Dr Martyn Frampton

The main focus of my previous research has been the strategy, ideology and culture of Irish republican groups. I have also considered the response of the British State to such groups, with specific reference to the conflict in Northern Ireland. And more recently, I have expanded my focus to consider other analogous movements, particularly in the Middle East. My research interests include:

• Irish Republicanism
• The use of political violence and its use by non-State actors
• State responses to anti-State challenges
• The emergence of Islamism in the twentieth century

Books:

• Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism  (link is external) (Irish Academic Press: Dublin, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-0716530558
• The Long March: The Political Strategy of Sinn Fein 1981-2007 (link is external) (Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-0230202177.
• Talking to Terrorists: The search for peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque country (link is external) (Hurst and Co.: London; and Colombia University Press: New York, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-1850659662. [co-authored with Dr. John Bew and Inigo Gurruchaga]

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Books:

• ‘Between “Engagement” and a “Values-Led” Approach: Britain and the Muslim Brotherhood from 9/11 to the Arab Spring’, (link is external) in Lorenzo Vidino (ed.), Western Governments and Political Islam after 2011 (Al Mesbar: Dubai, 2013) [co-authored with Shiraz Maher]
• ‘Agents and Ambushes’: Britain’s “Dirty War” in Northern Ireland (link is external), in Samy Cohen (ed.), Democracies at War against Terrorism: A Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2008).

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

• “‘Don’t mention the war!’ Debating the notion of a ‘stalemate’ in Northern Ireland”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (link is external), 40, 2, June 2012, pp.  [co-authored with Dr. John Bew]
• ‘Dissident Irish Republican Violence: A Resurgent Threat?’, The Political Quarterly (link is external), 83, 2, April-June 2012, pp. 227-37
• ‘Debating the “Stalemate”: A Response to Dr. Dixon’, The Political Quarterly (link is external), 83, 2, April-June 2012, pp. 277-82.
• “Embuscades et agents secrets: la <<sale guerre>> des Britanniques en Irlande du Nord”, Critique Internationale (link is external), 41, (Octobre-Décembre 2008)
• “Sinn Féin and the European Arena: ‘Ourselves Alone’ or ‘Critical Engagement’?”, Irish Studies in International Affairs (link is external), 16 (2005)
• “‘Squaring the Circle’: The Foreign Policy of Sinn Féin, 1983-89”, Irish Political Studies (link is external), 19,2 (Winter 2004)

Pamphlets/Reports:

• The Return of the Militants: Dissident Irish Republican Violence, 2009-10 (link is external) (for the International Centre for the Study of Political Violence at King’s College, University of London, October 2010)
• Choosing our Friends Wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups (link is external) (Policy Exchange: London, 2009)
• Talking to Terrorists: The Myths, Misconceptions and Misapplications of the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Jerusalem Viewpoints (link is external), no. 566 (August-September, 2008) [co-authored with Dr. John Bew]

I welcome applications from candidates wishing to undertake doctoral research in the following areas:

• The conflict in Northern Ireland
• The use of political violence
• The culture of terrorist/insurgent/subversive groups
• State responses to subversive/violent challenges

Current PhD Students