodward)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007</ref><br />
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