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Dr Banks' wargaming research has been published in International Studies Review , Georgetown Press , and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.
He is also published in International Studies Quarterly and Security Studies , a variety of academic edited volumes, and media outlets including The Washington Post , Time , The Independent , Chicago Tribune , Navy Times, U.S. News & World Report, and has appeared on BBC News.
David Banks is a Senior Lecturer in Wargaming at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he also serves as the Academic Director of the King’s Wargaming Network. His current wargaming research focuses on determining epistemological standards for evaluating wargames as a research method. This includes projects on the foundations of wargaming, linking theory to design, and the role of subject matter experts in professional wargames. In addition to his wargaming research, Dr Banks also studies diplomatic practice in international society, with a particular emphasis on symbolic and rhetorical diplomacy. His current book manuscript examines the motivation for, and political consequences of, state violations of diplomatic practice.
Dr Banks has designed wargames on topics such as counterinsurgency in Nigeria, great power diplomatic crises, diplomatic bargaining, NATO sub-threshold conflict, NGO and civil society politics in repressive regimes, cybersecurity threats, and global strategic trends for clients including NATO, the Marine Corps University, Accenture, the Axel and Margaret Ax Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, and others.
He received his PhD in International Relations and Methods from George Washington University in Washington, DC.