Andrew Mumford (political scientist) explained

Birth Place:	North Yorkshire
Alma Mater:	University of Sheffield University of Warwick
Main Interests:	Proxy war Counter-Insurgency Terrorism US Foreign Policy
Workplaces:	University of Nottingham
Thesis Title:	From Belfast to Basra: Britain and the 'Tri-partite Counter-Insurgency Model'
Thesis Year:	2009
Thesis Url:	http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/2779
Doctoral Advisor:	Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Richard J. Aldrich
Discipline:	War studies

Andrew Mumford (born 1983^[1]) is a British political scientist, military historian, and Professor of War Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham.^[2] He is a member of the EU/NATO Hybrid Threats Centre of Excellence expert pool on security and has consulted the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO. In December 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^{[3] [4] [5]} He is the editor of the Bloomsbury book series Studies in Contemporary Warfare.^[6]

Academic career

In 2009, Mumford received his ESRC-funded PhD from the University of Warwick in International Relations. He was a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) at Pennsylvania State University in 2007, and taught at the University of Hull (2009-2010) and University of Sheffield (2010-2011). He served as the Book Review Editor of Civil Wars (2008-2012).

Between 2011 and 2015, Mumford was an Assistant Professor. He also served as an Associate Editor of Political Studies (2011-2017). Between 2015 and 2020, he was an Associate Professor. In 2020, Mumford was promoted to Professor.

Between 2020 and 2021, Mumford was a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Academic Fellow in the UK House of Commons International Affairs Unit.

Works

Monographs

• The West’s War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
• Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks (Georgetown University Press, 2017)
• Proxy Warfare (John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
• The Counter-insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare (Routledge, 2012)
• Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth: Britain and Irregular Warfare in the Past, Present, and Future (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011)

Co-edtited books

• The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare: Warrior-scholarship in Counter-insurgency (Routledge, 2013), with Bruno C. Reis
• International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge, 2011), with Aidan Hehir and Natasha Kuhrt

External links

• • Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China. Perspectives on Terrorism 12.5 (2018): 18–26.
• Proxy Warfare and the Future of Conflict. The RUSI Journal 158.2 (2013): 40–46.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Andrew Mumford . 2023-01-12 . Lownie Literary Agency . en.
2. Web site: Andrew Mumford . 2023-01-11 . University of Nottingham . en-GB.
3. Web site: Curriculum Vitae - Professor ANDREW MUMFORD, FRHistS . British International Studies Association.
4. Web site: Current Fellows & Members RHS . 2023-01-11 . The Royal Historical Society.
5. Web site: Dr Andrew Mumford becomes Fellow of Royal Historical Society – Campus News . 2023-01-12 . University of Nottingham . en-US.
6. Web site: Executive Committee BISA . 2023-01-11 . . en.