Education: PhD, International History, London School of Economics 1997

Career: Joe Maiolo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Before joining the Department in 2001, he held teaching posts in Modern European and International History at the Universities of London (1997–98), Leicester (1998–99) and Leeds (1999–2001). During the 2005–06 academic year, he was Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. Dr Maiolo’s research focuses on the history of diplomacy, strategy and intelligence in the era of the two world wars. His current research project is a study of the relationship between the global arms race of the 1930s and the coming of the Second World War (forthcoming 2008). Joe Maiolo is co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies (see url below) and a member of the editorial board for Intelligence and National Security.

Publications include: The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933–1939: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War 1998, An International History of the Twentieth Century 2003, The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (co-editor) 2003, Strategic intelligence, Counter-Intelligence and Alliance Diplomacy in Anglo-French Relations before the Second World War (co-author) 2007, The Strategy Reader (co-editor) 2007; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of War Studies, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7848-2201; Fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2026; Email: joe.maiolo@kcl.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01402390.asp/ .