Philip Towle
Dr. Philip Towle is a Reader in International Studies and past Director of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Before he joined the Centre in 1980, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, following his work for Reuters News Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He served as Deputy Director at the Centre of International Studies from 1982-1993, and then as Director of the Centre from 1993-1998. As an active member of the staff, Dr. Towle currently teaches a course on International Security for the master’s program in International Relations, as well as directing library activities and overseeing six courses every year for the Board of Continuing Education. His research focuses on East Asian security, arms control, post-war peace conferences, and contemporary international relations in East Asia, and his recent publications include Enforced Disarmament from the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War (Oxford, 1997) and Democracy and Peacemaking: Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973 (Routledge, 2000). Dr. Towle is currently editing a collection of essays about the Anglo-Japanese economic relations and working on civil-military relations in Britain.