The EU, Irish Defence Forces, and Contemporary Security.

“The EU, Irish Defence Forces, and Contemporary Security”, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
Jonathan Carroll, Mark Williams & Matthew O’Neill. (Editors)

Jonathan Carroll, Mark Williams, and Matthew O’Neill are co-editors of this new edited volume on the Irish Defence Forces entitled “The EU, Irish Defence Forces, and Contemporary Security.” It shall be published by Palgrave Macmillan in early 2023, and is now available online via the links below.

Mark Williams, and Matthew O’Neill are Research Fellow for The Azure Forum for Contemporary Security Strategy, and Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Military History with the Department of History at Texas A&M University.

I am very pleased to have contributed a chapter where I shall explore Irish civil-military industrial relations, and wider European Union military trade unionism.

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 the volume 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.

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.

Submissions were invited 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.

Link: The EU, Irish Defence Forces, and Contemporary Security.