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Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle (2016)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2016). Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle. Capital and Class, 40(3), 560-562. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816676940b

Within the last year or so, a number of books have been published that critically examine how strategies of security have become attached to environmental problems. Robert Marzec’s (2015) contribution, for instance, draws together the history of the... Read More about Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle.

Security spheres: a phenomenology of maritime spatial practices (2015)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2015). Security spheres: a phenomenology of maritime spatial practices. Security Dialogue, 46(6), 568-584. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010615598049

This article explores maritime protection zones (MPZ), which are being created in the territorial waters of a number of European states. Through the work of Gaston Bachelard and Peter Sloterdijk, the article analyses maritime zonation as a paradigmat... Read More about Security spheres: a phenomenology of maritime spatial practices.

Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power (2012)
Journal Article
RYAN, B. J. (2013). Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power. Review of International Studies, 39(2), 435-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210512000137

This paper introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The paper tracks the... Read More about Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power.

The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro (2009)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2009). The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro. Security Dialogue, 40(3), 311-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010609336195

This article forms a critique of security sector reforms implemented in Albania and Montenegro between 2000 and 2007 by and on behalf of the European Union. It argues that within these reforms it is possible to discern a tension between a more holist... Read More about The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro.

Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals (2008)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2008). Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals. Irish Political Studies, 23(3), 341-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907180802246677

The present article analyses the role of the District Policing Partnership Boards conceptualized by the Patten Report as a pivotal aspect of policing reform in Northern Ireland. It argues that, as originally envisaged, these Boards possessed a partic... Read More about Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals.

The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland (2008)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2008). The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland. Capital and Class, 32(2), 83-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680809500104

This article examines proposals for the reform of the relationship between internal security and state-society relations in Northern Ireland and finds a divergence from the usual liberal package of police reforms. These proposals embraced the politic... Read More about The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland.

Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police (2007)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2007). Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police. International Peacekeeping, 14(2), 282-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310601151055

Based on research undertaken in southern Serbia following the introduction of multi-ethnic policing units, this article examines the pluralist intentions behind attempts to democratize security through community-oriented policing (COP). It details th... Read More about Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police.

What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia (2007)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. (2007). What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia. Policing and Society, 17(1), 1 -20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460601124106

Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Miloševic's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in... Read More about What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia.