Alan Mumford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1158214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Mumford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mumford |
| SIGNATURE | MUMFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5343-5647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ghostwriting History
This article explores how ghostwritten works of history compromise the authenticity of authorship as a process and have a tainted historiographical utility as source material in international relations. Using the examples of Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy we analyse how these famous politicians-cum-historians used research assistants to gather and analyse historical documentation whilst preserving their right to claim authorship of prize-w…
Hybrid warfare
This article presents the study of ambiguity as the essence of hybrid warfare to reconcile it with the international political context. It addresses the gaps in the literature in an effort to elucidate the essence of hybrid warfare not as a separate concept, but rather as the symptom of a changing political environment. The analysis of the literature is reinforced by two case studies: the war in eastern Ukraine of 2014 and the South China Sea dis…
The West’s War Against Islamic State
On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inherent Resolve, a US-led 77 nation coalition, was launched to respond to the threat of Islamic State. The West’s War Against Islamic State offers the first history of Operation Inherent Resolve and the West’s war against ISIS, from its inception in 2014 to the fall of Raqqa in 2017. Andrew Mumford offer…
Forum
This forum provides an outlet for an assessment of research on the delegation of war to non-state armed groups in civil wars. Given the significant growth of studies concerned with this phenomenon over the last decade, this forum critically engages with the present state of the field. First, we canvass some of the most important theoretical developments to demonstrate the heterogeneity of the debate. Second, we expand on the theme of complexity a…
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars
The phenomenon of war by proxy has received inadequate academic analysis. At the same time, an understanding of how ex-combatants are demobilised, disarmed and reintegrated into society after conflicts that have seen large-scale third-party intervention has been systematically overlooked. In seeking to rectify this gap and transform understanding of peacebuilding after proxy wars, this article will enhance the conceptualisation of the effect of p…
Not Yet Dead
The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal a three-part assessment of the forms, establishment, and regulation of slavery from 2014 to 2017. Beginning with the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, it reveals the logistics of slavery through an innovat…
Understanding hybrid warfare
As the introduction to the special section on hybrid warfare, this paper establishes the contours of the contemporary debate about the topic, outlines the arguments made by the three papers that follow, and locates hybrid warfare in the broader realm of strategic thought. Enhancing the conceptual basis that hybrid war is grounded in allows us to understand the broader strategic implications of ambiguous uses of force. Collectively, the papers in …
Surrogate Warfare
To the already well-laden smorgasbord of phrases used to describe modern forms of warfare—hybrid, decentralized, nonobvious, vicarious, ambiguous, gray zone, unrestricted, remote, fourth (or even fifth) generation—Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli have added their own slice of terminology: surrogate warfare. They define this phenomenon as “the delegation and substitution of the burden of warfare, partially or wholly, to a deputy” (p. 3). This al…
Terrorist Learning
Terrorists learn every day to gain further knowledge on how to achieve their violent objectives. Consequently, understanding terrorist learning forms a crucial part of the fight to counter terrorism. However, while existing literature within terrorism studies has examined a number of different parts of the learning process, there currently fails to exist a comprehensive framework to encompass the learning process as a whole. This article will rec…
Parallels, prescience and the past
Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’, we have arguably seen the rise of a more potent form of analogy, namely ones that are selected because they fulfil an ideological function. Analogical reasoning as a tool of rational decision making has increasingly bec…
Times of Troubles
Veteran Care in the United Kingdom and the Sustainability of the ‘Military Covenant’
This article assesses how veteran care can be placed at the centre of our understanding of the modern Military Covenant and located as a key issue in contemporary civil–military relations and public policy. Healthcare and welfare provision have become primary manifestations of how the British state fulfils its duty of care towards military personnel. The article aims to present an overview of current provision for veterans of Britain's modern war…
Covert Peacemaking
This paper explores the major negotiation initiatives undertaken during the early ‘Troubles’, at the height of Britain's counter-insurgency campaign between 1972 and 1976. It analyses the first significant talks undertaken, namely the ‘Whitelaw talks’ of July 1972, marking the beginning of a tendency towards secret dialogue, permitted again during the clergy-led talks at Feakle in December 1974. Clandestine subtlety characterised the establishmen…
Sir Robert Thompson’s Lessons for Iraq
Counter‐insurgency is back. Since the degeneration of post‐invasion Afghanistan and Iraq into asymmetric quagmires, the US‐led coalition has sought to ‘relearn’ counter‐insurgency, and indeed some
Unnecessary or unsung? The utilisation of airpower in Britain's colonial counterinsurgencies
Making extensive use of primary archival documents, this article seeks to explore whether airpower in three of Britain's most significant post-war colonial counterinsurgency campaigns, Malaya, Kenya and South Arabia, was an unnecessary part of British strategy, offering little useful military force due to the futility and strategic damage rendered by offensive bombardment, or whether airpower was indeed an unsung factor that provided operational …
Torture, Rights, Rules and Wars
This piece1 responds to some of the challenges posed by Rosemary Foot in her article, 'Torture: The Struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era', also published in International Relations. It looks again at the debates about the seeming rise in the acceptability of torture in the post-9/11 environment, reflects on what the use of 'torture' in Ireland during the 1970s might tell us, and suggests ways of thinking about rules, norms a…
Intelligence Wars
This article compares the attitudes and actions of the American political and intelligence communities towards Irish republicanism since the start of the 'Troubles' and Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan before 9/11. It argues that while romantic notions of both groups' struggles existed in political circles, the intelligence agencies have always retained a strong counter-terrorist strategy, especially after IRA violence escalated in the 1970s…
Developing Top Managers
Parallels, prescience and the past
Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’, we have arguably seen the rise of a more potent form of analogy, namely ones that are selected because they fulfil an ideological function. Analogical reasoning as a tool of rational decision making has increasingly bec…
Hybrid warfare
This article presents the study of ambiguity as the essence of hybrid warfare to reconcile it with the international political context. It addresses the gaps in the literature in an effort to elucidate the essence of hybrid warfare not as a separate concept, but rather as the symptom of a changing political environment. The analysis of the literature is reinforced by two case studies: the war in eastern Ukraine of 2014 and the South China Sea dis…
Terrorist Learning
Terrorists learn every day to gain further knowledge on how to achieve their violent objectives. Consequently, understanding terrorist learning forms a crucial part of the fight to counter terrorism. However, while existing literature within terrorism studies has examined a number of different parts of the learning process, there currently fails to exist a comprehensive framework to encompass the learning process as a whole. This article will rec…
Covert Peacemaking
This paper explores the major negotiation initiatives undertaken during the early ‘Troubles’, at the height of Britain's counter-insurgency campaign between 1972 and 1976. It analyses the first significant talks undertaken, namely the ‘Whitelaw talks’ of July 1972, marking the beginning of a tendency towards secret dialogue, permitted again during the clergy-led talks at Feakle in December 1974. Clandestine subtlety characterised the establishmen…
Not Yet Dead
The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal a three-part assessment of the forms, establishment, and regulation of slavery from 2014 to 2017. Beginning with the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, it reveals the logistics of slavery through an innovat…
Understanding hybrid warfare
As the introduction to the special section on hybrid warfare, this paper establishes the contours of the contemporary debate about the topic, outlines the arguments made by the three papers that follow, and locates hybrid warfare in the broader realm of strategic thought. Enhancing the conceptual basis that hybrid war is grounded in allows us to understand the broader strategic implications of ambiguous uses of force. Collectively, the papers in …
Forum
This forum provides an outlet for an assessment of research on the delegation of war to non-state armed groups in civil wars. Given the significant growth of studies concerned with this phenomenon over the last decade, this forum critically engages with the present state of the field. First, we canvass some of the most important theoretical developments to demonstrate the heterogeneity of the debate. Second, we expand on the theme of complexity a…
Veteran Care in the United Kingdom and the Sustainability of the ‘Military Covenant’
This article assesses how veteran care can be placed at the centre of our understanding of the modern Military Covenant and located as a key issue in contemporary civil–military relations and public policy. Healthcare and welfare provision have become primary manifestations of how the British state fulfils its duty of care towards military personnel. The article aims to present an overview of current provision for veterans of Britain's modern war…
Sir Robert Thompson’s Lessons for Iraq
Counter‐insurgency is back. Since the degeneration of post‐invasion Afghanistan and Iraq into asymmetric quagmires, the US‐led coalition has sought to ‘relearn’ counter‐insurgency, and indeed some
Ghostwriting History
This article explores how ghostwritten works of history compromise the authenticity of authorship as a process and have a tainted historiographical utility as source material in international relations. Using the examples of Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy we analyse how these famous politicians-cum-historians used research assistants to gather and analyse historical documentation whilst preserving their right to claim authorship of prize-w…
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars
The phenomenon of war by proxy has received inadequate academic analysis. At the same time, an understanding of how ex-combatants are demobilised, disarmed and reintegrated into society after conflicts that have seen large-scale third-party intervention has been systematically overlooked. In seeking to rectify this gap and transform understanding of peacebuilding after proxy wars, this article will enhance the conceptualisation of the effect of p…
Unnecessary or unsung? The utilisation of airpower in Britain's colonial counterinsurgencies
Making extensive use of primary archival documents, this article seeks to explore whether airpower in three of Britain's most significant post-war colonial counterinsurgency campaigns, Malaya, Kenya and South Arabia, was an unnecessary part of British strategy, offering little useful military force due to the futility and strategic damage rendered by offensive bombardment, or whether airpower was indeed an unsung factor that provided operational …
Surrogate Warfare
To the already well-laden smorgasbord of phrases used to describe modern forms of warfare—hybrid, decentralized, nonobvious, vicarious, ambiguous, gray zone, unrestricted, remote, fourth (or even fifth) generation—Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli have added their own slice of terminology: surrogate warfare. They define this phenomenon as “the delegation and substitution of the burden of warfare, partially or wholly, to a deputy” (p. 3). This al…
Times of Troubles
Torture, Rights, Rules and Wars
This piece1 responds to some of the challenges posed by Rosemary Foot in her article, 'Torture: The Struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era', also published in International Relations. It looks again at the debates about the seeming rise in the acceptability of torture in the post-9/11 environment, reflects on what the use of 'torture' in Ireland during the 1970s might tell us, and suggests ways of thinking about rules, norms a…
Intelligence Wars
This article compares the attitudes and actions of the American political and intelligence communities towards Irish republicanism since the start of the 'Troubles' and Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan before 9/11. It argues that while romantic notions of both groups' struggles existed in political circles, the intelligence agencies have always retained a strong counter-terrorist strategy, especially after IRA violence escalated in the 1970s…
Developing Top Managers
Intelligence Wars
This article compares the attitudes and actions of the American political and intelligence communities towards Irish republicanism since the start of the 'Troubles' and Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan before 9/11. It argues that while romantic notions of both groups' struggles existed in political circles, the intelligence agencies have always retained a strong counter-terrorist strategy, especially after IRA violence escalated in the 1970s…
Torture, Rights, Rules and Wars
This piece1 responds to some of the challenges posed by Rosemary Foot in her article, 'Torture: The Struggle over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era', also published in International Relations. It looks again at the debates about the seeming rise in the acceptability of torture in the post-9/11 environment, reflects on what the use of 'torture' in Ireland during the 1970s might tell us, and suggests ways of thinking about rules, norms a…
Unnecessary or unsung? The utilisation of airpower in Britain's colonial counterinsurgencies
Making extensive use of primary archival documents, this article seeks to explore whether airpower in three of Britain's most significant post-war colonial counterinsurgency campaigns, Malaya, Kenya and South Arabia, was an unnecessary part of British strategy, offering little useful military force due to the futility and strategic damage rendered by offensive bombardment, or whether airpower was indeed an unsung factor that provided operational …
Sir Robert Thompson’s Lessons for Iraq
Counter‐insurgency is back. Since the degeneration of post‐invasion Afghanistan and Iraq into asymmetric quagmires, the US‐led coalition has sought to ‘relearn’ counter‐insurgency, and indeed some
Covert Peacemaking
