Dr Steven Wagner
Senior Lecturer in International Security

Research area(s)

• intelligence and security
• british empire
• the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• strategy & policy

Research Interests

Broadly speaking, my research covers the relationship between intelligence, state and society, and how intelligence services influenced the emergence of the Modern Middle East. Since 2007, I have studied declassified records in the UK, USA, and Israel which shed new light on the story of the Palestine Mandate, but also on the previously unknown role of intelligence in countering terrorism & insurgency, and in shaping British policy. Specifically, he has focused on how intelligence shaped Britain's thirty year rule in Palestine, and its impact upon the Arab-Zionist conflict. 

Grants

Project details

Steven's current research includes:

• I'm working on the wartime archive of Hajj Amin al-Husseini
• an article on Saudi military contributions during Britain's landing at Basra in 1914
• a long-term project on secret intelligence and Britain's exit from Palestine 

Research centre(s)

• Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)