Etain Tannam
Assistant Professor
International Peace Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr Etain Tannam received her BA in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, her MA in West European Politics from University of Essex and her PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author of International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: a comparison of the European Union and United Nations (Basingstoke, Palgrave) and Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland (Basingstoke, Palgrave) and has published various book chapters and international journal articles (see below). Her research interests are in the areas of international organizations and conflict resolution, United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) politics, Northern Ireland and British-Irish relations, Cypriot and Greek-Turkish relations. Her previous employment includes posts in the Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin.
Research Interest
United Nations, European Union, International Relations theory, Northern Ireland/British-Irish relationship.
Publications
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Tannam E. (2011) Explaining British-Irish Cooperation: a rational institutionalist approach, Review of International Studies, (3), 2011, pp. 1191 - 1214.
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Tannam E. (2012) Understanding and Explaining International Intervention: the state of the art, Ethnopolitics, 11, (4), pp. 341-353.
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Tannam, E. (2012) The European Union and Conflict Resolution: Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Bilateral Cooperation, Government and Opposition, 47, (1), 2012, pp. 47 - 71.
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Tannam E. (2013) The Divided Irish, in, editor(s) Mabry T., McGarry J., Moore, M., and O’Leary B., Europe’s Divided Nations, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Tannam, E. (2013) The Response of the EU to the International Court of Justices (ICJ) Judgement on Kosovo, Europe-Asia Studies, 15, (5), 2013, p946 - 965.
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Tannam, E. (2014) International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: A Comparison of the European Union and the United Nations, Basingstoke, Palgrave.
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Tannam E. 2016, ‘Cyprus and the Annan Plan Negotiations: an organizational model’ Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 26, December
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Tannam E. 2018 (forthcoming), ‘The Good Friday Agreement and Political Cooperation’, in Irish Political Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2018.
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Tannam E. 2019 (forthcoming), British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
