Barry J Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 269168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry J Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7213-3273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supporting female and gender diverse students in undergraduate STEM courses through enhancing self-efficacy
This study explores the relationship between gender and class-specific self-efficacy in undergraduate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses, with a focus on the impact of pedagogical practices. Data from 483 students surveyed during the first weeks of their courses provide insights into how gender interacts with age, race, generational status, and study field to shape students’ perceived confidence in understanding mate…
Routledge Handbook of Maritime Security
Routledge Handbook of Maritime Security
The Impact of Social Inclusion on the Social Development of Students with a General Learning Difficulty in Postprimary Education in Ireland
Over the past decade, there has been a societal push for social inclusion in Ireland for students with special educational needs (SEN). As a result, the number of dedicated special needs schools has dramatically decreased across the country as students with SEN enrol, instead, in mainstream schools. Dedicated SEN schools provided an environment in which students with a general learning difficulty (GLD) could develop at a pace suited to them. Howe…
The disciplined sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation
This article details the evolution of maritime security from the perspective of its impact on the historical architecture of sea space. It argues that, as the fundamental unit of governance, zoning provides keen insight into the mechanics of maritime security. The article observes that Britain's Hovering Acts in the late eighteenth century represent the earliest example of modern zonation at sea and that they exhibit a shift from early modern ter…
Maritime security: The Uncharted Politics of the Global Sea
In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article 'Beyond seablindness: a new agenda for maritime security studies', published in this journal in November 2017. We reiterate our call for more scholarly attention to be paid to the maritime environment in international relations and security studies. We argue that the contemporary maritime security…
Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance
We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it occludes the possibility that there exists political activity that is manifestly defiant. The article takes issue with this tendency and identifies a mode of resistance that is explicitly defiant. In…
Platonic Speleology and Peter Sloterdijk's Theory of Pseudonymous Politics
Becoming Montenegrin: Biopower, police reform and human rights
The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the paper explores the biopolitics of liberalisation. The paper aims to demonstrate norms of internal security liberalisation that operate beyond a legal understanding of state power. It illustrates the op…
Security spheres: A phenomenology of maritime spatial practices
This article explores maritime protection zones (MPZ), which are being created in the territorial waters of a number of European states. Through the work of Gaston Bachelard and Peter Sloterdijk, the article analyses maritime zonation as a paradigmatic global security mechanism. It examines how maritime spatial planning seeks to reconfigure sea-space into multi-dimensional spheres of predictability and rationality. These processes, it proposes, s…
Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010
Zones and routes: Securing a western Indian Ocean
This paper examines power relations along the African coast of the Indian Ocean in terms of space and time. Spatial strategies, it argues, are swiftly emerging through zoning mechanisms which territorialise the governance of ocean space. These strategies can supplement and disrupt more traditional temporal strategies, which facilitate speed and freedom of movement for commercial and military traffic. The article focusses on the US proposition to …
Reasonable force: The emergence of global policing power
This article introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The article tracks the development of reasonable force in late modern policing through to its emergence as a vanguard strategy of post-Cold War global governance. Police power, the article finds, has transformed tradit…
Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security
This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War. Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable and forcible methods to preserve and spread liberal values. The book examines the reason police reform was introduced as a method of building consensus in…
Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security
On the contemporary relevance of 'left nationalism
This article re-examines the relevance of 'left nationalism' as a form of progressive response to globalization, and argues that despite the considerable work that has been done to revise the concept of nationalism in the light of orthodox Marxist criticisms, such moves ultimately fall into the same divisionary trap that dogged the nationalist struggles inherent in post-colonialism
The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro
This article forms a critique of security sector reforms implemented in Albania and Montenegro between 2000 and 2007 by and on behalf of the European Union. It argues that within these reforms it is possible to discern a tension between a more holistic development approach and a security-based approach that is top-down and largely founded on the self-referential security concerns of the European Union. Drawing on research conducted by the author …
Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals
The present article analyses the role of the District Policing Partnership Boards conceptualized by the Patten Report as a pivotal aspect of policing reform in Northern Ireland. It argues that, as originally envisaged, these Boards possessed a participatory capacity to transform rigid institutionalized relations of power between state and society. In outlining their potential the article aims to highlight the difference between traditional consul…
The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland
This article examines proposals for the reform of the relationship between internal security and state-society relations in Northern Ireland and finds a divergence from the usual liberal package of police reforms. These proposals embraced the political nature of security provision and aimed to create authentically democratic institutions endowed with sufficient power to contest the state's control over the monopoly of force. Through a Habermassia…
Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police
Based on research undertaken in southern Serbia following the introduction of multi-ethnic policing units, this article examines the pluralist intentions behind attempts to democratize security through community-oriented policing (COP). It details the achievements and the limitations of attempts to institute multi-ethnic policing as a foundational strategy for COP. Evidence is presented that the reforms did not sufficiently empower local actors o…
What the Police are Supposed to Do: Contrasting Expectations of Community Policing in Serbia
Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in an authoritarian context. The article aims to define the difficulties encountered by transitional police organizations and to examine the type of solutions that have been proffered both by the police …
Security spheres: A phenomenology of maritime spatial practices
This article explores maritime protection zones (MPZ), which are being created in the territorial waters of a number of European states. Through the work of Gaston Bachelard and Peter Sloterdijk, the article analyses maritime zonation as a paradigmatic global security mechanism. It examines how maritime spatial planning seeks to reconfigure sea-space into multi-dimensional spheres of predictability and rationality. These processes, it proposes, s…
Reasonable force: The emergence of global policing power
This article introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The article tracks the development of reasonable force in late modern policing through to its emergence as a vanguard strategy of post-Cold War global governance. Police power, the article finds, has transformed tradit…
On the contemporary relevance of 'left nationalism
This article re-examines the relevance of 'left nationalism' as a form of progressive response to globalization, and argues that despite the considerable work that has been done to revise the concept of nationalism in the light of orthodox Marxist criticisms, such moves ultimately fall into the same divisionary trap that dogged the nationalist struggles inherent in post-colonialism
The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro
This article forms a critique of security sector reforms implemented in Albania and Montenegro between 2000 and 2007 by and on behalf of the European Union. It argues that within these reforms it is possible to discern a tension between a more holistic development approach and a security-based approach that is top-down and largely founded on the self-referential security concerns of the European Union. Drawing on research conducted by the author …
The disciplined sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation
This article details the evolution of maritime security from the perspective of its impact on the historical architecture of sea space. It argues that, as the fundamental unit of governance, zoning provides keen insight into the mechanics of maritime security. The article observes that Britain's Hovering Acts in the late eighteenth century represent the earliest example of modern zonation at sea and that they exhibit a shift from early modern ter…
Maritime security: The Uncharted Politics of the Global Sea
In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article 'Beyond seablindness: a new agenda for maritime security studies', published in this journal in November 2017. We reiterate our call for more scholarly attention to be paid to the maritime environment in international relations and security studies. We argue that the contemporary maritime security…
What the Police are Supposed to Do: Contrasting Expectations of Community Policing in Serbia
Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in an authoritarian context. The article aims to define the difficulties encountered by transitional police organizations and to examine the type of solutions that have been proffered both by the police …
Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance
We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it occludes the possibility that there exists political activity that is manifestly defiant. The article takes issue with this tendency and identifies a mode of resistance that is explicitly defiant. In…
Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals
The present article analyses the role of the District Policing Partnership Boards conceptualized by the Patten Report as a pivotal aspect of policing reform in Northern Ireland. It argues that, as originally envisaged, these Boards possessed a participatory capacity to transform rigid institutionalized relations of power between state and society. In outlining their potential the article aims to highlight the difference between traditional consul…
Zones and routes: Securing a western Indian Ocean
This paper examines power relations along the African coast of the Indian Ocean in terms of space and time. Spatial strategies, it argues, are swiftly emerging through zoning mechanisms which territorialise the governance of ocean space. These strategies can supplement and disrupt more traditional temporal strategies, which facilitate speed and freedom of movement for commercial and military traffic. The article focusses on the US proposition to …
Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police
Based on research undertaken in southern Serbia following the introduction of multi-ethnic policing units, this article examines the pluralist intentions behind attempts to democratize security through community-oriented policing (COP). It details the achievements and the limitations of attempts to institute multi-ethnic policing as a foundational strategy for COP. Evidence is presented that the reforms did not sufficiently empower local actors o…
Quasi-pluralism in a Quasi-peace: South Serbia's Multi-ethnic Police
Based on research undertaken in southern Serbia following the introduction of multi-ethnic policing units, this article examines the pluralist intentions behind attempts to democratize security through community-oriented policing (COP). It details the achievements and the limitations of attempts to institute multi-ethnic policing as a foundational strategy for COP. Evidence is presented that the reforms did not sufficiently empower local actors o…
What the Police are Supposed to Do: Contrasting Expectations of Community Policing in Serbia
Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in an authoritarian context. The article aims to define the difficulties encountered by transitional police organizations and to examine the type of solutions that have been proffered both by the police …
Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnerships and the Participatory Ideals
The present article analyses the role of the District Policing Partnership Boards conceptualized by the Patten Report as a pivotal aspect of policing reform in Northern Ireland. It argues that, as originally envisaged, these Boards possessed a participatory capacity to transform rigid institutionalized relations of power between state and society. In outlining their potential the article aims to highlight the difference between traditional consul…
The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland
This article examines proposals for the reform of the relationship between internal security and state-society relations in Northern Ireland and finds a divergence from the usual liberal package of police reforms. These proposals embraced the political nature of security provision and aimed to create authentically democratic institutions endowed with sufficient power to contest the state's control over the monopoly of force. Through a Habermassia…
The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro
This article forms a critique of security sector reforms implemented in Albania and Montenegro between 2000 and 2007 by and on behalf of the European Union. It argues that within these reforms it is possible to discern a tension between a more holistic development approach and a security-based approach that is top-down and largely founded on the self-referential security concerns of the European Union. Drawing on research conducted by the author …
On the contemporary relevance of 'left nationalism
This article re-examines the relevance of 'left nationalism' as a form of progressive response to globalization, and argues that despite the considerable work that has been done to revise the concept of nationalism in the light of orthodox Marxist criticisms, such moves ultimately fall into the same divisionary trap that dogged the nationalist struggles inherent in post-colonialism
Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security
This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War. Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread of liberal democracy. Policing is distinguished by its ability to combine reasonable and forcible methods to preserve and spread liberal values. The book examines the reason police reform was introduced as a method of building consensus in…
Statebuilding and Police Reform: The Freedom of Security
Zones and routes: Securing a western Indian Ocean
This paper examines power relations along the African coast of the Indian Ocean in terms of space and time. Spatial strategies, it argues, are swiftly emerging through zoning mechanisms which territorialise the governance of ocean space. These strategies can supplement and disrupt more traditional temporal strategies, which facilitate speed and freedom of movement for commercial and military traffic. The article focusses on the US proposition to …
Reasonable force: The emergence of global policing power
This article introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The article tracks the development of reasonable force in late modern policing through to its emergence as a vanguard strategy of post-Cold War global governance. Police power, the article finds, has transformed tradit…
Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010
Security spheres: A phenomenology of maritime spatial practices
This article explores maritime protection zones (MPZ), which are being created in the territorial waters of a number of European states. Through the work of Gaston Bachelard and Peter Sloterdijk, the article analyses maritime zonation as a paradigmatic global security mechanism. It examines how maritime spatial planning seeks to reconfigure sea-space into multi-dimensional spheres of predictability and rationality. These processes, it proposes, s…
Becoming Montenegrin: Biopower, police reform and human rights
The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the paper explores the biopolitics of liberalisation. The paper aims to demonstrate norms of internal security liberalisation that operate beyond a legal understanding of state power. It illustrates the op…
Platonic Speleology and Peter Sloterdijk's Theory of Pseudonymous Politics
The Impact of Social Inclusion on the Social Development of Students with a General Learning Difficulty in Postprimary Education in Ireland
Over the past decade, there has been a societal push for social inclusion in Ireland for students with special educational needs (SEN). As a result, the number of dedicated special needs schools has dramatically decreased across the country as students with SEN enrol, instead, in mainstream schools. Dedicated SEN schools provided an environment in which students with a general learning difficulty (GLD) could develop at a pace suited to them. Howe…
The disciplined sea: A History of Maritime Security and Zonation
This article details the evolution of maritime security from the perspective of its impact on the historical architecture of sea space. It argues that, as the fundamental unit of governance, zoning provides keen insight into the mechanics of maritime security. The article observes that Britain's Hovering Acts in the late eighteenth century represent the earliest example of modern zonation at sea and that they exhibit a shift from early modern ter…
Maritime security: The Uncharted Politics of the Global Sea
In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article 'Beyond seablindness: a new agenda for maritime security studies', published in this journal in November 2017. We reiterate our call for more scholarly attention to be paid to the maritime environment in international relations and security studies. We argue that the contemporary maritime security…
Standing Acts: The Political Aesthetics of Defiant Resistance
We most commonly encounter the word defiance when used as an adverb to classify a peculiarly courageous or risky act of resistance. However, the use of the word defiance in this way is a departure from the historical meaning of the word. Moreover, it occludes the possibility that there exists political activity that is manifestly defiant. The article takes issue with this tendency and identifies a mode of resistance that is explicitly defiant. In…
Routledge Handbook of Maritime Security
Routledge Handbook of Maritime Security
Supporting female and gender diverse students in undergraduate STEM courses through enhancing self-efficacy
This study explores the relationship between gender and class-specific self-efficacy in undergraduate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses, with a focus on the impact of pedagogical practices. Data from 483 students surveyed during the first weeks of their courses provide insights into how gender interacts with age, race, generational status, and study field to shape students’ perceived confidence in understanding mate…
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