NATO politics and history,foreign policy analysis,security governance,EU defence policy,comparative international organisations,Russian foreign policy,post-Soviet space,China–NATO relations,Western response to Ukraine war.
Webber was born on 18 April 1964. After completing his BA at Warwick University,and later his MA Social Science at the University of Birmingham,he was awarded his PhD in 1991 for a dissertation on Soviet policy toward southern Africa.
Formerly the Head of the Department of Politics,History and International Relations at Loughborough University,he joined the University of Birmingham,where he later served as Head of the School of Government and Society from 2011 to July 2019. He remains a Professor of International Politics at the university. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules on strategy,leadership,foreign policy,NATO,and global cooperation[1].
Webber’s research interests include the politics,history,and theoretical interpretation of NATO,Russian foreign policy,foreign policy analysis,security governance,the EU Common Security and Defence Policy,comparative international organisations,and the international politics of the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on projects related to NATO and China,and the Western response to the war in Ukraine.
Policy and public engagement
Webber has lectured at the NATO Fusion Centre (Molesworth),the UK Defence Academy (Shrivenham),and the Royal College of Defence Studies (London). He has given evidence on NATO to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee and the House of Lords Committee on International Relations and Defence.
From 2014 to 2019,he was an External Examiner on the officer commissioning course at the Royal Military Academy,Sandhurst.
Webber has been involved in organising student delegations to the International Model NATO in Washington,D.C. for over fifteen years. Since 2019,he has been academic lead for the London Model NATO,hosted at the UK Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office and sponsored by the British International Studies Association (BISA). He has also supported Model NATO events with UK embassies in Lithuania,Finland,Portugal,Sweden and Iceland. In 2019,he contributed background video recordings for NATO Engages,the official outreach event of the NATO Leaders’Meeting in London.
From September 2022 to January 2023,he was the Senior Eisenhower Defence Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome.
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