Andrew Mumford (political scientist)
Andrew Mumford  (born 1983) 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. 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. He is the editor of the Bloomsbury book series Studies in Contemporary Warfare. 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. References

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of Warwick
British political scientists
21st-century British historians
British military historians
1983 births
Living people
People from North Yorkshire
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Alumni of the University of Sheffield