Dr William D. James

Books:

• Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations: How the Alliance Weathers Crises (Georgetown University Press, 2026), co-edited with Professor Greg Kennedy

• British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (Oxford University Press, 2024)

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Academic (peer-reviewed) journal articles:

• 'Stewarding Pax Americana: How core allies respond when the hegemon wavers', International Affairs, 102:4 (2026)

• '"Neville, you must remember you don't know anything about foreign affairs": Assurance, air power, and alternative histories to appeasement', Journal of Strategic Studies, 48:4 (2025)

• 'Influencing the United States: is the game worth the candle for junior allies?', International Politics, 59:6 (2022)

• 'Global Britain's strategic problem East of Suez', European Journal of International Security, 6:2 (2021)

• 'Between a pandemic and a hard Brexit: grand strategic thinking in an age of nationalism, renewed geopolitical competition and human insecurity', RUSI Journal, 165:7 (2020)

• 'Grandiose strategy? Refining the study and practice of grand strategy', RUSI Journal, 165:3 (2020)

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Book chapters:

• 'Grand strategy and the challenge of change' in The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, edited by Ronald R. Krebs and Thierry Balzacq (Oxford University Press, 2021)​​

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Recent articles:​

• 'How America's allies can preserve the West', Engelsberg Ideas (July 2026)

• 'Australia and Japan are stewards of a wavering order', The Strategist - ASPI (July 2026)

• 'The key to grand strategy', Engelsberg Ideas (November 2025)

• 'Tony Blair and the tragedy of liberal interventionism', Engelsberg Ideas (April 2024)

• 'What is the British Army for?', Engelsberg Ideas (March 2023)

• 'There and Back Again: The Fall and Rise of Britain's "East of Suez" Basing Strategy', War on the Rocks (February 2021)​​

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Recent policy papers:​​

• 'The Greenland crisis and the changing character of American hegemony', Centre for Maritime Military Studies, Italian Navy (February 2026)

• 'Allies and partners' in 'Britain's world: The strategy of security in twelve geopolitical maps', Council on Geostrategy (January 2026), co-authored with Peter Watkins 

• 'Who are Britain’s most important allies and partners?', Council on Geostrategy (July 2024) 

• 'The great gamble: Mass by trust and technology', Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre (September 2023)

• 'Tailored, tokenistic, or too much? Assessing the Royal Navy’s presence in the Indo-Pacific', Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (February 2023)

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Recent book reviews:

• Roundtable review of False Prophets: British Leaders Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Nigel Ashton, H-Diplo (2026)

• ​Review of Rivals in arms: the rise of UK–France defence relations in the twenty-first century by Alice Pannier, International Affairs, 98:2 (2022)

• Review of Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases by Thierry Balzacq, Peter Dombrowski and Simon Reich (eds.), International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

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