Dr Barry Ryan

Title: Lecturer in International Relations
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Since completing my PhD at the University of Limerick in 2005, I have been researching the nature of security provision in transitional and post-conflict situations. In particular I am interested in the usage of police power in the transmission of liberal political economy. I have worked with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations Development Programme and with Irish Aid on security reforms in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Caucus region. I am a member of the editorial boards of Capital and Class and the University of Belgrade’s journal The Western Balkans Security Observer. Prior to joining SPIRE in September 2009, I have lectured at the University of Limerick, Dublin City University and at Lancaster University. I am a member of the Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice. My monograph, entitled Police Reform and Statebuilding: The Freedom of Security, will be published by Routledge in 2011.

  • The Balkans
  • Police Power and IR
  • Security/Development nexus
  • Statebuilding and Liberal Peace
  • Critical security studies

Research Monograph

  • (2011 forthcoming) Police Reform and Statebuilding: The Freedom of Security. London: Routledge.

Policy Reports:

  • (2008); A Review of Irish Aid's Partnership Programme for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Irish Aid. Department of Foreign Affairs. Dublin
  • (2006); An Evaluation of the UNDP’s Support to Security Sector Reform in the Republic of Albania, UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery – Justice and Security Sector Reform: Publication IV. http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/jssr/ssr/UNDP_Support_Albania.pdf

 Consultancy Reports:

  • (2010); Police Perception and Police Reform in Montenegro. Podgorica: OSCE Mission to Montenegro. 
  • (2002); Police Perceptions of Community Policing in Serbia. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Mission to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Belgrade.
  • (2004); Police Perceptions of Community Policing in the Republic of Montenegro. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Mission to Serbia and Montenegro. Podgorica.

Selected Publications

  • Ryan BJ. 2013. Reasonable Force: The Emergence of Global Policing Power. Review of International Studies, vol. 39(2), 435-457. doi>
  • Ryan BJ. 2011. Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security. Oxford: Routledge. link>
  • RYAN B. 2009. The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro. Security Dialogue, vol. 40(3), 311-332. doi> full text>
  • RYAN B. 2010. Policing the State of Exception in Kosovo. In Kosovo, intervention and statebuilding. Hehir A (Ed.). Taylor & Francis.
  • RYAN B. 2008. Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideal. Irish Political Studies, vol. 23(3), 341-362. doi> full text>

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Books

  • Ryan BJ. 2011. Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security. Oxford: Routledge. link>

Journal Articles

  • Ryan BJ. 2013. Reasonable Force: The Emergence of Global Policing Power. Review of International Studies, vol. 39(2), 435-457. doi>
  • RYAN B. 2009. The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro. Security Dialogue, vol. 40(3), 311-332. doi> full text>
  • RYAN B. 2008. Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideal. Irish Political Studies, vol. 23(3), 341-362. doi> full text>
  • RYAN B. 2007. Quasi-Pluralism in a Quasi-Peace: South Serbia’s Multi-Ethnic Police. International Peacekeeping, vol. 14(2), 282-297. doi> full text>
  • RYAN B. 2007. What the Police is Supposed to Do: Contrasting Expectations of Community Policing in Serbia. Policing and Society, vol. 17(1), 1-20. doi> full text>
  • RYAN B. All That’s Constant is Change: A Brief Political History of Police Reforms in Serbia. Western Balkans Security Observer, vol. 11, 11-19.
  • RYAN B and Worth O. On the Contemporary Relevance of ‘Left Nationalism’. Capital and Class, vol. 34(1), 54-60. full text>
  • RYAN B. The Logic of a Justified Hope: The Dialectic of Police Reform in Northern Ireland. Capital and Class, 83-108.

Chapters

  • RYAN B. 2010. Policing the State of Exception in Kosovo. In Kosovo, intervention and statebuilding. Hehir A (Ed.). Taylor & Francis.

AY 2010/2011

  • Contemporary International Relations Theory
  • Policing International Order
  • Introduction to Global Politics
  • Perspectives in International Relations
  • The Theory of Global Security

I am interested in supervising doctoral dissertations that explore themes in global security and critical theory.