Matthew Jones

Contact

• workRoom B55 Trent Building, University Park campus, University of Nottingham
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
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• matthew.jones2@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

The Cold War

Anglo-American relations

Nuclear weapons

Nuclear history

Vietnam War

British foreign and defence policy since 1939

US foreign and defence policy since 1941

Britain and South East Asia

Teaching Summary

International history in the 20th Century

The Vietnam War

US foreign policy during the Cold War

Research Summary

I am currently writing the official history of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent and the Chevaline programme, under the auspices of the Cabinet Office

Selected Publications

• JONES, M., 2010. After Hiroshima: the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945-1965 Cambridge University Press.
• JONES, M., 2011. Great Britain, the United States, and consultation over use of the atomic bomb, 1950-1954 The Historical Journal. 54(3), 797-828
• JONES, M., 2008. Targeting China: U.S. nuclear planning and "massive retaliation" in East Asia, 1953-1955 Journal of Cold War Studies. 10(4), 37-65
• JONES, M. and YOUNG, J.W., 2010. Polaris, east of Suez: British plans for a nuclear force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964-68 Journal of Strategic Studies. 33(6), 847-870

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Past Research

Anglo-American relations, US and British policies in South East Asia since 1945, Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s, Malaya and Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s (and specifically the process that led to the creation of Malaysia), nuclear history in the Cold War; the Vietnam War.

Future Research

Research in the areas of British and Cold War nuclear history, and Anglo-American relations.

• JONES, M., 2011. Great Britain, the United States, and consultation over use of the atomic bomb, 1950-1954 The Historical Journal. 54(3), 797-828
• JONES, M., 2011. Intelligence and Counterinsurgency: The Malayan Experience. In: Lessons from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History Georgetown University Press.
• JONES, M. and YOUNG, J.W., 2010. Polaris, east of Suez: British plans for a nuclear force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964-68 Journal of Strategic Studies. 33(6), 847-870
• JONES, M., 2010. After Hiroshima: the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945-1965 Cambridge University Press.
• JONES, M, 2010. The Diplomacy of Restraint: Britain and the Laos Crisis, 1961-1962. In: The Failure of Peace in Indochina, 1954-1962 Les Indes Savantes, Paris. 159-77
• JONES, M., 2008. Between the Bear and the Dragon: Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Era of Detente English Historical Review. 128(504), 1272-1283
• JONES, M., 2008. Targeting China: U.S. nuclear planning and "massive retaliation" in East Asia, 1953-1955 Journal of Cold War Studies. 10(4), 37-65
• JONES, M., 2007. '"Kipling and all that": American perceptions of SOE and British imperial intrigue in the Balkans, 1943-1945'. In: WYLIE, N., ed., The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946 London: Routledge. 90-108
• JONES, M., 2007. 'Lost Opportunities or False Expectations? The Kennedy Administration and Indonesia, 1961-63. In: BERG, M and ETGES, A., eds., John F. Kennedy and the "Thousand Days": New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag. 99-120
• JONES, M., 2005. A "Segregated" Asia?: Race, the Bandung Conference, and Pan-Asianist Fears in American Thought and Policy, 1954-1955 Diplomatic History. 29(5), 841-868
• JONES, M., 2004. The Radford Bombshell: Anglo-Australian-US Relations, Nuclear Weapons and the Defence of South East Asia, 1954-57 Journal of Strategic Studies. VOL 27(NUMB 4), 636-662
• JONES, M., 2004. The `Preferred Plan': The Anglo-American Working Group Report on Covert Action in Syria, 1957 Intelligence and National Security. VOL 19(NUMB 3), 401-415
• JONES, M., 2004. "Calling three meetings in five days is foolish - and putting them off for six weeks at a time is just as bad": Organizing the New Frontier's Foreign Policy Diplomacy & Statecraft. VOL 15(NUMB 2), 413-426
• JONES, M., 2003. Up the garden path? Britain's nuclear history in the Far East, 1954-1962 International History Review. 25(2), 306-333
• JONES, M., 2003. Anglo-American Relations after Suez, the Rise and Decline of the Working Group Experiment and the French Challenge to NATO, 1957-59 Diplomacy & Statecraft. VOL 14(PART 1), 49-78
• JONES, M., 2002. Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965 : Britain, the United States, Indonesia, and the creation of Malaysia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• JONES, M., 2002. A decision delayed: Britain's withdrawal from South East Asia reconsidered, 1961-1968 English Historical Review. 117(472), 569-595
• JONES, M., 2002. U.S. Relations with Indonesia, the Kennedy-Johnson Transition, and the Vietnam Connection, 1963-1965 Diplomatic History. VOL 26(PART 2), 249-282
• JONES, M., 2002. `Beyond Vietnam': The United States, Laos and Cambodia in the Johnson Years Diplomacy & Statecraft. VOL 13(PART 1), 191-200
• JONES, M., 2001. `Groping Toward Coexistence': US China Policy during the Johnson Years Diplomacy & Statecraft. VOL 12(PART 3), 175-190
• JONES, M., 2000. AmericaÃs Backyard, Diplomacy & Statecraft. 11(1), 291-8
• JONES, M., 2000. Creating Malaysia: Singapore Security, the Borneo Territories, and the Contours of British Policy, 1961-63 Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. VOL 28(PART 2), 85-109
• JONES, M., 1999. 'Maximum Disavowable Aid': Britain, the United States and the Indonesian Rebellion, 1957-58 English Historical Review. VOL 114(ISSUE 459), 1179-1216
• JONES, M., 1997. Macmillan, Eden, the War in the Mediterranean and Anglo-American Relations Twentieth Century British History. VOL 8(NUMBER 1), 27-48
• JONES, M., 1996. Britain, the United States, and the Mediterranean War London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.