• The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland 

  Omarsdottir, Silja Bara (University College Cork, 2018)

  This dissertation analyzes public and elite security discourses in Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity ...
• Empowering citizens in the development of smart cities: the Cork case 

  Pham, Long T. (University College Cork, 2017)

  Cities around the world are piloting combinations of technologies to develop smart cities. As an urban management and governance trend, the smart city idea has moved from concept to mainstream within the past decade. As ...
• Critical turns in critical theory: new directions in social and political thought 

  Ó Tuama, Séamus (Taurus Academic Studies, 2009)

  The contemporary world is one of contingency and risk. We face a range of social and political problems barely imaginable to previous generations. Here the technique of critical social theory is applied to some of the most ...
• 'The elephant in the room' no more: Europe as a structuring line of political cleavage in the 2017 presidential election 

  Schön-Quinlivan, Emmanuelle (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017-08-01)

  It is traditionally argued that the topic of European integration is rather absent or under-discussed in French political debate. In this context, it came as a surprise that the 2017 French presidential election turned ...
• Why did occidental modernity fail in the Arab Middle East: the failed modern state? 

  Sardar, Aziz (University College Cork, 2011)

  This thesis asks a straightforward but nevertheless a complex question, that is: Why did modernity fail in the Arab Middle East? The notion of modernity in this thesis signifies the occidental modernity which reached the ...

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