Stephen Fitzsimmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 342224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Fitzsimmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzsimmon |
| SIGNATURE | FITZSIMMON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9606-0360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Personality and adherence to international agreements: The case of President Donald Trump
Although Donald Trump's foreign policy behavior is often characterized as erratic and unpredictable, he was remarkably consistent in his hostility toward international agreements. The president withdrew or threatened to withdraw the United States from several agreements and consistently characterized agreements as 'horrible deals' that 'cheat' his country. This article explores why Trump exhibited such consistent disdain for international agreeme…
Contracting Blowback: The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War
This article assesses the influence of Private Security Companies’ (PSCs’) violence against insurgents and noncombatants on the frequency of insurgent attacks against PSCs during the 2004 to 2009 period of the Iraq War. It finds that PSC violence may have exerted fairly weak influence on short-term variations in the frequency with which insurgents attacked the firms. It also finds that variations in the frequency of insurgent attacks against PSCs…
Mercenaries and Private Security Companies
Mercenaries are fighters who are primarily motivated by economic gain and bound by short‐term contracts. Unlike regular soldiers, they owe no allegiance to particular countries or regimes; rather, they choose where and when they fight and for whom. They fight and kill on behalf of their clients or train the client's regular forces to do the same
Just war theory and private security companies
Journal Article Just war theory and private security companies Get access SCOTT FITZSIMMONS SCOTT FITZSIMMONS 1Lecturer in International Relations in the University of Limerick's Department of Politics and Public Administration Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 1069–1084, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12398 Published: 16 September 2015
Canadian Public Opinion about the Military: Assessing the Influences on Attitudes toward Defence Spending and Participation in Overseas Combat Operations
Despite more than a decade of heightened defence spending and active fighting in the War in Afghanistan, the longest combat operation in the history of the Canadian Forces, scholars know precious little about how the socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of Canadians may influence their views about taking part in overseas combat operations and funding the institution charged with carrying out these dangerous activities. By testing a ran…
Effective but inefficient: Understanding the costs of counterterrorism
This article analyses state counterterrorism (CT) policy on two dimensions: its effectiveness and its efficiency. It points out that CT is likely to be effective but inefficient. The material weakness of terrorist groups in relation to their state opponents, and different organisational dilemmas, increases the probability of an effective CT policy. However, states frequently overreact to terrorist attacks, which are valued in normative instead of…
When Few Stood against Many: Explaining Executive Outcomes’ Victory in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
In November 1996, one of Africa’s cruelest insurgent leaders, Foday Sankoh, conceded defeat and agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Government of Sierra Leone to halt that country’s then-seven y
Wheeled Warriors: Explaining Variations in the Use of Violence by Private Security Companies in Iraq
This article engages one of the most widely discussed but poorly understood aspects of the Iraq War: the use of violence by private security companies. It explains why, despite sharing several important characteristics—coming from the same general population of military and police veterans, working for the same client during the same time period, performing the same tasks under the same client-imposed rules of engagement, and facing the same kind…
Privatizing the struggle against Somali piracy
Pirate attacks against commercial vessels in the Western Indian Ocean and nearby seas reached an unprecedented level in 2011. Despite concerted efforts by the international community and shipping companies to address this threat by conducting naval patrols and equipping commercial vessels with non-lethal defenses, the frequency of pirate attacks continues to increase. The general ineffectiveness of existing anti-piracy measures has sparked intere…
Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts
The Anthropologist in a Strange Land
The use of ethnography as a methodology in public policy research required negotiation of a complex contract between the federal government and a research firm employing anthropologists to conduct the research. Because of the complexity of this methodology, the presence of an interdisciplinary research team, the objectives of the federal government for this research, and lack of any major precedent, the achievement of a negotiated agreement accep…
The Anthropologist in a Strange Land
The use of ethnography as a methodology in public policy research required negotiation of a complex contract between the federal government and a research firm employing anthropologists to conduct the research. Because of the complexity of this methodology, the presence of an interdisciplinary research team, the objectives of the federal government for this research, and lack of any major precedent, the achievement of a negotiated agreement accep…
Wheeled Warriors: Explaining Variations in the Use of Violence by Private Security Companies in Iraq
This article engages one of the most widely discussed but poorly understood aspects of the Iraq War: the use of violence by private security companies. It explains why, despite sharing several important characteristics—coming from the same general population of military and police veterans, working for the same client during the same time period, performing the same tasks under the same client-imposed rules of engagement, and facing the same kind…
Canadian Public Opinion about the Military: Assessing the Influences on Attitudes toward Defence Spending and Participation in Overseas Combat Operations
Despite more than a decade of heightened defence spending and active fighting in the War in Afghanistan, the longest combat operation in the history of the Canadian Forces, scholars know precious little about how the socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of Canadians may influence their views about taking part in overseas combat operations and funding the institution charged with carrying out these dangerous activities. By testing a ran…
Personality and adherence to international agreements: The case of President Donald Trump
