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The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Carroll

    1. Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  2. Matthew G. O'Neill

    1. The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

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  3. Mark Williams

    1. The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

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  • Contributes to social scientific understanding of Irish Defence Forces and Irish National Security Policy
  • Captures the arguments and viewpoints of the key academic and military stakeholders involved in Irish defence
  • Explores the related issue of the defence challenges facing small and medium nations

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  5. Cyber Security in the Digital Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. The Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping and the Role of the Irish Defence Forces

      • Mark Williams, Matthew G. O’Neill
      Pages 253-271

    3. Cyber Resilience for Europe’s Armed Forces in the Twenty-First Century: A German Perspective

      • Michael Vetter
      Pages 273-294

    4. The Irish Defence Forces in the Drone Age

      • Andy Scollick
      Pages 295-314
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About this book

This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators on Irish defence policy, military leaders from across the service components of the Irish Defence Forces and European defence experts to contribute to the first in-depth conversation and analysis on modern Irish defence and its application within the European Union. The aim of this edited book is to ascertain what capabilities are robust, which are lacking, what future threats need to be catered for, and what action is needed to ensure those threats will be addressed going forward. This book will explore emerging issues and applications of modern and contemporary threats within the context of Ireland, Europe and Western institutions. We have invited submissions from scholars, commentators, policymakers and military practitioners to evaluate the Irish Defence Forces and to illustrate the complexities facing small nations in formulating and resourcing defence and national security policy.

Reviews

“This book is a critical and insightful contribution to the debate on Irish defence and the role of the Defence Forces. Uniquely, it brings together the voices of both scholars and practitioners to assess where Ireland stands in the face of contemporary threats but also its potential across multiple defence domains. Irish defence policy is in urgent need of serious and sustained attention. The authors of this important text fulfil that mission perfectly.” (—Ben Tonra, Professor, MRIA, The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin, Ireland)“By mainly examining Ireland’s defence policy and the Irish Armed Forces, this edited volume provides valuable knowledge to both practitioners and scholars. The book is structured around five highly relevant themes, each contributing to the debate on the contemporary challenges of security policy and military transformation. Undoubtedly, any reader interested in international relationsand/or security studies, and especially those focusing on small states studies and/or comparative strategy, will gain new insights by exploring this book.” (—Håkan Edström, Associate Professor in Political Science, Swedish Defence University, Sweden)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Jonathan Carroll

  • The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

    Matthew G. O'Neill, Mark Williams

About the editors

Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University, USA.

Matthew G. O’Neill is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher in Political Science at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Mark Williams is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.


 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security

  • Editors: Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O'Neill, Mark Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07812-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07811-8Published: 24 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07814-9Published: 24 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07812-5Published: 23 January 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 443

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Military and Defence Studies, International Security Studies

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