| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2025.
      
      France’s debt-for-development contracts: from blame avoidance to credit claiming?
      French Politics
      23
      
      , pp. 384-405.
      
      10.1057/s41253-025-00295-2   | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2025.
      
      La Grande-Bretagne et la France en Afrique : une entente fort minable ou formidable ?
      AOC
      2025
      
      
      , 25 July.   | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 and Harrois, Thibaud
      2025.
      
      Franco-British cooperation in Africa and
Europe.
      Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study
      24
      
      
      
      10.5281/zenodo.15469924   | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2024.
      Recognising leadership potential: looking beyond comparative perspectives on aid.
       Akande, Adebowale, ed.
      
      Leadership and Politics,
       
      Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice (SSPIPSJ),
      
      
       
      
      Springer Nature,
      pp. 509-536.
      (10.1007/978-3-031-56415-4_21) | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, Van Der Velde, Roel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547 and Chafer, Tony
      2024.
      
      Understanding the performance, survival and collapse of African ad hoc military coalitions.
      African Security
      17
      
        (1-2)
      
      , pp. 87-114.
      
      10.1080/19392206.2024.2366721 Item availability restricted. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, Van Der Velde, Roel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547 and Chafer, Tony
      2022.
      
      Understanding the public response: a strategic narrative perspective on France’s Sahelian operations.
      European Security
      31
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 617-638.
      
      10.1080/09662839.2022.2038568 | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony, Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 and van der Velde, Roel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547
      2020.
      France's interventions in Mali and the Sahel: a historical institutionalist perspective.
       Recchia, Stefano and Tardy, Thierry, eds.
      
      French Interventions in Africa: Reluctant Multilateralism,
       
      
      
      
       
      Abingdon and New York: 
      Routledge, | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony, Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 and van der Velde, Roel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547
      2020.
      France's interventions in Mali and the Sahel: A historical institutionalist perspective.
       Recchia, Stefano and Tardy, Thierry, eds.
      
      French Interventions in Africa: Reluctant Multilateralism,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Routledge,
      pp. 10-35. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2020.
      
      France in the Sahel: a case of the reluctant multilateralist.
      The Conversation   | 
|  | 
| Chafer, Tony, Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 and van der Velde, Roel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-6547
      2020.
      
      France’s interventions in Mali and the Sahel: a historical institutionalist perspective.
      Journal of Strategic Studies
      43
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 482-507.
      
      10.1080/01402390.2020.1733987 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2018.
      
      Towards an enhanced understanding of aid policy reform: learning from the French case.
      Public Administration and Development
      38
      
        (5)
      
      , pp. 179-189.
      
      10.1002/pad.1842 | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2017.
      Europeanisation through the prism of regime complexity: the case of French aid.
       Carbone, Maurizio and Orbie, Jan, eds.
      
      The Europeanisation of Development Policy,
       
      
      
      
       
      London: 
      Routledge,
      pp. 12-27.
      (10.4324/9781315174280)   | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2017.
      
      Transforming French aid and the AFD: the Severino years.
      Presented at: AFD Conference: 75 Years,
      Paris, France,
      30 November 2017. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2017.
      La transformation de l'AFD et de l'aide française au cours des années Severino: vers une nouvelle compréhension des réformes de politiques publiques.
       Geraud, Gael, ed.
      
      Actes du Colloque d'histoire: De 1941 à 2016: 75 ans d'engagement - L'Agence, ses origines, ses partenaires et ses terrains d'action,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Agence française de développement,
      pp. 654-676. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2017.
      
      A prototypical case in the making? Challenging comparative perspectives on French aid.
      European Journal of Development Research
      29
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 19-36.
      
      10.1057/ejdr.2015.62   | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2016.
      The EU in Sudan: a missed opportunity?
       Torrent, Melanie and Roiron, Virginie, eds.
      
      The Commonwealth and the European Union in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in International Relations,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Routledge, | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2016.
      
      Europeanisation through the prism of regime complexity: the case of French aid.
      European Politics and Society
      17
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 12-27.
      
