Dr Steven Wagner
Senior Lecturer in International Security
Marie Jahoda 217
- Email: steven.wagner@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268984
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I am an historian of intelligence, security, empire and the modern Middle East. Before coming to Brunel, I was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal. I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford, and my BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Since 2007, I have been looking at records 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.
Qualifications:
- DPhil – University of Oxford
- MA – University of Calgary
- BA – University of Calgary
Responsibility
Postgraduate Programmes
- MAISS Contributor
Module convenor
- pp3001 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- pp1605 Conflict and Diplomacy in the Modern World
- pp5577 Intelligence History: Failure and Success
- pp5613 Intelligence History: Failure and Success (Distance Learning)
Administration
- web champion for politics & history
- Social Media Internship lead
- Director of Postgraduate Research
Newest selected publications
Gustafson, K., Lomas, D., Wagner, S., Abdalla, N. and Davies, P. (2024) 'Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022'. Intelligence and National Security, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0268-4527 Open Access Link
Wagner, S. (2023) 'Espionage and the 1935 Press War in Palestine: Revisiting Factionalism, Forgeries and Fake News'. The English Historical Review, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 528 - 565. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Wagner, S. (2023) 'Between the Ottomans and the Entente: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora 1908–1925'. First World War Studies, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 1 - 2. ISSN: 1947-5020
Wagner, S. (2020) 'Unearthed: The Wartime Archive of Amin al-Husayni'. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant ( CBRL Bulletin), 13. pp. 46 - 48.Open Access Link
Wagner, S. (2019) 'Statecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine'. Ithaca, United States: Cornell University Press. ISSN 10: 1501736477 ISSN 13: 9781501736476