Although Donald Trump's foreign policy behavior is often characterized as erratic and unpredictable, he was remarkably consistent in his hostility toward international agreements. The president withdrew or threatened to withdraw the United States from several agreements and consistently characterized agreements as 'horrible deals' that 'cheat' his country. This article explores why Trump exhibited such consistent disdain for international agreeme…
Just war theory and private security companies
Journal Article Just war theory and private security companies Get access SCOTT FITZSIMMONS SCOTT FITZSIMMONS 1Lecturer in International Relations in the University of Limerick's Department of Politics and Public Administration Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 1069–1084, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12398 Published: 16 September 2015
Effective but inefficient: Understanding the costs of counterterrorism
This article analyses state counterterrorism (CT) policy on two dimensions: its effectiveness and its efficiency. It points out that CT is likely to be effective but inefficient. The material weakness of terrorist groups in relation to their state opponents, and different organisational dilemmas, increases the probability of an effective CT policy. However, states frequently overreact to terrorist attacks, which are valued in normative instead of…
When Few Stood against Many: Explaining Executive Outcomes’ Victory in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
In November 1996, one of Africa’s cruelest insurgent leaders, Foday Sankoh, conceded defeat and agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Government of Sierra Leone to halt that country’s then-seven y
Privatizing the struggle against Somali piracy
Pirate attacks against commercial vessels in the Western Indian Ocean and nearby seas reached an unprecedented level in 2011. Despite concerted efforts by the international community and shipping companies to address this threat by conducting naval patrols and equipping commercial vessels with non-lethal defenses, the frequency of pirate attacks continues to increase. The general ineffectiveness of existing anti-piracy measures has sparked intere…
The Anthropologist in a Strange Land
The use of ethnography as a methodology in public policy research required negotiation of a complex contract between the federal government and a research firm employing anthropologists to conduct the research. Because of the complexity of this methodology, the presence of an interdisciplinary research team, the objectives of the federal government for this research, and lack of any major precedent, the achievement of a negotiated agreement accep…
Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts
Effective but inefficient: Understanding the costs of counterterrorism
This article analyses state counterterrorism (CT) policy on two dimensions: its effectiveness and its efficiency. It points out that CT is likely to be effective but inefficient. The material weakness of terrorist groups in relation to their state opponents, and different organisational dilemmas, increases the probability of an effective CT policy. However, states frequently overreact to terrorist attacks, which are valued in normative instead of…
When Few Stood against Many: Explaining Executive Outcomes’ Victory in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
In November 1996, one of Africa’s cruelest insurgent leaders, Foday Sankoh, conceded defeat and agreed to sign a peace treaty with the Government of Sierra Leone to halt that country’s then-seven y
Wheeled Warriors: Explaining Variations in the Use of Violence by Private Security Companies in Iraq
This article engages one of the most widely discussed but poorly understood aspects of the Iraq War: the use of violence by private security companies. It explains why, despite sharing several important characteristics—coming from the same general population of military and police veterans, working for the same client during the same time period, performing the same tasks under the same client-imposed rules of engagement, and facing the same kind…
Privatizing the struggle against Somali piracy
Pirate attacks against commercial vessels in the Western Indian Ocean and nearby seas reached an unprecedented level in 2011. Despite concerted efforts by the international community and shipping companies to address this threat by conducting naval patrols and equipping commercial vessels with non-lethal defenses, the frequency of pirate attacks continues to increase. The general ineffectiveness of existing anti-piracy measures has sparked intere…
Canadian Public Opinion about the Military: Assessing the Influences on Attitudes toward Defence Spending and Participation in Overseas Combat Operations
Despite more than a decade of heightened defence spending and active fighting in the War in Afghanistan, the longest combat operation in the history of the Canadian Forces, scholars know precious little about how the socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of Canadians may influence their views about taking part in overseas combat operations and funding the institution charged with carrying out these dangerous activities. By testing a ran…
Just war theory and private security companies
Journal Article Just war theory and private security companies Get access SCOTT FITZSIMMONS SCOTT FITZSIMMONS 1Lecturer in International Relations in the University of Limerick's Department of Politics and Public Administration Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 1069–1084, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12398 Published: 16 September 2015
Mercenaries and Private Security Companies
Mercenaries are fighters who are primarily motivated by economic gain and bound by short‐term contracts. Unlike regular soldiers, they owe no allegiance to particular countries or regimes; rather, they choose where and when they fight and for whom. They fight and kill on behalf of their clients or train the client's regular forces to do the same
Contracting Blowback: The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War
This article assesses the influence of Private Security Companies’ (PSCs’) violence against insurgents and noncombatants on the frequency of insurgent attacks against PSCs during the 2004 to 2009 period of the Iraq War. It finds that PSC violence may have exerted fairly weak influence on short-term variations in the frequency with which insurgents attacked the firms. It also finds that variations in the frequency of insurgent attacks against PSCs…
Personality and adherence to international agreements: The case of President Donald Trump
Although Donald Trump's foreign policy behavior is often characterized as erratic and unpredictable, he was remarkably consistent in his hostility toward international agreements. The president withdrew or threatened to withdraw the United States from several agreements and consistently characterized agreements as 'horrible deals' that 'cheat' his country. This article explores why Trump exhibited such consistent disdain for international agreeme…
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