UNITED KINGDOM
UK Reports on SocArXiv
Srdjan Vucetic is the country coordinator and (co-)author of select British national identity reports (links below). His forthcoming book, Greatness and Decline: National Identity and British Foreign Policy (McGill-Queen’s, 2021), is based on some of these reports. See also his note on selecting sources (June 2016), and a short coding guide (December 2015).
Alyssa Maraj Grahame co-authored the UK-2000 report. A visiting assistant professor of government at Bowdoin College, she studies political economy, collective action, and democracy. Her research has been supported by the NSF, Fulbright, and Leifur Eiríksson Foundation. PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Kalathmika Natarajan collected data for the UK-1960 report. PhD Fellow with the University of Copenhagen’s Embers of Empire project, she has studied International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London and also worked with a number of think tanks in New Delhi, including the Centre for Policy Research, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, United Service Institution of India and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
Kristen Olver co-authored the UK-1990 report. She holds an MSc in Countering Organized Crime & Terrorism from UCL, London, and an Hons. BA in Political Studies & Science from Queens University, Ontario. Worked for The Senate of Canada and the UN Development Programme in Kigali, Rwanda.
David Orr co-authored the UK-1980 report. He holds an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from Cambridge University and an Hons. BA in Political Studies & Science from Queens University, Ontario. Orr lived in Canada, the UK, Kenya, and Tanzania. He currently works as an International Development Consultant at Mott MacDonald, London.
Saul M. Rodriguez is the author of the UK-2015 report. He is currently a PhD student at Political School in the University of Ottawa. He holds a Master in Social Sciences Investigation (with honor) from the University of Buenos Aires and B.A in History (with high honors) from the National University of Colombia. He taught at several universities in Colombia including Javeriana, the National University, and Sergio Arboleda, and was also a visiting researcher at the Central University of Venezuela. His books include La influencia de Estados Unidos en el Ejército colombiano, 1951-1959 (2006), and De milicias reales a militares contrainsurgentes [with Cesar Torres and et al.] (2008), and he has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in both Spanish and English, most recently in Security Dialogue. His dissertation is on democracy and militarism in Colombia and Venezuela during Chavez and Uribe eras.