Main Areas of Research:

National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation, with particular reference to Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Cyprus; Political Violence/Terrorism; ethnicity, religion and political radicalisation in the UK and Europe.

 

Courses Taught:

• Nations, States and Nationalism Year 2
• Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict Year 3
• Democracy in Plural Societies (Convenor of ) MA/MRes Global and Comparative Politics

 

Major Publications:

Book Chapters

British-Irish Relations and Northern Ireland : From Violent Politics to Conflict Regulation Dublin and Portland OR : Irish Academic Press, 2007

'The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): Majoritarianism, Self-Determination and Military-to-Political Transitions in Sri Lanka' in M. Heiburg, B. O'Leary and J. Tirman (eds) Terror, Insurgency and States, Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007.

Self Determination and Conflict Regulation in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Beyond, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 2003.

Journal articles

‘Radical Atmosphere: Explaining Jihadist Radicalization in the UK ', PS: Political Science and Politics XLI, no. 1 (Jan.) 2008 pp. 37-42.

‘Exchange theory and conflict regulation: Cyprus through the British-Irish (Northern Irish) Prism’, Hellenic Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 2003 pp. 137-72.

(with Jonathan Githens-Mazer) 'Status and Statehood: Exchange theory and British-Irish Relations, 1921-41' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics vol. 40, no. 2 July 2002: 120-45.

'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part II: Playing for a Draw 1985-1998'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 6, no. 3, Sept.. 2000.

'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part I: tracing the status of contesting sovereigns, 1968-1974'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 5, no. 4, Nov. 1999.

co-author with Helen Margetts, Patrick Dunleavy and Stuart Weir Making Votes Count: How Britain would have voted under alternative electoral systems, Joseph Rowntree and Democratic Audit, 1997.

'Violence in Northern Ireland 1969 to 1994: Sectarian or Ethno-National?' in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, no.4 1995:740-72.