Dr Etain Tannam
Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator in International Peace Studies
Dr Etain Tannam was a welcome addition to the ISE in 2008, as Assistant Professor in International Peace Studies. She 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, funded by the British Council/Foreign and Commonwealth Office scholarship scheme.
Since her arrival at ISE, she has instigated a highly successful field trip to the UN Geneva for MPhil students, secured a book contract International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: a comparison of the European Union and United Nations (Palgrave, 2012) and published various book chapters and international journal articles. She also gave interviews to various international newspapers about the Irish Lisbon referenda and was invited by the Council of Europe to participate in their seminar series to foster Greek-Cypriot-Turkish Cypiot cooperation. 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. She is currently conducting field trips to the UN New York, and the EU, funded by Trinity College Dublin’s start-up fund.. Her most recent publications include ‘Conceptualising British-Irish Relations: a rational institutionalist approach’, Review of International Studies, 2010; ‘The Divided Irish’, in Mawbry T., O’Leary B., and McGarry J., ed., 2010, Divided Nations and European Integration, Philadelphia, UPenn Press; and ‘Northern Ireland and the EU’ in McCall C., and Wilsin T., eds., 2010, Ireland and Europe: Europeanisation and Hibernicisation, Amsterdam, Rodopi. She is also author of Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 1999).
Her previous employment includes posts in the Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, where she continues to teach international relations, and the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin.
Areas of expertise
EU Politics, Integration Theory/IR Theory, EU and conflict management, Northern Ireland/Anglo-Irish Politics, United Nations
Modules taught
Education
Ph.D. Government, London School of Economics and Political Science
MA West European Politics, University of Essex
BA Hons, Trinity College Dublin
Contact details
Email: tanname@tcd.ie
Direct Tel:
General Tel: +353 (0) 1 260 1144, ext.
Fax: +353 (0) 1 260 1158
Select publications
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2010 lsquo;Northern Ireland and the EU’, in McCall C., and Wilson T. (eds.), Ireland and Europe: Europeanisation and Hibernicisation, Leiden.
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2011 (forthcoming) ‘The EU and Northern Ireland’, in McGarry J. and O’Leary B. (eds.) Europe’s Divided Nations, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
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2011 ‘Explaining Bilateral Cooperation: the EU, the British-Irish and Greek-Turkish relationships’, Government and Opposition forthcoming
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2011 ‘Conceptualising the British-Irish Relationship: an application of rational insittutionalism’, Review of International Studies, forthcoming, first view on-line, August 2010