Professor David Dunn

Professor David Dunn

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor in International Politics

Contact details

Address
Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Qualifications

PhD War Studies (Kings College London)

MSc International Studies (Southampton University)

BA Political Theory and Institutions (Liverpool University)

Postgraduate supervision

David Dunn has diverse research interests that fit largely within the areas of US foreign and security policy, strategic and security studies, and diplomacy and statecraft. He has written extensively on the use of force, transatlantic relations and summit diplomacy. He has also published on the security impact of drone technology.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Wheeler, N & Dunn, D 2024, Drones, Force and Law: European Perspectives. Elements in International Relations, 1 edn, Cambridge University Press. <https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/drones-force-and-law-european-perspectives?format=AR>

Article

Dunn, DH 2026, 'Rethinking Military Education in UK Universities: What the 2015 Strategic Defence Review Missed', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, vol. 171, no. 1.

Webber, M & Dunn, D 2025, 'Looking ahead: imbalance, dependency and NATO’s uncertain future', Defence Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2025.2474057

Wyatt, C & Dunn, D 2019, 'Seeing things differently: nang, tura, zolm, and other cultural factors in Taliban attitudes to drones', Ethnopolitics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2018.1527086

Dunn, D & Webber, M 2017, 'The UK, the European Union and NATO: Brexit’s Unintended Consequences', Global Affairs, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 471-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2017.1294465

Dunn, D & Wolff, S 2013, 'Drone Use In Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorism: Policy or Policy Component?', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Dunn, D 2017, The Iraq Syndrome Revisited: America's Use Force Debate Under Obama. in The Art of Creating Power: Freedman on Strategy. Hart Publishing.

Dunn, D 2016, Shifting sands: the Shale revolution, US energy independence, and the geopolitical consequences. in The USA and Canada 2017. Routledge.

Dunn, D & Avenell, E 2016, US-UK Special Relationship. in Oxford Bibliographies: Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0189

Chapter

Dunn, DH 2025, US Energy Policy and the second Trump Administration: The Search for "Energy Dominance" and its Consequences. in EP (ed.), The USA and Canada 2026. 28 edn, USA and Canada, Routledge, pp. 185-201. <https://www.routledge.com/USA-and-Canada-2026/Publications/p/book/9781041058809>

Dunn, DH 2024, US energy policy and the Biden administration: assessing the challenges and the record. in EP (ed.), The USA and Canada 2025. 27 edn, USA and Canada, Routledge, pp. 189-202. <https://www.routledge.com/The-USA-and-Canada-2025/Publications/p/book/9781032761084>

Dunn, DH 2023, The Biden administration and US energy policy: setting a new path in a period of international crisis. in EP (ed.), The USA and Canada 2024. 26 edn, USA and Canada, Routledge, pp. 84-96. <https://www.routledge.com/The-USA-and-Canada-2024/Publications/p/book/9781032492834>

Dunn, D & Avenell, E 2016, Crisis Diplomacy. in The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy. SAGE Publications, pp. 462-475.

Lock-Pullan, R & Dunn, D 2016, Summit Diplomacy. in The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy . SAGE Publications, London, pp. 231-241.

Dunn, D & McClelland, M 2015, The Resilience of American power: The US energy revolution and its geopolitical implications in the twilight of the Obama era. in USA and Canda 2016. Europa Publications.

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Expertise

US foreign and security policy; American politics; security studies – including arms control, nuclear strategy and strategic studies; European security including transatlantic relations and NATO; British foreign and security policy; diplomacy including summit meetings and public diplomacy

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Expertise

International security, US foreign and security policy, US politics, Diplomacy especially international summitry