      10.1080/23745118.2015.1075763   | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2016.
      French Aid through the comparative looking glass: a representative, deviant, or agenda-setting case?
       Elgie, Robert, Grossman, Emiliano and Mazur, Amy, eds.
      
      The Oxford handbook of French politics,
       
      Oxford Handbooks,
      
      
       
      
      Oxford University Press, | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2015.
      
      The European Union in Sudan: a missed opportunity?
      Round Table
      104
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 473-488.
      
      10.1080/00358533.2015.1063842   | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2015.
      The Europeanisation of French aid through the prism of regime complexity.
      [Video].
      
      Cardiff:
      Cardiff University School of Modern Languages. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2014.
      Europeanisation through the prism of regime complexity.
      [Video].
      
      Cardiff:
      Cardiff University School of Modern Languages.
      Available at: https://hml.cardiff.ac.uk/Play/5524 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2013.
      UK-European community aid relations over the Lomé years: reciprocal influences or a dialogue de sourds?
       Bossuat, Gerard and Cumming, Gordon, eds.
      
      France, Europe and Development Aid: from the Treaties of Rome to the present day. Histoire économique et financière - XIXe-XXe,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France,
      pp. 61-79. | 
|   | 
| Bossuat, Gerard and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, eds.
      2013.
      France, Europe and development aid: from the Treaties of Rome to the present day.
      
      
      
      
      Histoire économique et financière - XIXe-XXe,
      
      
      Paris:
      Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2013.
      
      Nicolas Sarkozy's Africa policy: Change, continuity or confusion?
      French Politics
      11
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 24-47.
      
      10.1057/fp.2012.24 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2013.
      
      The United Kingdom over the Lomé years: a constructive partner in Europe?
      Revue Francaise de Civilisation Britannique
      18
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 147-165. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2011.
      
      Burying the hatchet? Britain and France in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
      The Journal of Modern African Studies
      49
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 547-573.
      
      10.1017/S0022278X11000474 | 
|  | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 and Chafer, Tony
      2011.
      
      From rivalry to partnership? Critical reflections on Anglo-French cooperation in Africa.
      Review of International Studies
      37
      
        (5)
      
      , pp. 2439-2463.
      
      10.1017/S0260210511000027 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2011.
      The UK and France in the DRC: making their own peace.
       Cumming, Gordon and Chafer, Tony, eds.
      
      From Rivalry to Partnership? New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Ashgate,
      pp. 139-158. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2011.
      
      Good intentions are not enough: French NGO efforts at democracy building in Cameroon.
      Development in Practice
      21
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 218-231.
      
      10.1080/09614524.2011.543275 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, Chafer, Tony and Callan, Theresa
      2011.
      Conclusion: From rivalry to partnership?
       Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David, eds.
      
      From Rivalry to Partnership: New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa,
       
      
      
      
       
      Farnham: 
      Ashgate,
      pp. 207-216. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2011.
      Britain and France in Africa since Saint Malo: towards an uneasy partnership?
       Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David, eds.
      
      From Rivalry to Partnership: New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa,
       
      
      
      
       
      Farnham: 
      Ashgate,
      pp. 55-72. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2011.
      Introduction.
       Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David, eds.
      
      From Rivalry to Partnership: New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa,
       
      
      
      
       
      Farnham: 
      Ashgate,
      pp. 3-12. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908, eds.
      2011.
      From rivalry to partnership: New approaches to the challenges of Africa.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Farnham:
      Ashgate. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2010.
      
      La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique: Des capacités sous-utilisées.
      Presented at: La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique : Des capacités sous-utilisées,
      Paris, France,
      3 November 2010.
      Published in: Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 eds. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2010.
      
      La coopération franco-britannique en Afrique: une façon de renforcer ou de contourner l'UE?
      Presented at: La coopération franco-britannique en Afrique: une façon de renforcer ou de contourner l'UE?,
      Brussels, Belgium,
      26 November 2010.
      Published in: Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908 eds. | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2010.
      
