Richard English: Does Terrorism Work? - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. During 20111-16 he was Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of eight books, including Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003), Terrorism: How to Respond (2009), and Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016). He is a frequent media commentator on terrorism, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the university of St. Andrews.

Research that has influenced Richard's career

Martha Crenshaw (2011), Explaining Terrorism

Charles Townshend (1984), Political Violence in Ireland

Eric Hobsbawm (1997), On History

Some of Richard's key research

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003)

Terrorism: How to Respond (2009)

Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016)

Further episodes of Talking Terror

Further podcasts by John F. Morrison

Website of John F. Morrison