Richard Maher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Maher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Maher |
| SIGNATURE | MAHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3391-7224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Domestic Violence, Disability, and Post Separation Child Contact
Purpose Little is known in research terms about post separation child contact for children with disabilities. In particular, there is a lack of understanding about contact in the aftermath of domestic violence and abuse. Method This critical commentary offers an exposition of Gregory et al.’s (2024) contribution to existing knowledge. Within Gregory et al. (2024), qualitative research findings on children with disabilities’ experiences are captur…
Through a Critical Realist Lens
This paper applies a critical realist philosophical position to collect and analyse data from 34 children and young people with disabilities about the child protection and welfare issues associated with internet use. This study utilised a blend of methods for data collection and a defined data analysis frame which is presented in this paper. This data analysis frame offers learning about how qualitative findings can be applied to critical realism…
PRO-FIT-Care study
Introduction Moderate-to-high physical activity participation is associated with a reduced risk of infertility. Yet, exercise interventions that target cardiorespiratory fitness, independent of weight loss, are lacking in obesity and female fertility research. Purpose The primary objective of the PRO-FIT-CARE (PROmoting FITness for CArdiometabolic & REproductive Health) study was to assess the feasibility of a moderate-to-high-intensity online ex…
Child protection and welfare risks and opportunities related to disability and internet use
US economic statecraft and great power competition
This article develops a conceptual framework for explaining variation in the United States’ economic statecraft in the Cold War and the present day, focusing on how US officials perceived the type of geoeconomic capability that its rivals possessed and the type of national security challenge that they posed. This framework specifies four ideal-type strategies on the part of the United States: economic containment, national economic competition, t…
The covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program
This paper examines the covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and the implications it holds for both the theory and the practice of counterproliferation. The paper evaluates the degree to which covert action succeeded in producing meaningful delays and disruptions to Iran’s nuclear progress, in enhancing U.S. diplomatic leverage, and in helping to compel Iranian leaders to accept limits and restrictions on their country’s nuclear activit…
The populist challenge to European defense
This article assesses the consequences and implications of the rise of European populist parties for European defense cooperation. Focusing on six of the most prominent populist parties in Europe today, we examine their positions along three important defense-related issues: recommended national force posture; integrated military forces; and main national security threats. To determine their position on these three issues, we examine every party …
International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration
What are the prospects and likely future direction of European integration? Will it be marked by resilience and perhaps even deepening integration among European Union (EU) member states, or will it encounter further instability that could lead to fragmentation and disintegration? The answers to these questions are currently unknown but are important not just for the citizens and countries of the EU but for world politics more broadly. Scholars a…
Political decay or renewal in the European Union
Mai’a K. Davis Cross, The Politics of Crisis in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Sergio Fabbrini, Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres
Bipolarity and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
First published: 19 September 2018
Europe in an age of transition
In June 2016, the European Union released an updated global security strategy, outlining some of the main threats and challenges it currently faces. While the document notes that “global power shifts and power diffusion” characterize world politics today, it devotes little attention to how these developments are likely to affect Europe’s ability to advance its aims and agenda around the world. This article takes up this question, reviewing how gl…
The Rise of China and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance
Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three
This article examines the impact and significance of the Crimea-Ukraine-Russia and the eurozone crises on relations among and between the EU’s three biggest member states - Britain, France and Germany - as well as their individual influence and roles within the EU. The Ukraine and eurozone crises have revealed and intensified three longer-term developments in contemporary European politics: Germany's rise as the EU's most powerful member state an…
The elusive EU-China strategic partnership
In 2003 the European Union announced that it had launched a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ with China. This policy was intended to elevate EU-China relations beyond prosaic trade and investment issues to address some of the world's most pressing political and security challenges. Anything approaching a comprehensive strategic partnership over the past decade linking the EU and China has failed to materialize, however. This article clarifie…
Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration
In "Europe's Troubles," Sebastian Rosato argues that the high water mark of European integration has passed and that the fate of the European Union (EU) is increasingly uncertain. The European project, he claims, had a geostrategic imperative during the Cold War: unable to match Soviet power individually, the small and medium powers of Western Europe sought to balance the Soviet Union through economic integration. The Soviet collapse and the end …
International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security Policy
The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in the domains of traditional “high politics” has consolidated bit by bit since the mid-1990s, under the auspices of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and a pan-European security and defense policy (ESDP). Accordingly, Euro…
The Paradox of American Unipolarity
The populist challenge to European defense
This article assesses the consequences and implications of the rise of European populist parties for European defense cooperation. Focusing on six of the most prominent populist parties in Europe today, we examine their positions along three important defense-related issues: recommended national force posture; integrated military forces; and main national security threats. To determine their position on these three issues, we examine every party …
Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three
This article examines the impact and significance of the Crimea-Ukraine-Russia and the eurozone crises on relations among and between the EU’s three biggest member states - Britain, France and Germany - as well as their individual influence and roles within the EU. The Ukraine and eurozone crises have revealed and intensified three longer-term developments in contemporary European politics: Germany's rise as the EU's most powerful member state an…
International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security Policy
The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in the domains of traditional “high politics” has consolidated bit by bit since the mid-1990s, under the auspices of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and a pan-European security and defense policy (ESDP). Accordingly, Euro…
Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration
In "Europe's Troubles," Sebastian Rosato argues that the high water mark of European integration has passed and that the fate of the European Union (EU) is increasingly uncertain. The European project, he claims, had a geostrategic imperative during the Cold War: unable to match Soviet power individually, the small and medium powers of Western Europe sought to balance the Soviet Union through economic integration. The Soviet collapse and the end …
International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration
What are the prospects and likely future direction of European integration? Will it be marked by resilience and perhaps even deepening integration among European Union (EU) member states, or will it encounter further instability that could lead to fragmentation and disintegration? The answers to these questions are currently unknown but are important not just for the citizens and countries of the EU but for world politics more broadly. Scholars a…
The elusive EU-China strategic partnership
In 2003 the European Union announced that it had launched a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ with China. This policy was intended to elevate EU-China relations beyond prosaic trade and investment issues to address some of the world's most pressing political and security challenges. Anything approaching a comprehensive strategic partnership over the past decade linking the EU and China has failed to materialize, however. This article clarifie…
The Rise of China and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance
The Paradox of American Unipolarity
Child protection and welfare risks and opportunities related to disability and internet use
The covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program
This paper examines the covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and the implications it holds for both the theory and the practice of counterproliferation. The paper evaluates the degree to which covert action succeeded in producing meaningful delays and disruptions to Iran’s nuclear progress, in enhancing U.S. diplomatic leverage, and in helping to compel Iranian leaders to accept limits and restrictions on their country’s nuclear activit…
Political decay or renewal in the European Union
Mai’a K. Davis Cross, The Politics of Crisis in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Sergio Fabbrini, Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres
Bipolarity and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
First published: 19 September 2018
Europe in an age of transition
In June 2016, the European Union released an updated global security strategy, outlining some of the main threats and challenges it currently faces. While the document notes that “global power shifts and power diffusion” characterize world politics today, it devotes little attention to how these developments are likely to affect Europe’s ability to advance its aims and agenda around the world. This article takes up this question, reviewing how gl…
The Paradox of American Unipolarity
International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security Policy
The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in the domains of traditional “high politics” has consolidated bit by bit since the mid-1990s, under the auspices of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and a pan-European security and defense policy (ESDP). Accordingly, Euro…
Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration
