The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security

The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O’Neill, and Mark Williams (Editors)

Jonathan Carroll, Matthew G. O’Neill, and Mark Williams are co-editors of this edited volume on the Irish Defence Forces, entitled The EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security. It was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2023, and is available via the link below.

Jonathan Carroll is a PhD candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University. Matthew G. O’Neill and Mark Williams are postgraduate researchers with the Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast.

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

This book will aid researchers, policymakers, and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, and contemporary and emerging threats.

This edited collection brings together 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. The book explores 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 (Palgrave Macmillan)