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A marvelous sentiment
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 16 September 2008
Adam Curtis, the BBC documentary maker with a keen eye for archival footage and historical trends said this, during an interview with the Register:
“We should be saying to people ‘I’m going to take you out of yourself and show you something you haven’t thought of, which is either awesome, or incredible, or will inspire you’”.
This [...]
The Lisbon Treaty & the Irish Voter: Democratic Deficits and the Three Painful Steps
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 13 June 2008
Article I co-wrote with Joe Curtin, a colleague at the IIEA, in openDemocracy
Making better presentations
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 19 May 2008
In 2003, I delivered my worst presentation ever at the podium of the Royal Irish Academy. I stood and read an irrelevant academic paper, to a disinterested audience, and had planned my delivery so poorly that it was necessary to skip paragraphs at random to keep within time. Since then I’ve looked at how Hardt, [...]
The Talk of The Year
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 May 2008
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html
Interview with head of Frontex
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 3 April 2008
I interviewed Ilkka Laitinen, Director of Frontex, the EU border security agency, for the European Biometrics Forum yesterday.
Short interview on the future of Biometrics
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 29 March 2008
I interviewed Frank Paul, Head of Large-Scale Information Systems, at the European Commission DG FSJ, about the future of biometrics in the European Union…
Irish Independent – coverage of O’Reilly Foundation Scholarship
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 25 January 2008
I was profiled in the Irish Independent in an article about the O’Reilly Scholarship:
“…his first book, ‘Countering Militant Islamist Radicalisation on the Internet’, which was launched last year by the former chair of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones. The book argued against the European Commission’s suggestion of using internet censorship to combat [...]
My review of Paul Rogers’ Towards sustainable security
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 5 December 2007
My review of Rogers’ Towards sustainable security is online on Nthposition. [link]
Radicalisation & recruitment on the internet: Policy responses & implications.
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 19 October 2006
UPDATED THIS PROJECT HAS CONCLUDED. Most of the resulting materials have been made openly available. See My 2007 book [buy it on Amazon] or [read it free at Google Books] and my related articles which are more up to date. Also, I have now initiated a new phase in this research, finally returning to Cambridge [...]
Integration of immigrants and US fears of militant Islamism in the EU
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 1 April 2006
Published as Institute of European Affairs Justice & Home Affairs Update, April 2006 [To see the original JHA UPDATE for April 2006, browse to http://www.iiea.com/newsletter/april2006/jhaapril06full.html]
Welcome to the first JHA update of 2006. This service from the Institute of European Affairs will regularly update you about developments in Justice & Home Affairs (JHA). JHA is the [...]
Complexity in the war on terror
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 20 March 2005
Published in Magill, March 2005. Note: This article was a rebuttal of Dr Millar’s piece, ‘No surrender to holy terrorists’, which appeared in the same pages.
In the previous article, Rory Miller of King’s College London writes that we in the West must not compromise with what he calls ‘Holy Terror’. He suggests that all Islamic [...]
Assessing the recommendations of the coalition for a realistic foreign policy in their January 2005 statement in the Economist.
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 15 February 2005
“Americans should be deeply concerned that we are so unpopular in the region inasmuch as it makes it harder, rather than easier, for us to achieve our major national security objectives in the Middle East”.[1]
In The Economist’s first edition of 2005, the coalition for a realistic foreign policy (‘the coalition’ hereafter) published a statement criticizing [...]
Unipolar moment or unipolar era?
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 5 February 2005
UNIPOLAR MOMENT OR UNIPOLAR ERA: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S ASSERTIVE GRAND STRATEGY
February 2005.
In the run up to the 2000 election, Condoleezza Rice laid out the central tenet of candidate Bush’s foreign policy manifesto: ‘Foreign policy [...]
Principled failure: British policy toward Rhodesia, 1971-72
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 20 February 2004
The History Review 2004. Copyright Johnny Ryan 2004.
INTRODUCTION
The choice lies starkly between a compromise settlement, which by definition will not satisfy anyone but which will gain for [...]
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