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Reference List

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What references have you used for the report?

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Isaac Bennett

PhD Researcher, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Dublin

Isaac Bennett is a second-year PhD Researcher at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations in Dublin. His research focuses on the relationship between advanced military technology and casualty aversion in democratic countries. Prior to this research, Isaac worked as the owner and operator of Bennett Research Services, a political and security affairs consultancy. He was engaged in several projects for lobby groups and individuals, including a large, in-depth analysis of alleged police and judicial corruption in Ireland (2015). Between 2015 and 2017, he worked for the Cork County Council as part of a change management team to improve local government service provision to citizens and to enhance communication links via a new website. Isaac holds a BA in History and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin (2012), and an MA in International Security and Conflict Studies from Dublin City University (2014).

Ben Tonra

Full Professor of International Relations, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Dublin

Ben Tonra is Full Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations in Dublin. There, he teaches, researches and publishes on European foreign, security and defence policy; Irish foreign, security and defence policy; and the theory of international relations. Outside the university, he has served as Chair of the Royal Irish Academy’s Standing Committee on International Affairs and is a Co-leader of a research programme on EU security and defence at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. In Ireland, he has also lectured for and worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Defence, and the Defence Forces. Previously, he was a Lecturer at the Department of International Politics of the University of Wales (Aberystwyth) and a Research Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Ben is a graduate of the University of Limerick (BA and MA) and completed his doctoral studies at the University of Dublin (Trinity College) in 1996.

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Department of Defence (2015). White Paper on Defence. Dublin.

Interviews with sources within the government.

Ireland Report