Steven Haines
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Dr Steven Haines (MA(Hns), LLM, PhD) is an eminent British senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK), and the head of the department of Politics and International Relations.
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[edit] Today
He arrived at Royal Holloway in September 2003 following a career of over thirty years in the Royal Navy, the last eight of which were spent in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), serving on both the Naval and Central Staffs. His academic interests are closely related to his former Service career, particular emphasis being on strategic analysis and the influence of law on strategy and the conduct of military operations.
[edit] Military career
His naval operational experience ranged from Beira Patrol off Mozambique in the early 1970s, to brief periods in both Kosovo and Sierra Leone in 2001. Between 1977-82 he served with the Security Forces in Northern Ireland (including two years as Head of the Operations Department in the Naval HQ in Belfast) and from 1988-91 he was the Royal Navy Fishery Protection Squadron’s adviser on EC Fisheries Law and worked as a British Sea Fisheries Officer enforcing that law at sea in the UK's Extended Fisheries Zone. Other professional experience has included membership in the early 1990s of the Management Board of HM Naval Base Portland and, while serving in the Ministry of Defense in Whitehall, numerous visits to the former Soviet Union (Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia). He also ran the UK Delegation to tri-lateral Naval Talks with the United States and Russian Federation navies in both 1997 (Newport, Rhode Island) and 1998 (St Petersburg).
[edit] Shaping the Royal Navy's Military Strategic Level Doctrine
The editor/principle author of the RN's military strategic level doctrine (British Maritime Doctrine, 2nd Edition, 1999), Commander Haines was the RN member of the MoD's Strategic Development Study Team in 1998/99. Its report to the Secretary of State recommended the establishment of a Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre and he joined its Executive Board when it opened in 1999 at Shrivenham in Wiltshire. He went on to write the current British Defence Doctrine (launched by the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, in October 2001) and to initiate the MoD's current Strategic Analysis Programme (the results of which were published as Strategic Trends and launched by the Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, in March 2003).
[edit] Education
Dr Haines graduated from the University of Aberdeen with First Class Honours in International Relations (with International Law) in 1985 and, in 1993, completed his PhD on the legal and administrative arrangements for military operations in the UK's zones of maritime jurisdiction at the same university. He completed his LLM degree in International Law at King's College London and the London School of Economics in 2000, while serving in the MoD.
[edit] Academic Appointments
Previous academic appointments have included Research Fellow in Defence Studies and Tutor in International Relations, University of Aberdeen (1985-86) and Head of the Department of Management and Defence Studies at the Royal Naval Engineering College (1993-95). He is currently Visiting Fellow in Law, Strategy and Military Operations at Cranfield University (Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis) and a regular contributor to Cambridge University's LLM Programme and to post-graduate courses at the Greenwich Maritime Institute. He is a Trustee of the Foundation for International Security, a member of the Council of the Greenwich Forum, and a member of the Naval Review Committee.
In 2001 Dr Haines was the Royal Navy's Hudson Senior Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. In that year he carried out research into the relationship between Law, Strategy and Military Operations and was invited to contribute to the work of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, whose report (Responsibility to Protect) was presented to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in December 2001.
[edit] Recent Publications
The United Kingdom's Joint Service Manual on the Law of Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, 2004 (Chairman of the Editorial Board).
"Globalisation and Maritime Power", Naval Review, Vol.91, No.4 (November 2003)
"International Law and the War in Iraq", Naval Review, Vol.91, No.3 (August 2003)
Handbook on the Law of Maritime Operations, Naval Staff, MOD, 2003
"The Responsibility to Protect: Intervention and State Sovereignty", Naval Review, Vol.90, No.2 (July 2002).
"Fighting Power and the Warfighting Ethos", Naval Review, Vol.90, No.1 (January 2002)
British Defence Doctrine, Central Staff, MOD, 2001
"Military Intervention and International Law", in T C Salmon (Ed), Issues in International Relations, Routledge, London, 2000.
"Humanitarian Intervention, Kosovo and International Law", Naval Review, Vol 88, No.4, October 2000.
British Maritime Doctrine (2nd Edition), The Stationery Office, 1999
"The Military Utility of Aircraft Carriers: A Doctrinal Analysis", British Army Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, April 1999.
[edit] Forthcoming Publications
"Genocide, Humanitarian Intervention and International Law" in Hudson Papers Volume II, Oxford University Hudson Trust and UK Ministry of Defence, 2004 (In press).
Legal Support to Joint Operations (Joint Warfare Publication 3-46), UK Ministry of Defence (Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre), 2004 (In press)