      Cinquante ans de politique africaine de la France: Un point de vue britannique.
      Afrique Contemporaine
      235
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 53-62.
      
      10.3917/afco.235.0053 | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2010.
      
      Beyond Fashoda: Anglo-French security cooperation in Africa since Saint-Malo.
      International Affairs
      86
      
        (5)
      
      , pp. 1129-1147.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00932.x | 
|   | 
| Chafer, Tony and Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2010.
      
      La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique: Des capacités sous-utilisées.
      Afrique Contemporaine
      236
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 130-132.
      
      10.3917/afco.236.0130 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2009.
      
      French NGOs and the state: Paving the way for a new partnership?
      French Politics
      7
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 145-166.
      
      10.1057/fp.2009.11 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2008.
      
      French NGOs in the Global Era: Professionalization 'Without Borders'?
      VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
      19
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 372-394.
      
      10.1007/s11266-008-9069-5 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      
      
      2008.
      French NGOs in the global era: a distinctive role in international development.
      
      
      
      
      French Politics, Society and Culture,
      
      
      Basingstoke:
      Palgrave Macmillan. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2007.
      
      Promoting Democracy in Cameroon: A Revolutionary French Approach?
      International Journal of Francophone Studies
      10
      
        (1-2)
      
      , pp. 105-119.
      
      10.1386/ijfs.10.1and2.105_1 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2006.
      Exporting the republican model? A critique of France's historic mission in Africa.
       Cole, Alistair and Raymond, Gino, eds.
      
      Redefining the French Republic,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Manchester University Press,
      pp. 156-174. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2005.
      
      Transposing the 'Republican' Model? A Critical Appraisal of France's Historic Mission in Africa.
      Journal of Contemporary African Studies
      23
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 233-252.
      
      10.1080/02589000500175984 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2005.
      From realpolitik to the third way: British African policy in the new world order.
       Engel, Ulf and Olsen, Gorm, eds.
      
      Africa And The North: Between Globalization And Marginalization,
       
      New International Relations,
      
      
       
      
      Routledge,
      pp. 55-73. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2005.
      
      French NGOs in the global era: Getting better at doing good.
      Modern and Contemporary France
      13
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 99-102.
      
      10.1080/0963948052000341259 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2004.
      
      UK African Policy in the Post Cold War Era: From Realpolitik to Moralpolitik?
      Journal of Comparative and Commonwealth Politics
      42
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 106-128.
      
      10.1080/14662040408565570 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2003.
      The Brazzaville conference of 1944: the dream of a greater French Republic.
       Gorrara, Claire and Langford, Rachael, eds.
      
      France Since the Revolution: Textes and Contexts,
       
      
      
      
       
      London: 
      Edward Arnold,
      pp. 94-107. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2003.
      
      Commonwealth and Francophone summits: Towards a new sense of purpose?
      Journal of Contemporary European Studies
      11
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 201-213.
      
      10.1080/1460846032000164627 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      
      
      2001.
      Aid to Africa: French and British policies from the cold war to the new millennium.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Aldershot:
      Ashgate. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      2000.
      
      Modernisation without "banalisation": Towards a new era in French African aid relations?
      Modern and Contemporary France
      8
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 359-370.
      
      10.1080/09639480050057365 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      1996.
      French aid to Africa: a changing agenda?
       Chafer, Tony and Jenkins, Brian, eds.
      
      France: From the Cold War to the New World Order,
       
      
      
      
       
      Basingstoke: 
      Macmillan Press,
      pp. 126-136. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      1996.
      
      Rethinking French development assistance to Africa.
      Modern and Contemporary France
      4
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 503-506.
      
      10.1080/09639489608456339 | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      1995.
      
      French development assistance to Africa: towards a new agenda?
      African Affairs
      94
      
      , pp. 383-398. | 
|   | 
| Cumming, Gordon D  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-8908
      1995.
      
      Political review of the year (September 1993‐August 1994). From Blair House to the Elysée Palace.
      Modern and Contemporary France
      3
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 184-187.
      
      10.1080/09639489508456235 | 
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