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Dr Robert Barnes

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r.barnes@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy

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Lecturer: History

Biography:

Dr Robert Barnes studied for his undergraduate and Master's degrees in History at the University of Manchester. He then completed his PhD in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His doctoral research was supported by the LSE Research Studentship Scheme, the University of London Central Research Fund, a Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Research Support Grant, a Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, a Rajiv Gandhi Travelling Scholarship, a Gilchrist Educational Trust Travel Grant, and the Mercers' Company Educational Trust Fund. Dr Barnes was the Master's Programmes Senior Tutor in the Department of International History at the LSE before joining York St John University. He is currently the co-ordinator for the MA International Histomore...

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Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2024) An Awkward Ally: Britain, apartheid South Africa and the Korean War. In: Best, Antony, (ed.) British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2, 1940-1990. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (In Press)
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2023) The Reluctant Contributor: Apartheid South Africa, the United Nations and the Korean War. In: UN and the Korean War. Brill (In Press)
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2024) Book Review of Nick Bunker, In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2023). Diplomacy & Statecraft.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2022) '"In the Mutual Interest": The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947-1957'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 50 (6). pp. 1093-1122.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2020) Review: Jun Suk Hyun and William Stueck. “The U.S.–ROK Relationship into Full Bloom: From ‘Little Strategic Interest’ to Alliance Partner, 1947–1966”. Journal of American-East Asian Relations 26:2 (2019): 103-140. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02602002. H-Diplo (962).
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2020) Lessons from Commonwealth history as the UK finds its place in a post-Brexit world. Politics Means Politics Magazine.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2020) Book Review: Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones, 'Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis' (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). [Book review]. Taylor & Francis.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2020) Lessons from Commonwealth history as the UK finds its place in a post-Brexit world. The Conversation.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2020) ‘A Joint Controlling System’: Commonwealth Bases and the Special Relationship, 1945–1947. International History Review, 42 (4). pp. 675-694.
Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2019) Chief Administrator or Political ‘Moderator’?: Dumbarton Oaks, the Secretary-General and the Korean War. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (2). pp. 347-367.

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1	Anglo-American Relations and the Making and Breaking of the Geneva Conference on Korea, July 1953-July 1954	215	46
2	The US, the UN and the Korean War: Communism in the Far East and the American Struggle for Hegemony in the Cold War	210
3	Britain and the Commonwealth	185	107
4	Chief Administrator or Political ‘Moderator’?: Dumbarton Oaks, the Secretary-General and the Korean War	169	104
5	Review of Lawrence S. Kaplan, NATO before the Korean War: April 1949–June 1950 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013, $60.00). Pp. 216. isbn 978 1 6063 5169 7.	167	44
6	Ending the Korean War	162	479
7	Between the Blocs: India, the United Nations, and Ending the Korean War	160
8	Introduction	156	167
9	Book Review: The War for Korea, 1950--1951: They Came from the North. By Allan R. Millett. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2010. xx + 644 pp. US$45.00 hbk. ISBN 978 0 7006 1709 8	142	74
10	Branding an Aggressor: The Commonwealth, the United Nations and Chinese Intervention in the Korean War, November 1950–January 1951	121	334