Robert Dover
 Robert Dover     (academic) | ||||||||||
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| Born | November 1977 | |||||||||
| Nationality | UK | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Nottingham University, Bristol University, King's College London | |||||||||
| Member of | Institute for Statecraft, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core | |||||||||
| Interests | • “Arab Spring” • Intelligence agencies • arms trade | |||||||||
UK academic with a special interest in UK/Western intelligence agencies. Institute for Statecraft, as is at least one of his graduate students.
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Dr. Robert Matthew Dover is a UK academic with UK FCO connections. He was listed as a member of the Institute for Statecraft when the group took down their website after the Integrity Initiative Leak.
Background
"BA, MA (Nottingham), PhD (Bristol), PGCAP (KCL)"[2]
Career
"In May and June 2010 Robert Dover and Michael Goodman, with AHRC funding, ran a series of 5 policy seminars on Lessons Learnt from the History of British Intelligence and Security. These were held in partnership with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the Cabinet Office, King’s College London and The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)".
In 2012 he was working for Loughborough University.[3]
One of his graduate students, Eduard Abrahamyan, writing on "Stages and Motives of NATO Strategy Evolution and Adaptation in the Black Sea region (2004-2016)" was also a member of the Institute for Statecraft.
Opinions
Al-Yamamah
Commenting on the Al-Yamamah arms trade before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Dr Robert Dover and Professor Mark Phythian of the University of Leicester called it “a strategically important liaison relationship that provides hard and soft intelligence to the UK, and in providing the UK with the retention of some influence and so diplomatic advantage in the Middle East.”[4]
Publications
Robert Dover has published several academic papers. He has "a long-standing interest in the study of the international arms trade, and its relationship to political power." In 2012, he contributed to Defence and Security in a Cold Economic Climate: The Impact on Conflict and Competition, a volume edited by IfS director, Chris Donnelly. [5]
