Thomas O''Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas O''Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN T O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The morphological affinity of the Early Pleistocene footprints from Happisburgh, England, with other footprints of Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene age
Get out of Traian Square: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania
Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return to an imagined past. In Romania, far right groups have been able to capitalize on a sense of injustice while also playing on historically negative feelings towards the Roma community. These patterns have been observed in Timişoara, where the group Noua Dreaptă (New Right) has est…
The primacy of political security: Contentious politics and insecurity in the Tunisian revolution
The removal of Ben Ali's regime in Tunisia signalled the start of the Arab Spring. The abrupt nature of the regime change raises questions about why it happened in the way it did. This article examines the contextual factors that precipitated the regime change through the lens of political security. The aim is to examine how political insecurity in society led to the emergence of opposition sufficiently organized to unseat Ben Ali. The paper deve…
Perceptions and Expectations: Divergent Approaches to Understanding Social Movement Outcomes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas O'BrienThomas O'Brien is a lecturer in the Centre for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University. His research examines leadership, democratisation, environmental politics and human security. Previous work has appeared in British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Politics, Conflict, Security and Development, Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Studies
Leaving the Minors: The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2011 General Election
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has emerged as a successful environmentally focused party with a solid base. The 2011 General Election represented a high-point for the party, distancing it from the other minor parties. This article explores examples of factors affecting the success of Green parties, and examines the strategy of the New Zealand Green Party prior to the 2011 election. The findings indicate that the party has developed stabl…
Fires and Flotillas: Opposition to Offshore Oil Exploration in New Zealand
The growing cost of oil, driven by rising demand and instability in major oil-producing states, has encouraged the development of domestic sources. This article examines a campaign against offshore oil exploration in New Zealand, which brought together indigenous and environmental activists. It identifies the main actors and the character of the resistance, placing it within the broader context of environmentally focused protest in New Zealand an…
States and Social Movements (Political Sociology Series)
States and Social Movements (Political Sociology Series)." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 480–481
Food riots as representations of insecurity: Examining the Relationship Between Contentious Politics and Human Security
The 2007–08 global food crisis saw the eruption of a wave of contentious action across the developing world, represented most clearly by the food riot. Food riots are sudden, unexpected events, presenting a challenge to the state that moves beyond simple demands for food. The upheaval caused by a food riot can lead to lasting instability and violence as social and political structures are challenged. The aims of the article are to: (1) identify t…
Environmental protest in New Zealand (1997-2010)
Protest actions are an important indicator of public concern, raising awareness and highlighting perceived failings in administrative practices. With increasing prominence of environmental challenges there has been a move for states to incorporate stakeholders, potentially reducing the need for such confrontational actions. This article uses protest event analysis and case comparison to examine the scale and character of environmental protest act…
Problems of political transition in Ukraine: Leadership Failure and Democratic Consolidation
Democratisation and consolidation of a political system encompass a range of complex challenges, for which effective leadership is pivotal. However, the skills that a leader requires to break through and introduce change are not necessarily the same as those needed to maintain stability. This article examines the case of Viktor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine following the Orange Revolution. The negotiated transfer of power from the previous s…
A Survey of Gay/Lesbian Catholics Concerning Attitudes Toward Sexual Orientation and Religious Beliefs
The negative assessment of lesbian/gay relationships in Catholic circles is most often based on scanty information gathered from folklore, the commercial media, and a narrow, literal reading of Biblical texts. Assumptions are made about the personal adjustment of individual gay/lesbian persons and the quality of their relationships without recourse to actual lived experience. This survey of 263 gay/lesbian Catholics and 20 controls was designed t…
Landowners and Reform in Chile: The Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura 1919-40
The morphological affinity of the Early Pleistocene footprints from Happisburgh, England, with other footprints of Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene age
Get out of Traian Square: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania
Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return to an imagined past. In Romania, far right groups have been able to capitalize on a sense of injustice while also playing on historically negative feelings towards the Roma community. These patterns have been observed in Timişoara, where the group Noua Dreaptă (New Right) has est…
Environmental protest in New Zealand (1997-2010)
Protest actions are an important indicator of public concern, raising awareness and highlighting perceived failings in administrative practices. With increasing prominence of environmental challenges there has been a move for states to incorporate stakeholders, potentially reducing the need for such confrontational actions. This article uses protest event analysis and case comparison to examine the scale and character of environmental protest act…
The primacy of political security: Contentious politics and insecurity in the Tunisian revolution
The removal of Ben Ali's regime in Tunisia signalled the start of the Arab Spring. The abrupt nature of the regime change raises questions about why it happened in the way it did. This article examines the contextual factors that precipitated the regime change through the lens of political security. The aim is to examine how political insecurity in society led to the emergence of opposition sufficiently organized to unseat Ben Ali. The paper deve…
Problems of political transition in Ukraine: Leadership Failure and Democratic Consolidation
Democratisation and consolidation of a political system encompass a range of complex challenges, for which effective leadership is pivotal. However, the skills that a leader requires to break through and introduce change are not necessarily the same as those needed to maintain stability. This article examines the case of Viktor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine following the Orange Revolution. The negotiated transfer of power from the previous s…
