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Dr Richard Dunley

Dr Richard Dunley

Associate Professor
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School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Richard Dunley is a Senior Lecturer in history and maritime strategy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), Ƶ. 

Research Interests

  • British naval & strategic policy c.1856-1920
  • British diplomatic history c.1856-1920
  • Maritime Strategy - historic and contemporary 
  • Naval technology
  • Australian defence policy & strategy
Phone
+61 2 5114 5080
E-mail
r.dunley@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2018
    Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915 Culture, Strategy and International Law, Springer
    Books | 2018
    Dunley R, 2018, Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915, Springer International Publishing,
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'Middle Power Aircraft Carriers: The Experience of the Royal Australian Navy in the Era of the Korean War', in Coalition Navies during the Korean War Understanding Combined Naval Operations, Taylor & Francis,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars', in The Routledge History of the First World War, Taylor & Francis, pp. 103 - 114,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Dunley R, 2023, 'The "Problem of Asia" and Imperial Competition Before World War I', in The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific Strategy, Order, and Regional Security, Georgetown University Press, pp. 151 - 168,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Dunley R; Morgan Owen D, 2022, 'Naval History, Maritime Strategy, and the Role of Technology', in Power in the Maritime Domain: A Global Dialogue, Routledge, London,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Dunley RE, 2014, '‘“The Most Resistless and Revolutionary Weapon of Naval Warfare that has Ever Been Introduced”: The Royal Navy and the Whitehead Torpedo 1870-1890’', in A Military Transformed? Adaption and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945, Helion & Company Limited
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'Australianised military off-the-shelf: Australia's naval ship design ethos and the Anzac Class frigates', Marine Policy, 161, pp. 106003,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'Plan B?: Reconsidering Australian Security in the event of a post US alliance era', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 78, pp. 479 - 497,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'Small Mobile Pieces of National Sovereignty?—Uncrewed Vessels, Naval Diplomacy, and the Challenge of Signaling', Naval War College Review,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dunley R, 2024, 'The End of the Age of Transoceanic Navies?: Democratisation of A2/AD and the Relationship Between Land and Sea Power', RUSI Journal, 169, pp. 54 - 62,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dunley R, 2023, 'The end of the ‘lucky country’? Understanding the failure of the AUKUS policy debate', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77, pp. 317 - 324,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dunley R, 2023, 'Uncrewed naval vessels and the span of maritime tasks', Marine Policy, 149,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dunley R, 2023, 'Unsinkable Ships?', Australian Army Journal, 19,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Dunley R, 2022, 'Operation Q: Churchill and Fisher's Invasion of Germany, 1915?', Journal of Military History (US), 86, pp. 612 - 641
    Journal articles | 2022
    Dunley R, 2022, 'Rebuilding the Mills of Sea Power: Interwar British Planning for Economic Warfare against Japan', International History Review, 44, pp. 1091 - 1107,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Dunley R; Pugh J, 2021, 'Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives', Twentieth Century British History, 32, pp. 581 - 607,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Dunley R, 2020, 'The Archive of the Edwardian Foreign Office: The Archaeology of a Collection and Its Use', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31, pp. 429 - 449,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Dunley R, 2019, 'Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Pre-First World War Royal Navy: A Cultural Failure?', War in History, 27, pp. 617 - 642,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Dunley R, 2017, 'Invasion, raids and army reform: the political context of ‘flotilla defence’, 1903–5', Historical Research, 90, pp. 613 - 635,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Dunley RE, 2016, 'Technology and Tradition: Mine Warfare and the Royal Navy’s Strategy of Coastal Assault 1870-1890', Journal of Military History, 80, pp. 389 - 409
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dunley R, 2015, ''The warrior has always shewed himself greater than his weapons': The Royal Navy's interpretation of the Russo- Japanese War 1904-5', War and Society, 34, pp. 248 - 262,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dunley R, 2015, 'Sir John Fisher and the Policy of Strategic Deterrence, 1904–1908', War in History, 22, pp. 155 - 173,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Dunley RE, 2015, '"Not intended to act as spies”: The Consular Intelligence Service in Denmark and Germany 1906-1914', International History Review, 37, pp. 481 - 502,