David Easter

David is Lecturer in War Studies Online at King’s College London and Academic Director of the online MA programme, War in the Modern World.
He holds a BA in History and Philosophy from Lancaster University and an MSc and PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has worked as a Tutorial Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and been a Fellow at the Cold War Studies Centre/IDEAS. His research interests include British foreign and defence policy, signals intelligence and the Cold War, especially the interplay between Cold War, nationalism and anti-colonialism in conflicts in the Middle East and South East Asia;. His book, Britain and the Confrontation with Indonesia, 1960-1966, was published by I.B. Tauris in 2004. He is currently writing a monograph on Indonesia in the Cold War and researching Soviet military involvement in the 1962 West Irian Crisis.
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