Leaving the Minors: The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2011 General Election
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has emerged as a successful environmentally focused party with a solid base. The 2011 General Election represented a high-point for the party, distancing it from the other minor parties. This article explores examples of factors affecting the success of Green parties, and examines the strategy of the New Zealand Green Party prior to the 2011 election. The findings indicate that the party has developed stabl…
Food riots as representations of insecurity: Examining the Relationship Between Contentious Politics and Human Security
The 2007–08 global food crisis saw the eruption of a wave of contentious action across the developing world, represented most clearly by the food riot. Food riots are sudden, unexpected events, presenting a challenge to the state that moves beyond simple demands for food. The upheaval caused by a food riot can lead to lasting instability and violence as social and political structures are challenged. The aims of the article are to: (1) identify t…
A Survey of Gay/Lesbian Catholics Concerning Attitudes Toward Sexual Orientation and Religious Beliefs
The negative assessment of lesbian/gay relationships in Catholic circles is most often based on scanty information gathered from folklore, the commercial media, and a narrow, literal reading of Biblical texts. Assumptions are made about the personal adjustment of individual gay/lesbian persons and the quality of their relationships without recourse to actual lived experience. This survey of 263 gay/lesbian Catholics and 20 controls was designed t…
Fires and Flotillas: Opposition to Offshore Oil Exploration in New Zealand
The growing cost of oil, driven by rising demand and instability in major oil-producing states, has encouraged the development of domestic sources. This article examines a campaign against offshore oil exploration in New Zealand, which brought together indigenous and environmental activists. It identifies the main actors and the character of the resistance, placing it within the broader context of environmentally focused protest in New Zealand an…
Landowners and Reform in Chile: The Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura 1919-40
A Survey of Gay/Lesbian Catholics Concerning Attitudes Toward Sexual Orientation and Religious Beliefs
The negative assessment of lesbian/gay relationships in Catholic circles is most often based on scanty information gathered from folklore, the commercial media, and a narrow, literal reading of Biblical texts. Assumptions are made about the personal adjustment of individual gay/lesbian persons and the quality of their relationships without recourse to actual lived experience. This survey of 263 gay/lesbian Catholics and 20 controls was designed t…
Problems of political transition in Ukraine: Leadership Failure and Democratic Consolidation
Democratisation and consolidation of a political system encompass a range of complex challenges, for which effective leadership is pivotal. However, the skills that a leader requires to break through and introduce change are not necessarily the same as those needed to maintain stability. This article examines the case of Viktor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine following the Orange Revolution. The negotiated transfer of power from the previous s…
States and Social Movements (Political Sociology Series)
States and Social Movements (Political Sociology Series)." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 480–481
Food riots as representations of insecurity: Examining the Relationship Between Contentious Politics and Human Security
The 2007–08 global food crisis saw the eruption of a wave of contentious action across the developing world, represented most clearly by the food riot. Food riots are sudden, unexpected events, presenting a challenge to the state that moves beyond simple demands for food. The upheaval caused by a food riot can lead to lasting instability and violence as social and political structures are challenged. The aims of the article are to: (1) identify t…
Environmental protest in New Zealand (1997-2010)
Protest actions are an important indicator of public concern, raising awareness and highlighting perceived failings in administrative practices. With increasing prominence of environmental challenges there has been a move for states to incorporate stakeholders, potentially reducing the need for such confrontational actions. This article uses protest event analysis and case comparison to examine the scale and character of environmental protest act…
Leaving the Minors: The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2011 General Election
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has emerged as a successful environmentally focused party with a solid base. The 2011 General Election represented a high-point for the party, distancing it from the other minor parties. This article explores examples of factors affecting the success of Green parties, and examines the strategy of the New Zealand Green Party prior to the 2011 election. The findings indicate that the party has developed stabl…
Fires and Flotillas: Opposition to Offshore Oil Exploration in New Zealand
The growing cost of oil, driven by rising demand and instability in major oil-producing states, has encouraged the development of domestic sources. This article examines a campaign against offshore oil exploration in New Zealand, which brought together indigenous and environmental activists. It identifies the main actors and the character of the resistance, placing it within the broader context of environmentally focused protest in New Zealand an…
The primacy of political security: Contentious politics and insecurity in the Tunisian revolution
The removal of Ben Ali's regime in Tunisia signalled the start of the Arab Spring. The abrupt nature of the regime change raises questions about why it happened in the way it did. This article examines the contextual factors that precipitated the regime change through the lens of political security. The aim is to examine how political insecurity in society led to the emergence of opposition sufficiently organized to unseat Ben Ali. The paper deve…
Perceptions and Expectations: Divergent Approaches to Understanding Social Movement Outcomes
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas O'BrienThomas O'Brien is a lecturer in the Centre for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University. His research examines leadership, democratisation, environmental politics and human security. Previous work has appeared in British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Politics, Conflict, Security and Development, Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Studies
Get out of Traian Square: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania
Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return to an imagined past. In Romania, far right groups have been able to capitalize on a sense of injustice while also playing on historically negative feelings towards the Roma community. These patterns have been observed in Timişoara, where the group Noua Dreaptă (New Right) has est…
The morphological affinity of the Early Pleistocene footprints from Happisburgh, England, with other footprints of Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene age
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