Dr Andrew Sanders

Andrew Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. A PhD graduate of Queen's University Belfast, he is the author of multiple books and research articles with a focus on the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. His current research investigates the role of the state in conflict. He has wide ranging teaching experience from a decade in the United States and has specialised in US politics as well as courses across fields such as International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Institute of History 

Monographs:

• The Long Peace Process: The United States of America and Northern Ireland, 1960-2000 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019).o ISBN – 978-1-78694-044-5
• Times of Troubles: Britain’s War in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, May 2012). Co-authored with Ian S. Wood.o ISBN – 978 0 7486 4655 2
• Inside the IRA: Dissident republicans and the war for legitimacy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).o ISBN – 978 0 7486 4112 3

Edited Volumes:

• “The British state and Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland”, in Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, Przemyslaw Gasztold (eds.), Terrorism in the Cold War: The West, Middle East and Latin America (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).o ISBN – 978-0-7556-0027-4
• “Sinn Féin’s Transition From Abstention to Assembly: The Domestic and International Perspective” pp. 200-223 in Nic Dháibhéid, C., and Reid, C., (eds.) From Parnell to Paisley: Constitutional and Revolutionary Politics in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010). o ISBN - 978-0716530619

Journal Articles:

• Critical Studies on Terrorism “Decapitation and paramilitary feuds in Northern Ireland, 1969-1992”, available online 10 June 2022o https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2022.2084275
• Small Wars and Insurgencies Special Edition “‘Attempting to deal with the past’: historical inquiries, legacy prosecutions, and Operation Banner” Vol. 32, Issue 4-5, 2021o https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2021.1875306
• Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 43, 2020, “The Canadian Dimension to the Northern Ireland Conflict”
• Contemporary British History Vol. 33, Issue 1, 2019 (available online October 2018), pp. 75-97 “The 1985 Supplementary Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the United Kingdom: an exercise in soft power”
• Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 41, Issue 5, 2018, pp. 659-683, “Principles of Minimum Force and the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland, 1969-1972”
• Irish Studies in International Affairs Vol. 28 (2017), pp. 147-171 “Landing Rights in Dublin: Relations between Ireland and the United States 1945–72”
• Diplomacy and Statecraft Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 121-141 “Congressional hearings on Northern Ireland and the ‘Special Relationship’, 1971-1980”
• The Journal of Transatlantic Studies Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 163-181 (2014) “The role of Northern Ireland in modern Anglo-American relations: The United States Department of State and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, 1979.”

• Terrorism and Political Violence
• The Politics of the United States
• The Northern Ireland conflict
• US-UK relationsIrish-American relations

• American Politics
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• Politics and International Relations

Queen’s University Belfast, UK

• PhD in Politics and International Studies
• MA in Irish Politics, 2005

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

• BSc (hons.) Social and Management Science

The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Political Science External Graduate Committee Adviser 2019-2021

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin TX

• Political Science Advisory Committee, 2018-2020

• American Political Science Association
• European Political Science Association
• American Conference for Irish Studies
• Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses

• European Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland “The Necropolitics of One-Sided Violence: State Violence and Post Conflict Justice Processes in Northern Ireland”, 24 June 2023
• AEDEI (Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses), Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain, “‘Have you seen the Clintons knocking about around here?’ Derry Girls, the United States, and the Good Friday Agreement at 25”, 1 June 2023
• European Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Prague, Czechia “The Necropolitics of Military Amnesty: Peacebuilding after the Troubles”, 24 June 2022
• Southwestern Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX “The Necropolitics of Military Amnesty: Peacebuilding after the Troubles”, 22 April 2022
• IASIL (International Associate for the Study of Irish Literature), Annual Meeting, Lodz, Poland (conference took place virtually) ‘And we were proud in the knowledge that we were the Jews’: The Poetry of Sammy Duddy and the Future of Ulster Loyalism”, 22 July 2021
• AEDEI (Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses), Annual Meeting, Vigo, Spain (conference took place virtually) “Whatever you say, say nothing: The Silence of the Past and Dealing with the Future in Northern Ireland”, 28 May 2021
• American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco (conference took place virtually) “Brexit, PEACE, and the Future of the Northern Ireland Peace Process” 10 September 2020
• University of Salford ‘Symposium on the First Decade of “The Troubles”: What we now know, and what we don’t know, about the role of security and intelligence’, Salford, UK, June 12 and 13, 2019
• American Conference for Irish Studies, National Meeting Boston, MA “The New IRA: Reflections on the Northern Ireland Peace Process on the eve of Brexit” 20-23 March 2019

• 2020 University of Notre Dame Cushwa Hibernian Research Grant, $2000
• 2018 George Mason University Institute of Humane Studies Hayek Fund, $2500