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Professor Anthony King

Publications

Books

The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: from the Rhine to Afghanistan, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

The Structure of Social Theory, Routledge, 2004.

The European Ritual: football and the New Europe, Ashgate, 2003.

The End of the Terraces: the transformation of English Football in the 1990s, Leicester University Press, 2001.

Chapters

‘Two Kinds of Social Theory’, in Martin, P and Dennis, A (eds.) Social Structure and Human Agency, Manchester University Press, 2010, in , Manchester University Press, 2010

‘The Two Habermases’, in Martin, P and Dennis, A (eds.) Social Structure and Human Agency, Manchester University Press, 2010, in , Manchester University Press, 2010

‘The British Way in Warfare: Notes for Multinational Partners’ in Soeters, J (ed). 2008. Multinational Military Co-operation During Peace Operations. London: Routledge., in , Routledge, 2008

The Deep Questions: structure/agency, macro/micro time/space in Crothers C (ed) UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems 2009., in ,

'After the Crunch: a new era for the beautiful game' in Manzenreiter, W and Spitaler, G (eds)Football and the Production or EUROtmPE, Routledge in 2010, in ,

Structuralism and Functionalism in Jarvie I and Zamaro J (eds) Handbook of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2009), in ,

‘The End of the Terraces: the new European Stadium’, in Frank, S and Steets, S (ed.) Stadiumworlds, Routledge, 2009, in ,

‘The Paradox of Multinationality’ in Szvirchev Tresch, T. (ed.) 2007. Cultural Challenges in Military Operations. Rome: NDC., in ,

'The Fourth Afghan War and European Miltary Transformation' Manchester Memoirs 2009, in ,

Conferences

8 January 2008: ‘Towards a Transnational Europe: The case of the armed forces’, ESRC Seminar Series ‘The New Economy of Security: Contemporary Insecurities and the Pluralisation of Coercive Force’, Dept of Politics, Bristol University.,

'The Operational Community: the new network of European military power' Presented to Dept of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway College, London 25 November 2008,

15-18 February 2009: 'Bringing Status Back in' with Tim Dunne paper presented to ISA conference, New York,

30 May 2008: ‘For a value free sociology of the armed forces’, ESRC seminar ‘Reflexivity and Military Scholarship’, Department of Politics, University of Bristol.,

14-16 July 2008: ‘European Military Transformation, ISA RC 01 Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, Seoul.,

Journal articles

The Afghan War and Postmodern Memory: commemoration and the dead of helmand, British Journal of Sociology, no. 1, 2010, 1-25

The Existence of Cohesion in the Armed Forces’, Armed Forces & Society, vol. 33, no. 4, 2007, 638-645

The Word of Command: communication and cohesion in the military, Armed Forces & Society, vol. 32, no. 4, 2006, 493-512 DOI

Towards a European Military Culture?, Defence Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2006

Serial Killing and the Postmodern Self’, History of the Human Sciences, vol. 19, no. 3, 2006, 111-127

The Joint Services Command and Staff College: photo essay’, Etnographica, vol. 10, no. 2, 2006, 13-14

The Post-Fordist Military, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, vol. 34, no. 1, 2006, 339-354

The Habitus Process: a sociological conception’, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 35, no. 4, 2006, 463-468

How not to structure a social theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 36, no. 4, 2006, 464-479

Towards a Transnational Europe: the case of the armed forces, European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 8, no. 3, 2005, 321-340

The Future of the European Security and Defence Policy’, Security Policy, vol. 26, no. 1, 2005, 44-61

The New Symbols of European Football, Review of the Sociology of Sport, 2004, 323-337

Violent Pasts: collective memory and football hooliganism, The Sociological Review, vol. 49, no. 4, 2001, 568-585 DOI

Ian Taylor, 19 January 2000: some personal contemplations, Soccer and Society, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001

Engaged and Abstract Critique in Sociology: on football hooliganism’, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 51, no. 2, 2001, 707-712

'Leaders have not shown the courage to explain what the war really means' interview with Madeleine Bunting Guardian 23 March 2009,

Colonel Iron and the Charge of the Knights Prospect March 2009,

‘The Special Air Service and the Concentration of Military Power’ Armed Force & Society 35 (1/2) 2008,

Overcoming Structure and Agency: Talcott Parsons, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Theory of Social Action Journal of Classical Sociology 9(2): 257-285,

Unity is Strength: Staff College and the British Officer Corps, British Journal of Sociology

‘Military Command in the Last Decade’, International Affairs, vol. 2, no. 87, 377-96

‘The Power of Politics’, RUSI Journal, vol. (6), 68-73

Reports

Joint Doctrine Note 1/09 The Significance of the Culture to the Military Cultural Analysis Template, January 2009

Joint Warfare Publications 3.40 Stabilisation Operations. Analysis Chapter. 2009