Editor

Dr John Doyle, DCU

National Committee for the Study of International Affairs

Dr Mervyn O'Driscoll, University College Cork

Dr William Phelan, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Stephen Ryan, University of Ulster

Mr David Donoghue, Departemnt of Foreign Affairs

Professor Ben Tonra, University College Dublin

Dr Michael Kennedy (Secretary), Executive Editor, DIFP

Dr Emma Riesz, Queen's University Belfast

Dr Owen Worth (Secretary), University of Limerick

Dr John O'Brennan, NUI Maynooth

Dr John Doyle, Editor, ISIA

Dr Ray Murphy, NUI Galway

Dr Maura COnway (Vice-Chair), DCU

Ms Jill Donoghue, The INstitute of International an dEuropean Affairs

Col. Colm Campbell, Defence Forces

Professor Luke Ashworth, University of Limerick

Dr Mark Callanan, Institute of Public Administration

Professor Nicholas Rees, Liverpool Hope University

Mr Noel Dorr, MRIA (Chair), Royal Irish Academy

 

Professor Ben Tonra

Professor Ben Tonra is Jean Monnet Professor of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Associate Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. He is also the Director of the Graduate School of the UCD College of Human Sciences. Ben is a graduate of the University of Limerick (BA and MA) and was awarded his PhD from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. Ben’s research interests and publications are concerned with EU security and defence, Irish foreign policy and International Relations theory. He is the Project Leader of the Irish Institute for International and European Affairs’ policy group on European Security and Defence. He is also a member of the Church of Ireland’s working group on Europe and previously served on the Southern Executive of the Methodist Church in Ireland’s Council for Social Responsibility. His latest book: European Republic to Global Citizen: Irish Foreign Policy in Transition is published by Manchester University Press.

Web Link: http://www.ucd.ie/humansciences/graduate/tonra_biography.htm

 

Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Previously, he lectured in Modern and Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He received a PhD from University College Dublin. Dr Kennedy is the author of Division and Consensus: the politics of cross-border relations in Ireland 1921 – 1969 (Dublin, 2000) and of Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-46 (Dublin, 1996), co author of Ireland and the Council of Europe: From isolation towards integration (with Eunan O’Halpin) (Strasbourg, 2000) and joint editor of Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan (with Till Geiger) (Dublin, 2004) and Irish Foreign Policy 1919 – 1966 from independence to internationalism (Dublin, 2000) (with J.M. Skelly). He is co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 – 1926, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 – 1932 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume IV, 1932 – 1936. He has also published numerous articles on Irish diplomatic and political history (see here for details). Michael Kennedy’s most recent publication is Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations, 1955-2005 (co-edited with Deirdre McMahon) (Dublin, 2005) a collection of essays marking fifty years of Ireland’s membership of the United Nations.

DIFP webpages

 

Dr John O'Brennan

Dr John O'Brennan is Lecturer in European Politics and Society at NUI Maynooth, a former director and founding member of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe (www.widereurope.ie). He has lectured at the University of Limerick and held fellowships at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris and the Varna Economics University, Bulgaria. He is the author of The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (Routledge, 2006); National Parliaments within the European Integration Process: from 'victims' of Integration to Competitive Actors? (Routledge, 2007) and The EU and the Western Balkans: Stabilization and Europeanization through Enlargement? (Routledge, forthcoming 2010). He has published extensively in international refereed journals such as the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, European Political Science, Global Society, the Journal of European Integration, the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Parliamentary Affairs. He is also a regular contributor to the international media including BBC World Service, Open Democracy, Die Welt, El Tiempo, the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the Japan Times.

Web Link: http://sociology.nuim.ie/JohnOBrennan.shtml

Jill Donoghue

Jill Donoghue is Director of Research at the Institute of European Affairs with responsibility for strategic direction for over 20 research groups at the IEA, which cover a wide range of EU policy areas. She is a member of the consultative board of the Institute for international integration studies in Trinity College, is a member of the Communicating Europe executive board which is run by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and represents the IEA at the National Forum on Europe. She has lectured previously at University College Dublin, NUI Maynooth, UL and the Smurfit Business School.

Professor Lucian M. Ashworth

Professor Lucian M. Ashworth is Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick in Ireland. His main area of research interest is the history of International Relations theory, with a particular focus on the inter-war period. His publications on this subject include three books, of which the most recent, International Relations Theory and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making 1918-1945, was published by IB Tauris in 2007. He has also published articles on idealism in inter-war IR (it didn’t exist), the realist-idealist debate (it never happened) and eighteenth century international thought (it didn’t work).

Web Link: http://www.ul.ie/ppa/Politics/Faculty.htm

Dr. Mark Callanan

Dr. Mark Callanan is a lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration, a recognised college of the National University of Ireland providing undergraduate and postgraduate education to public servants in Ireland and abroad. A graduate of UCD, College d’Europe Bruges, and UCC, recent publications include an edited volume on Ireland’s relationship with the European Union – Foundations of an Ever Closer Union: An Irish Perspective on 50 Years Since the Treaty of Rome – which also feature contributions from distinguished scholars, as well as former senior politicians and civil servants. Mark is programme director for the IPA’s Diploma in European Union Studies, and lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes provided by the Institute and different Irish universities. He has run workshops on negotiating in multilateral international fora for public servants in Ireland and in 12 other European countries, and undertaken numerous commissioned research projects for the European Commission and the Irish government.

Web Link: http://www.ipa.ie/?id=68&staffID=16&sc=1

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