In "Europe's Troubles," Sebastian Rosato argues that the high water mark of European integration has passed and that the fate of the European Union (EU) is increasingly uncertain. The European project, he claims, had a geostrategic imperative during the Cold War: unable to match Soviet power individually, the small and medium powers of Western Europe sought to balance the Soviet Union through economic integration. The Soviet collapse and the end …
The Rise of China and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance
Europe’s crises and the EU’s ‘big three
This article examines the impact and significance of the Crimea-Ukraine-Russia and the eurozone crises on relations among and between the EU’s three biggest member states - Britain, France and Germany - as well as their individual influence and roles within the EU. The Ukraine and eurozone crises have revealed and intensified three longer-term developments in contemporary European politics: Germany's rise as the EU's most powerful member state an…
The elusive EU-China strategic partnership
In 2003 the European Union announced that it had launched a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ with China. This policy was intended to elevate EU-China relations beyond prosaic trade and investment issues to address some of the world's most pressing political and security challenges. Anything approaching a comprehensive strategic partnership over the past decade linking the EU and China has failed to materialize, however. This article clarifie…
Europe in an age of transition
In June 2016, the European Union released an updated global security strategy, outlining some of the main threats and challenges it currently faces. While the document notes that “global power shifts and power diffusion” characterize world politics today, it devotes little attention to how these developments are likely to affect Europe’s ability to advance its aims and agenda around the world. This article takes up this question, reviewing how gl…
Bipolarity and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
First published: 19 September 2018
International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration
What are the prospects and likely future direction of European integration? Will it be marked by resilience and perhaps even deepening integration among European Union (EU) member states, or will it encounter further instability that could lead to fragmentation and disintegration? The answers to these questions are currently unknown but are important not just for the citizens and countries of the EU but for world politics more broadly. Scholars a…
Political decay or renewal in the European Union
Mai’a K. Davis Cross, The Politics of Crisis in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Sergio Fabbrini, Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres
The covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program
This paper examines the covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and the implications it holds for both the theory and the practice of counterproliferation. The paper evaluates the degree to which covert action succeeded in producing meaningful delays and disruptions to Iran’s nuclear progress, in enhancing U.S. diplomatic leverage, and in helping to compel Iranian leaders to accept limits and restrictions on their country’s nuclear activit…
The populist challenge to European defense
This article assesses the consequences and implications of the rise of European populist parties for European defense cooperation. Focusing on six of the most prominent populist parties in Europe today, we examine their positions along three important defense-related issues: recommended national force posture; integrated military forces; and main national security threats. To determine their position on these three issues, we examine every party …
US economic statecraft and great power competition
This article develops a conceptual framework for explaining variation in the United States’ economic statecraft in the Cold War and the present day, focusing on how US officials perceived the type of geoeconomic capability that its rivals possessed and the type of national security challenge that they posed. This framework specifies four ideal-type strategies on the part of the United States: economic containment, national economic competition, t…
Child protection and welfare risks and opportunities related to disability and internet use
PRO-FIT-Care study
Introduction Moderate-to-high physical activity participation is associated with a reduced risk of infertility. Yet, exercise interventions that target cardiorespiratory fitness, independent of weight loss, are lacking in obesity and female fertility research. Purpose The primary objective of the PRO-FIT-CARE (PROmoting FITness for CArdiometabolic & REproductive Health) study was to assess the feasibility of a moderate-to-high-intensity online ex…
Domestic Violence, Disability, and Post Separation Child Contact
Purpose Little is known in research terms about post separation child contact for children with disabilities. In particular, there is a lack of understanding about contact in the aftermath of domestic violence and abuse. Method This critical commentary offers an exposition of Gregory et al.’s (2024) contribution to existing knowledge. Within Gregory et al. (2024), qualitative research findings on children with disabilities’ experiences are captur…
Through a Critical Realist Lens
This paper applies a critical realist philosophical position to collect and analyse data from 34 children and young people with disabilities about the child protection and welfare issues associated with internet use. This study utilised a blend of methods for data collection and a defined data analysis frame which is presented in this paper. This data analysis frame offers learning about how qualitative findings can be applied to critical realism…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (9 works) · International trade (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Law (8 works)