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Dr Cian O'Driscoll

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Lecturer (Politics)
Adviser of Studies (Social Sciences College Academic and Student Administration)

telephone: 0141 330 2002
email: Cian.O'Driscoll@glasgow.ac.uk

Office hours: Thursday 4pm-5pm

Biography

Cian joined the Politics in 2007 as a lecturer in Politics. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Prior to this he studied at the University of Limerick, Dalhousie University, and the University of Oslo. Cian’s first book, The Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition was published in 2008. He has an edited volume (with Anthony F. Lang, Jr., and John Williams), Just War: Authority, Tradition, Practice, forthcoming in Spring 2013 with Georgetown University Press. He has also published a number of articles on the ethics of war, contributing to Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Political Theory, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Relations, the Journal of Military Ethics, the Journal of International Political Theory, and Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Cian was the Snell Exchange Fellow to Balliol College, Oxford for Trinity Term 2010, and was recently appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy. Cian co-convenes the Glasgow Global Security Network, and is currently conducting research on the ancient Greek precursors to the just war tradition.

Research Interests

Ethics of War and Peace
Classical and Contemporary Just War Tradition
English School IR Theory

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Number of items: 16.

2013

O'Driscoll, C. (2013) Divisions within the ranks? The just war tradition and the use and abuse of history. Ethics and International Affairs, 27 (1). pp. 47-65. ISSN 0892-6794 (doi:10.1017/S0892679412000779)

2012

O'Driscoll, C. (2012) A 'fighting chance' or fighting dirty? Irregular warfare, Michael Gross and the Spartans. European Journal of Political Theory, 11 (2). pp. 112-130. ISSN 1471-8851 (doi:10.1177/1474885111425117)

2011

O'Driscoll, C. (2011) Talking about just war: Obama in Oslo, Bush at war. Politics, 31 (2). pp. 82-90. ISSN 0263-3957 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2011.01406.x)

O'Driscoll, C. (2011) Under an empty sky? Bruce Springsteen, just war and the war on terror. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4 (2). pp. 283-291. ISSN 1753-9153 (doi:10.1080/17539153.2011.586209)

2010

Mills, K., and O'Driscoll, Cian (2010) From humanitarian intervention to the responsibility to protect. In: The International Studies Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK, pp. 2532-2552. ISBN 9781405152389

O'Driscoll, Cian (2010) Ethics and War in the Twenty-First Century: International Society at a "Fork in the Road". Intelligence and National Security, 25 (1). pp. 86-97. ISSN 0268-4527

2009

O'Driscoll, Cian (2009) From Versailles to 9/11: Non-State Actors and Just War in the Twentieth Century. In: Heinze, E. and Steele, B. (eds.) Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition. Palgrave-Macmillan, New York. ISBN 978-0-230-61674-5

O'Driscoll, Cian (2009) Hedgehog or Fox? An Essay on James Turner Johnson's View of History. Journal of Military Ethics, 8 (3). pp. 165-178. ISSN 1502-7570 (doi:10.1080/15027570903230182 )

O'Driscoll, Cian (2009) James Turner Johnson and the Recovery of the Just War Tradition: Introduction. Journal of Military Ethics, 8 (3). pp. 163-164. ISSN 1502-7570