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Biography
Prof. Andrew Mumford is the 糖心原创's first Professor of War Studies. His primary research area is analysis of the historical and contemporary political management of warfare - especially the British and American experience.
His first book The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular War (Routledge, 2011) offers a macro-level history of the evolution of British responses to asymmetric insurgent threats. Andrew has published journal articles on a range of issues that explore how the British state in particular has attempted to deal with insurgencies, including torture, negotiations and reliance on air power. His second book , Proxy Warfare, published by Polity in spring 2013 offered one of the first major modern assessments of indirect military engagement in pre-existing wars. His latest book, Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance was published in 2017 by Georgetown University Press, and assesses the so-called 'special relationship' through the lens of the most common form of post-1945 warfare. He has co-edited a further two books. His next book, The West's War Against ISIS, will be published in 2021 by IB Tauris and offers a concise campaign history of Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq.
Andrew gained his PhD from the University of Warwick in International Relations. He has been a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the 糖心原创 of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University, and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield and Hull.
In 2020-21 he is on a part-time secondment to the House of Commons International Affairs Unit as a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Academic Fellow.
He is the editor of the 'Studies in Contemporary Warfare' book series with IB Tauris.
Expertise Summary
Andrew Mumford is a Professor of War Studies whose primary research area is analysis of the historical and contemporary political management of warfare - especially the British and American experience.
His first book The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular War (Routledge, 2011) offers a macro-level history of the evolution of British responses to asymmetric insurgent threats. Andrew has published journal articles on a range of issues that explore how the British state in particular has attempted to deal with insurgencies, including torture, negotiations and reliance on air power. His second book , Proxy Warfare, published by Polity in spring 2013 offered one of the first major modern assessments of indirect military engagement in pre-existing wars. His latest book, Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance was published in 2017 by Georgetown University Press, and assesses the so-called 'special relationship' through the lens of the most common form of post-1945 warfare. He has co-edited a further two books. His next book, The West's War Against ISIS, will be published in 2021 by IB Tauris and offers a concise campaign history of Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq.
Teaching Summary
Andrew teaches modules across the International Relations and Security Studies spectrum.
Level 3: The War in Iraq (M13193)
Postgraduate: Contemporary Warfare (M14140/1)
Research Summary
Prof. Andrew Mumford is the 糖心原创's first Professor of War Studies. His primary research area is analysis of the historical and contemporary political management of warfare -… read more
Selected Publications
MUMFORD, A., 2012. The counter-insurgency myth: the British experience of irregular warfare Routledge.
ANDREW MUMFORD, AIDAN HEHIR & NATASHA KUHRT, ed., 2011. International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the Post-9/11 World Routledge.
MUMFORD, A., 2011. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 39(4), 633-648
ANDREW MUMFORD, 2011. 鈥楶uncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth: Britain and Irregular Warfare in the Past, Present and Future鈥�
Current Research
Prof. Andrew Mumford is the 糖心原创's first Professor of War Studies. His primary research area is analysis of the historical and contemporary political management of warfare - especially the British and American experience.
His first book The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular War (Routledge, 2011) offers a macro-level history of the evolution of British responses to asymmetric insurgent threats. Andrew has published journal articles on a range of issues that explore how the British state in particular has attempted to deal with insurgencies, including torture, negotiations and reliance on air power. His second book , Proxy Warfare, published by Polity in spring 2013 offered one of the first major modern assessments of indirect military engagement in pre-existing wars. His latest book, Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance was published in 2017 by Georgetown University Press, and assesses the so-called 'special relationship' through the lens of the most common form of post-1945 warfare. He has co-edited a further two books. His next book, The West's War Against ISIS, will be published in 2021 by IB Tauris and offers a concise campaign history of Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq.
Publications
BOOKS
鈥� Counter-Insurgency Warfare and the Anglo-American Alliance: The 'Special Relationship' on the Rocks (Georgetown University Press, 2017)
鈥� Proxy Warfare (Polity, 2013)
鈥� The Theory and Practice of Counter-Insurgency: Warrior-Scholarship in Irregular War (edited with Bruno Reis) (Routledge, 2013)
鈥� The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare (Routledge: 2011)
鈥� International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the Post-9/11 World, edited with Aidan Hehir and Natasha Kurht (Routledge: 2011)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- Yet Dead': The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (forthcoming 2020; accepted December 2019)
- Uyghur Terrorism in China', Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol.12 No.5 (2018), pp.18-26.
鈥� 'Terrorist Learning: A New Analytical Framework' (with Louise Kettle), Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol.40 No.7 (2017), p.523-38.
鈥� 'Parallels, Prescience and the Past: Analogical Reasoning and Contemporary International Politics', International Politics, Vol.52 No.1 (2015), pp.1-19.
鈥� 'Policing in Kenya during the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-60' (with Huw Bennett), in C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly (ed), Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (Oxford University Press, 2014)
鈥� 'Iron Fists and Hidden Hands: Intelligence in British Counter-Insurgency', Inteligencia Y Seguridad (Spanish Journal of Intelligence and Security) No.13 (2013), pp. 129-165.
鈥� 'Proxy Warfare and the Future of Conflict', RUSI Journal, Vol.158 No.2 (2013), pp.40-46.
鈥� 'Warrior Scholarship in the Age of Globalised Insurgency: The Work of David Kilcullen' in Andrew Mumford and Bruno C. Reis (ed), The Theory and Practice of Counter-Insurgency: Warrior-Scholarship in Irregular War (Routledge, 2013)
鈥� 'Veteran Care in the UK and the Sustainability of the 'Military Covenant', The Political Quarterly, Vol.83 No.4 (2012), pp.820-26.
鈥� 'Minimum Force Meets Brutality: Detention, Interrogation and Torture in British Counter-Insurgency Campaigns', Journal of Military Ethics, Vol.11 No.1 (2012), pp.10-25.
鈥� 'Covert Peacemaking: Clandestine Negotiations and Backchannels with the Provisional IRA during the early 'Troubles', 1972-76', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol.39 No.4 (2011), pp.633-48.
鈥� 'Al-Qaeda and Networked International Insurgency', in Aidan Hehir, Natasha Kurht and Andrew Mumford (ed), International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge: 2011).
鈥� 'Robert Thompson's Lessons for Iraq: Bringing the Five Basic Principles of Counter-Insurgency into the Twenty-First Century', Defence Studies, Vol.10 No.1/2 (2010), pp.177-94.
鈥� 'Unnecessary or Unsung? The Role of Air Power in Britain's Colonial Counter-Insurgencies', Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol.20 No3/4 (2009), pp.636-55.
鈥� 'Is Torture Ever Justified? Torture, Rights and Rules from Northern Ireland to Iraq' (with Caroline Kennedy-Pipe) in Anthony Lang and Amanda Beattie (ed) War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security (London: Routledge, 2009), pp.54-68.
鈥� 'Torture, Rights, Rules and War: Ireland to Iraq' (with Caroline Kennedy-Pipe), International Relations, Vol.21 No.1 (March 2007) pp.121-128.
鈥� 'Intelligence Wars: Ireland and Afghanistan - The American Experience', Civil Wars, Vol.7 No.4 (Winter 2005) pp.377-395.