# Doug Stokes

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**Doug Stokes** (born 1972) is a British academic.

He completed his degree at [London University](/source/University_of_London) in 1997, and worked in the still conflict-prone town of [Brčko](/source/Br%C4%8Dko) in [Bosnia](/source/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina). He returned to full time education in 2000 for his master's degree, and completed his Ph.D. at [Bristol](/source/Bristol) in 2003.

## Legacy

He has published a number of books and articles on [US foreign policy](/source/US_foreign_policy), grand strategy and world order. His most recent books include an edited volume with Professor [Michael Cox](/source/Michael_Cox_(academic)) (of the [London School of Economics](/source/London_School_of_Economics)) entitled *US foreign policy* ([Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2008; 2nd edition 2012; 3rd edition 2018) and *Energy Security and American Hegemony*[1] ([Johns Hopkins University Press](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University_Press) in June 2010).

He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).[2]

## Works

- Stokes D (2001). Better lead than bread? a Critical Analysis of the US’s Plan Colombia. Civil Wars, 2, 59-78.
- Stokes D (2003). Why the end of the Cold War doesn't matter: the US war of terror in Colombia. Review of International Studies, 29(4), 569-585+464.
- Stokes D (2003). Countering the Soviet Threat? an Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador from 1979–1992. Cold War History, 3, 79-102.
- Stokes D (2005). The Heart of Empire? Theorizing US Empire in an Era of Transnational Capitalism. Third World Quarterly: journal of emerging areas, 2, 227-246.
- Stokes D (2005). America's Other War., Zed Books.
- Stokes D (2006). Iron Fists in Iron Gloves: the Political Economy of US Terrorocracy Promotion in Colombia. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 368-387.
- Stokes D (2007). Blood for Oil? Global Capital, Counter-Insurgency and the Dual Logic of American Energy Security. Review of International Studies, 2, 245-264.
- Stokes D (2008). Beyond Geo-strategy and Solidarism. In Coicaud J-M, Wheeler NJ (Eds.) National interest and international solidarity, United Nations Univ. Abstract.
- Stokes D (2009). The war gamble: Understanding US interests in Iraq. Globalizations, 6(1), 107-112.
- Stokes D (2009). New Directions in US Foreign Policy. In Parmar I (Ed) New Directions in US Foreign Policy, Taylor & Francis.
- Stokes D (2009). Ideas and Avocados: Ontologising Critical Terrorism Studies’. International Relations Journal
- Stokes D, Raphael S (2010). Global Energy Security and American Hegemony., Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Kiersey NJ, Stokes D (2010). Foucault and International Relations., Routledge.
- Stokes D, Raphael S (2011). Globalizing West African oil: US ‘energy security’ and the global economy. International Affairs, 87(4), 903-921.
- Stokes D, Herring E (2011). Critical Realism and Historical Materialism as Resources for Critical Terrorism Studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4(1), 5-21.
- Stokes D, Gowan P (2012). The US in the Global Economy. In Stokes D, Cox M (Eds.) US Foreign Policy.
- Stokes D, Raphael S (2012). Energy Security in the Age of Terror. In Collins A (Ed) Contemporary Security Studies, OUP Oxford.
- Stokes D, Whitman R (2013). Transatlantic Triage? European and UK ‘Grand Strategy’ after the US Rebalance to Asia. International Affairs
- Stokes D (2013). Goodbye America?: Transatlantic Grand Strategy after the Financial Crisis. RUSI Journal, 158(4), 70-75.
- Stokes D, Raphael S (2014). US Oil Strategy in the Caspian Basin: Hegemony through interdependence. International Relations Journal
- Stokes D, Newton P (2014). Bridging the Gulf? America's 'Pivot' and the Middle East Challenge it Poses for the UK's Strategic Defence and Security Review. RUSI Journal
- Stokes D (2014). Achilles’ deal: Dollar decline and US grand strategy after the crisis. Review of International Political Economy, 21(5), 1071-1094.
- Stokes D, Waterman K (2017). Security leverage, structural power and US strategy in east Asia. International Affairs, 93(5), 1039-1060.
- Stokes D, Waterman K (2017). Beyond balancing? Intrastate conflict and US grand strategy. Journal of Strategic Studies, 41(6), 824-849.
- Cox M, Stokes D (2018). US foreign policy., Oxford University Press, USA.
- Stansfield G, Stokes D, Kelly S (2018). UK strategy in the gulf and middle east after American retrenchment. Insight Turkey, 20(4), 231-247.
- Stokes D (2018). Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 94(1), 133-+.
- Stokes D (2018). The Sneer of Cold Command’: Trump, American Hegemony and the Future of the Liberal International Order. International Affairs, 94, 133-150.
- Ikenberry GJ, Parmar I, Stokes D (2018). Introduction: Ordering the world? Liberal internationalism in theory and practice. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 94(1), 1-5.
- Stokes D (2022). Energy Security. In Collins A (Ed) Contemporary Security Studies: 6th Edition, Oxford University Press.
- Stokes D (2023). Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West. Oxford, Polity Press.

## References

1. Stokes, Doug (2010). *Global Energy Security and American Hegemony*. jhu.edu. [doi:10.56021/9780801894961](https://doi.org/10.56021/9780801894961). ISBN 978-0801894961.

1. ["RUSI -"](http://www.rusi.org/)

## External links

- [Doug Stokes at Substack](https://dougstokes.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile)
- [Works by Doug Stokes](https://www.dougstokes.net/)

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