Staff Profiles

Prof JW Dumbrell, MA(Cantab); MA; PhD(Keele)

Contact (email at j.w.dumbrell@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

• Government
• International Relations/International Political Economy
• Working Papers

Research Interests

• Contemporary American Foreign Relations
• The Presidency of Bill Clinton
• US-UK relations following the end of the Cold War

Publications

Articles: magazine

• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy: Hillary's World'. The World Today 64(1).
• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'The Delayed Arrival of a New President; Transition Trauma'. The World Today 64(11).

Books: authored

• Dumbrell, John 2009. Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000. London and New York: Routledge. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. A special relationship Anglo-American relations from the Cold War to Iraq. Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2004. President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2001. A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and After. Handmill, Hampshire: Macmillan. (Additional information)

Books: edited

• Dumbrell, John & Ryan, David 2006. Vietnam in Iraqtactics, lessons, legacies and ghosts. New York: Routledge. (Additional information)

Conference contributions

• Dumbrell, John 2005, Evaluating the Foreign Policy of President Clinton, or Bill Clinton: Between the Bushes, Eccles Centre Plenary Lectures British Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2005. Cambridge University, British Library, London, 22. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Departmental working papers

• Dumbrell, John W. 2007. 'The Bush administration, US public diplomacy and Iran'. (07/04). (Additional information)

Edited essays

• Dumbrell, John & Owens, John E. 2008. America's "War on Terrorism": New Dimensions in US Government and National Security. Lanham Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (Additional information)

Edited works: contributions

• Dumbrell, John 2009. 'US-IK Relations: Structure, Agency and the Special Relationship'. In The Blair Legacy: Politics, Governance and Foreign Affairs. Casey, Terrence London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'America in the 1990s: Searching for Purpose'. In US Foreign Policy. Cox, Michael & Stokes, Doug Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 88-104. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'American Leadership into the New Century'. In American Thought and Culture in 21st Century. Halliwell, Martin & Morley, Catherine Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 35-48. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'The Neoconservative Roots of the War in Iraq'. In Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives. Pfiffner, James P. & Phythian, Mark Manchester: Manchester University Press. 19-39. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'La 'Relacion Especiale': Anglo-Estadounidense Despues da la Guerra Fria'. In ?Somos Especiales? Las Relacions de Mexico, Gran Bretana con Estudos Unidos: Una Vision Comparada. De Castro, Rafael Fernandez, Whitehead, Lawrence & Salamocchia, Natalia Mexico City: ITAM. 139-151.
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'President George W. Bush and Northern Irland'. In A Farewell to Arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement. Cox, Michael,, Guelke, Adrian, & Stephen, Fiona Manchester: Manchester University Press. 357-366. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'President Kerry's Foreign Policy: Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary American Foreign Policy'. In Right On?Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America. Morgan,Iwan W. & Davies,Philip J. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas. 59-74. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'The Iraq and Vietnam Wars: some parallels and connections'. In Vietnam in Iraq. Dumbrell, John & Ryan, David London: Routledge. 209-222. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2005. 'Bush's War: the Iraq Conflict and American Democracy'. In The Iraq War and Democratic Politics. Danchev, Alex & MacMillan, John London: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 35-47. (Additional information)
• Dumbrell, John 2003. 'Foreign Policy'. In Governing Americathe Politics of a Divided Democracy . Hancke, Bob & Singh, Robert Oxford: Oxford University Press. 267-285. (Additional information)

Journal papers: academic

• Dumbrell, John 2009. 'The US-UK Special Relationship: Taking the 21st Century Temperature'. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 11(1): 64-78. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2008. 'President Clinton's Secretaries of State; Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies 6(3): 217-227. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John & Owens, J.E. 2006. 'Introduction: Politics and Policy in America's 'War' on Terror'. Politics and Policy 34(2): 233-256. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'Revisiting US Presidential Power'. Politics Review 15(4): 2-4. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Davies, Philip, Dumbrell, John, Meehan, Elizabeth, Hames, Tim & Williams, Shirley 2006. 'The Grinding Reality of Realpolitik: Current and Future Directions in the UK, USA and Europe'. 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences 1(1): 73-98. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2006. 'Working with Allies: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the War on Terror'. Politics & Policy 34(2): 452-472. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2005. 'American isolationism: a response to David Hastings Dunn'. Review of International Studies 31(4): 699-700. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2005. 'Winston Churchill and American foreign relations: John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies 3(1): 31-42. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2004. 'Examining Political Change and Presidential Power in the US'. Journal of American Studies 38(3): 489-495. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2004. 'The US-UK 'Special Relationship' in a world twice transformed'. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17(3): 437-450. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John & Ellis, Sylvia 2003. 'British Involvement in Vietnam Peace Initiatives, 1966-1967: Marigolds, Sunflowers, and 'Kosygin Week''. Diplomatic History 27(1): 113-149. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2002. 'Unilateralism and `America First'? President George W. Bush's Foreign Policy'. The Political Quarterly 73(3): 279-287. (Additional information) (View publication online)
• Dumbrell, John 2002. 'Was There a Clinton Doctrine? President Clinton's Foreign Policy Reconsidered'. Diplomacy & Statecraft 13(2): 43-56. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

• Politics & Society: American Politics
• Government: American Politics
• International politics: American Politics
• Social sciences: American Politics
• Politics & Society: Anglo-American relations
• International politics: Anglo-American relations