This paper explores the major negotiation initiatives undertaken during the early ‘Troubles’, at the height of Britain's counter-insurgency campaign between 1972 and 1976. It analyses the first significant talks undertaken, namely the ‘Whitelaw talks’ of July 1972, marking the beginning of a tendency towards secret dialogue, permitted again during the clergy-led talks at Feakle in December 1974. Clandestine subtlety characterised the establishmen…
Veteran Care in the United Kingdom and the Sustainability of the ‘Military Covenant’
This article assesses how veteran care can be placed at the centre of our understanding of the modern Military Covenant and located as a key issue in contemporary civil–military relations and public policy. Healthcare and welfare provision have become primary manifestations of how the British state fulfils its duty of care towards military personnel. The article aims to present an overview of current provision for veterans of Britain's modern war…
Times of Troubles
Parallels, prescience and the past
Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the ‘War on Terror’, we have arguably seen the rise of a more potent form of analogy, namely ones that are selected because they fulfil an ideological function. Analogical reasoning as a tool of rational decision making has increasingly bec…
Terrorist Learning
Terrorists learn every day to gain further knowledge on how to achieve their violent objectives. Consequently, understanding terrorist learning forms a crucial part of the fight to counter terrorism. However, while existing literature within terrorism studies has examined a number of different parts of the learning process, there currently fails to exist a comprehensive framework to encompass the learning process as a whole. This article will rec…
Not Yet Dead
The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal a three-part assessment of the forms, establishment, and regulation of slavery from 2014 to 2017. Beginning with the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, it reveals the logistics of slavery through an innovat…
Understanding hybrid warfare
As the introduction to the special section on hybrid warfare, this paper establishes the contours of the contemporary debate about the topic, outlines the arguments made by the three papers that follow, and locates hybrid warfare in the broader realm of strategic thought. Enhancing the conceptual basis that hybrid war is grounded in allows us to understand the broader strategic implications of ambiguous uses of force. Collectively, the papers in …
Surrogate Warfare
To the already well-laden smorgasbord of phrases used to describe modern forms of warfare—hybrid, decentralized, nonobvious, vicarious, ambiguous, gray zone, unrestricted, remote, fourth (or even fifth) generation—Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli have added their own slice of terminology: surrogate warfare. They define this phenomenon as “the delegation and substitution of the burden of warfare, partially or wholly, to a deputy” (p. 3). This al…
The West’s War Against Islamic State
On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inherent Resolve, a US-led 77 nation coalition, was launched to respond to the threat of Islamic State. The West’s War Against Islamic State offers the first history of Operation Inherent Resolve and the West’s war against ISIS, from its inception in 2014 to the fall of Raqqa in 2017. Andrew Mumford offer…
Forum
This forum provides an outlet for an assessment of research on the delegation of war to non-state armed groups in civil wars. Given the significant growth of studies concerned with this phenomenon over the last decade, this forum critically engages with the present state of the field. First, we canvass some of the most important theoretical developments to demonstrate the heterogeneity of the debate. Second, we expand on the theme of complexity a…
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars
The phenomenon of war by proxy has received inadequate academic analysis. At the same time, an understanding of how ex-combatants are demobilised, disarmed and reintegrated into society after conflicts that have seen large-scale third-party intervention has been systematically overlooked. In seeking to rectify this gap and transform understanding of peacebuilding after proxy wars, this article will enhance the conceptualisation of the effect of p…
Hybrid warfare
This article presents the study of ambiguity as the essence of hybrid warfare to reconcile it with the international political context. It addresses the gaps in the literature in an effort to elucidate the essence of hybrid warfare not as a separate concept, but rather as the symptom of a changing political environment. The analysis of the literature is reinforced by two case studies: the war in eastern Ukraine of 2014 and the South China Sea dis…
Ghostwriting History
This article explores how ghostwritten works of history compromise the authenticity of authorship as a process and have a tainted historiographical utility as source material in international relations. Using the examples of Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy we analyse how these famous politicians-cum-historians used research assistants to gather and analyse historical documentation whilst preserving their right to claim authorship of prize-w…
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