Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Mumford, Andrew

doi:10.1057/ip.2014.40

All Outputs (8)

Ghostwriting History: Churchill, Kennedy and the Authenticity of Authorship (2024)
Journal Article

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 Joh... Read More about Ghostwriting History: Churchill, Kennedy and the Authenticity of Authorship.

Hybrid warfare: The continuation of ambiguity by other means (2022)
Journal Article

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... Read More about Hybrid warfare: The continuation of ambiguity by other means.

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars: reconceptualising the consequences of external support (2021)
Journal Article

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 intervent... Read More about Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) after proxy wars: reconceptualising the consequences of external support.

Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State (2020)
Journal Article

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... Read More about Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State.

Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China (2018)
Journal Article

Analysis of terrorism perpetrated by Uyghurs inside China and the presence of Uyghur fighters in the warzones from Afghanistan to Syria has been divided as to whether such violence constitutes the alignment of Uyghur groups like the Turkestan Islamis... Read More about Theory-testing Uyghur terrorism in China.

Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework (2016)
Journal Article

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, whilst existing literature within terrori... Read More about Terrorist learning: a new analytical framework.

Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics (2014)
Journal Article

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 see... Read More about Parallels, prescience and the past: analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics.