Ashton, Nigel J.

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  • Ashton, Nigel (2025). David Owen, human rights and the remaking of British foreign policy. Contemporary British History, 39(4), 772 - 773. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2025.2489472
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2022). False prophets: British leaders' fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria. Atlantic Books.
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2013). Hitler on the Nile?: British and American perceptions of the Nasser regime, 1952-70. In Freedman, L. & Michaels, J. (Eds.), Scripting Middle East Leaders: the Impact of Leadership Perceptions on Us and Uk Foreign Policy . Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Ashton, Nigel J, Gibson, Bryan (Eds.) (2013). The Iran-Iraq War: new international perspectives. Routledge.
  • Ashton, Nigel J., Gibson, Bryan (2012). Introduction: the Iran-Iraq War: new international perspectives. In Ashton, N. J. & Gibson, B. (Eds.), The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives (pp. 1-12). Routledge.
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2012). For king and country: Jack O’Connell, the CIA and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1963-71. Diplomatic History, 36(5), 881-910. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2012.01068.x
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2011). Love’s labours lost: Margaret Thatcher, King Hussein and Anglo-Jordanian relations, 1979-1990. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 22(4), 651-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2011.625822
  • Kitchen, Nicholas, Kepel, Giles, Gerges, Fawaz A., Ashton, Nigel J, Aran, Amnon (2009). The Middle East: intractable conflict? (IDEAS reports - strategic updates SU003). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2008). King Hussein of Jordan: a political life. Yale University Press.
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (Ed.) (2007). The Cold War in the Middle East: regional conflict and the superpowers, 1967-73. Routledge.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2007). Cold War, hot war, and civil war: King Hussein and Jordan's regional role, 1967-1973. In Ashton, N. J. (Ed.), The Cold War in the Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers, 1967-73 . Routledge.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2006). Anglo-American revival and empire during the Macmillan years, 1957-63. In Lynn, M. (Ed.), The British Empire in the 1950s: Retreat or Revival? (pp. 164-185). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2006). Pulling the strings: King Hussein's role during the crisis of 1970 in Jordan. International History Review, 28(1), 94-118.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2005). 'A special relationship sometimes in spite of ourselves': Britain and Jordan, 1957-73. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 33(2), 221-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530500123812
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2004). Anglo-American relations from World War to Cold War. Journal of Contemporary History, 39(1), 117-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009404039887
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2004). Britain, Nasser and the balance of power in the Middle East, 1952-1977: from the Eygptian revolution to the six day war. Routledge.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2002). Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: the irony of interdependence. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2002). A rearguard action: Harold Macmillan and the making of British foreign policy, 1957-1963. In Otte, T. G. (Ed.), The Makers of British Foreign Policy (pp. 238-260). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2001). Anglo-Dutch relations and the Kaiser Question, 1918-20. In Ashton, N. J. & Hellema, D. (Eds.), Unspoken Allies: Anglo-Dutch Relations Since 1780 (pp. 85-100). Amsterdam University Press.
  • Ashton, Nigel J, Hellema, D (Eds.) (2001). Unspoken allies: Anglo-Dutch relations since 1780. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Ashton, Nigel J., Hellema, Duco (2000). Hanging the kaiser: Anglo-Dutch relations and the fate of Wilhelm II, 1918-20. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 11(2), 53-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592290008406157
  • Ashton, Nigel J (1999). Managing Transition: Macmillan and the Utility of Anglo-American Relations. In Aldous, R. & Lee, S. (Eds.), Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life (pp. 242-254). St Martin's Press.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (1997). A microcosm of decline: British loss of nerve and military intervention in Jordan and Kuwait, 1958 and 1961. Historical Journal, 40(4), 1069-1083. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X97007401
  • Ashton, Nigel J (1996). Eisenhower, Macmillan and the problem of Nasser: Anglo-American relations and Arab nationalism, 1955-1959. (Studies in military and strategic history). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (1996). Macmillan and the Middle East. In Aldous, R. & Lee, S. (Eds.), Harold Macmillan and Britain's World Role (pp. 37-65). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (1993). The hijacking of a pact: the formation of the Baghdad Pact and the Anglo-American tensions in the Middle East, 1955-58. Review of International Studies, 19(2), 123-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210500118996
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  • Ashton, Nigel (2025). The Thatcher government and the Libyan campaign against dissidents in the United Kingdom, 1979-84. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2477563 picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel (2023). The unfinished history of the Iran-Iraq war: faith, firepower, and Iran's revolutionary guards. American Historical Review, 128(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad329 picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2 July 2022) Gulf War syndrome: British warnings over the risk of chemical and biological weapons release were ignored by the US in 1991. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J (10 June 2022) Gulf War Syndrome: British warnings over the risk of chemical and biological weapons release were ignored by the US in 1991. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Aldous, Richard, Ashton, Nigel (2022). David Reynolds: studies in competitive co-operation. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(1), 1 - 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2041802 picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J (3 March 2022) Chemical Maggie? Thatcher’s handling of the crisis caused by Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait and lessons for Boris Johnson. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2022). John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan: dependence and interdependence. In Cullinane, M. P. & Farr, M. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson (pp. 199 - 216). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72276-0_10 picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2018). British policy and Qaddafi's Libya: landmark victory in the battle for information rights. picture_as_pdf
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2017). A local terrorist made good: the Callaghan government and the Arab-Israeli peace process, 1977-79. Contemporary British History, 31(1), 114-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2016.1244010
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2017). Taking friends for granted: the Carter administration, Jordan and the Camp David Accords, 1977-80. Diplomatic History, 41(3), 620-645. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhw062
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2016). Searching for a just and lasting peace? Anglo-American relations and the road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242. International History Review, 38(1), 24 - 44. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2015.1018303
  • Ashton, Nigel (2015). King Hussein of Jordan. In Wright, J. & Casey, S. (Eds.), Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968–91 (pp. 97-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137500960_7
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2012). Book review: missions accomplished?: the United States and Iraq since World War I. H-Diplo Roundtable Review, XIII(26), 6-11.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2011). Book review: in the name of oil: Anglo-American relations in the Middle East, 1950-1958 - by Ivan L. G. Pearson. Journal of American Studies, 45(2), e27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875811000417
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2011). Book review: Three kings: the rise of an American empire in the Middle East after World War II. H-Diplo Roundtable Review, XII(14), 6-10.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2010). Jordan’s frustration with the Middle East peace process.
  • Ashton, Nigel J (2009). The Middle East: intractable conflict?: Jordan’s unavoidable stake in the Middle East peace process. (IDEAS reports - strategic updates SU003). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ashton, Nigel J. (2005). Harold Macmillan and the 'Golden Days' of Anglo-American relations revisited, 1957–63. Diplomatic History, 29(4), 691-723. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00511.x