Barnes, Robert

• Lecturer: History
• School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy

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Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2024) Introduction: The Commonwealth's Korean War at 75. International History Review.

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 (2022) '"United as free and equal": The New Commonwealth, Prime Ministers' Meetings, and the Korean War. International History Review.

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 (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 (2019) Chief Administrator or Political ‘Moderator’?: Dumbarton Oaks, the Secretary-General and the Korean War. Journal of Contemporary History, 54 (2). pp. 347-367.

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2014) 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. Journal of American Studies, 48 (03). pp. 216-217.

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2013) Ending the Korean War. The RUSI Journal, 158 (3). pp. 78-87.

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2013) Between the Blocs: India, the United Nations, and Ending the Korean War. Journal of Korean Studies, 18 (2). pp. 263-286.

Book Section

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 (2016) Anglo-American Relations and the Making and Breaking of the Geneva Conference on Korea, July 1953-July 1954. In: Best, A., (ed.) Britain's retreat from empire in East Asia, 1905-1980. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia . Routledge

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2014) Britain and the Commonwealth. In: Matray, James I. and Boose, Donald W., (eds.) The Ashgate research companion to the Korean War. Ashgate, pp. 73-84

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2012) Introduction. In: Casey, Steven, (ed.) The Korean War at Sixty: New Approaches to the Study of the Korean War. London, Routledge, pp. 1-13

Book

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2014) The US, the UN and the Korean War: Communism in the Far East and the American Struggle for Hegemony in the Cold War. Library of Modern American History . London, IB Tauris

Other

Barnes, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-7839 (2024) Putin-Kim summit has roots in an alliance of ‘isolated’ nations built over decades. The Conversation.

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 (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. Politics Means Politics Magazine.

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 (2011) 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. Sage.