Stephen Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0160-7934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Boundary Commission Revisited: The Thatcher–FitzGerald Talks
Ar Dàimhean is Dualchas: Safeguarding Scotland ’ s Intangible Cultural Heritage
In June 2024, the UK Government ratified the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Convention has virtually global coverage and provides an established framework for the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). However, its status of ‘soft law’ means that states rely on domestic law, often copyright, to implement the requirements of the convention and provide meaningful guidance to their citi…
Practising Freedom: Combatting modern slavery in heterotopic spaces
From 2018 – 2022, Dr Collins and Act for Change undertook a series of community arts-based research projects in James Town, Accra. These projects were designed to engage with survivors of modern slavery in the James Town community and, using performance, bring their stories to a local audience with the aim of building collective resilience to combat modern slavery. One of the key areas of enquiry to emerge from the project was the function and dy…
Must know Photoshop: Proprietary skills and media jobs in Australia
Over the last two decades, media and associated creative disciplines have moved increasingly towards digital and online production. This shift has seen proprietary software companies clamouring for market share by proclaiming their product as 'industry standard' ( Keith et al., 2021 ). These discourses of professionalism implicitly suggest that proficiency in particular software leads to improved employment outcomes. In turn, many higher educatio…
Haughey by Gary Murphy
Reviewed by: Haughey by Gary Murphy Stephen Collins (bio) Gary Murphy, Haughey (Dublin: Gill Books, 2021), 716 pages. During his lifetime Charles Haughey captured the public imagination like no other politician, inspiring fanatical loyalty from some and deep suspicion from others. He was charismatic, divisive, intimidating and hugely able; prone to dreadful decision on some occasions and inspired choices on others. It was the contradictions in Ha…
Experiences of Older People Volunteering within a Compassionate Community: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
No Complaints: A Memoir of Life in Rural Ireland and in the Irish Public Service by Maurice O’Connell (review)
necessitates a conceptual scope sufficient to describe this complexity. We again see the utility and relevance of Francis’ formulation of the problem in terms of ‘integral ecology’. This is the best examination of the climate crisis in Ireland yet written. It offers new arguments and angles of interpretation to those already well versed in the subject. It is an essential text for anyone who seeks to understand the crisis and our possible response…
Who owns Ananse? The tangled web of folklore and copyright in Ghana
In this article, I explore the interface between law and cultural creativity; focussing on Ghana, I examine the efficacy of copyright as a mechanism for the protection of folklore and the potential impact of that protection on Ghana’s playwrights. In 2005, Ghana introduced a copyright act that makes access to Ghanaian folklore by nationals and non-nationals contingent on gaining consent from the National Folklore Office and paying an undisclosed …
Europe’s united future after Brexit: Brexit has not killed the European Union, rather it has eliminated the largest obstacle to EU consolidation
Predictions that Brexit will precipitate the disintegration of the European Union (EU) have greatly overstated the prospect of such an event. Britain's centuries-long conflicted relationship with Europe and contemporary survey data – exhibiting marked differences between Britain and the rest of Europe with regard to Euroskepticism – suggest that Brexit is a sui generis event, unique to Britain, and is not a harbinger of things to come. Conversely…
State‐Sponsored Terrorism: In Decline, Yet Still a Potent Threat
State sponsorship has played a significant facilitating role in terrorist violence. The scope and impact of state support has not, however, remained fixed; nor has its threat potential. This article identifies and depicts three distinct phases of state sponsorship: the peak (1970s‐80s), intermediate (1990‐2001), and low (2001‐present) phases. The causal factors behind the steady pattern of decline in the number of states sponsoring terrorism and …
Regional Trade Agreements and Democracy Promotion: Measuring the Influence of Democracy Requirements in Regional Trade Agreements
This article examines the capacity of regional trade agreements (RTAs) to assist and foster democracy in their respective regions. While the principal raison d'être of RTAs is to stimulate economic growth among its member states, several regional trade associations have embedded democratic requirements into their governance documents. These requirements elevate democracy to a fundamental value of the associations, and mandate (in most instances) …
Indigenous rights and internal wars: The Chiapas conflict at 15 years
This article examines the origins and outcomes of the indigenous-based Zapatista rebellion launched 15 years ago in Chiapas, Mexico. The precursors responsible for the resistance movement are assessed, as well as the proximate events which convinced the indigenous communities to embrace a militarized approach. International relations conflict theory is plumbed for explanations of the conflict and for conflict resolution strategies relevant to thi…
Can America Finance Freedom? Assessing U.S. Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft
Recent discourse on U.S. efforts to promote democracy has focused on military activities; especially the strategic and normative perils of democracy promotion at the point of bayonets. This paper explores the United States' use of economic statecraft to foster democratization, with particular attention to democracy incentive and assistance strategies. Incentive approaches attempt to promote democracy from the top-down, by leveraging aid and trade…
Campaign Strategies
In the middle of the 2002 general election campaign the Attorney General in the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrat coalition, Michael McDowell, climbed up a telegraph pole at Ranelagh in the heart of his Dublin SouthEast constituency to hang up a poster bewailing the dangers of single-party government. It was a publicity stunt, which featured prominently on the main evening television news bulletins and in the following day's Sunday newspapers. In …
Dissuading State Support of Terrorism: Strikes or Sanctions? (An Analysis of Dissuasion Measures Employed Against Libya)
This study examines the efficacy of various strategies of dissuading state support for terrorism. Libya represents the principle case study employed to test the impact of military force, unilateral economic sanctions, and multilateral economic sanctions against states which provide support to international terrorist organizations. The frequency of Libyan-supported terrorist attacks declined after the application, in 1986, of U.S. unilateral econo…
Reason, nature and order’: The stepfamily in English Renaissance thought
The German Lander and EU enlargement: Between apple pie and issue linkage
Following the Maastricht Treaty, the German Lander won unprecedented, collective rights of input into German EU policy making, extending across a wide range of EU policy fields. An analysis of Lander policy on EU eastern enlargement — focused here on Bavaria and Saxony ‐ points to a dilemma for the Lander in exercising these rights. Divergences of interest and priority militate against the generation of collective majority decisions. Beneath a ve…
British Stepfamily Relationships, 1500-1800
The evidence about relationships in British stepfamilies between 1500 and 1800 deals mostly with relationships between adults, not between adults and young children. A dominant theme is the threat posed to inheritance by a parent's remarriage, which had three possibilities: that an heir would be disinherited in favour of the children of the new marriage, that a parent and stepparent would squander their wealth during the biological parent's lifet…
Can America Finance Freedom? Assessing U.S. Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft
Recent discourse on U.S. efforts to promote democracy has focused on military activities; especially the strategic and normative perils of democracy promotion at the point of bayonets. This paper explores the United States' use of economic statecraft to foster democratization, with particular attention to democracy incentive and assistance strategies. Incentive approaches attempt to promote democracy from the top-down, by leveraging aid and trade…
Dissuading State Support of Terrorism: Strikes or Sanctions? (An Analysis of Dissuasion Measures Employed Against Libya)
This study examines the efficacy of various strategies of dissuading state support for terrorism. Libya represents the principle case study employed to test the impact of military force, unilateral economic sanctions, and multilateral economic sanctions against states which provide support to international terrorist organizations. The frequency of Libyan-supported terrorist attacks declined after the application, in 1986, of U.S. unilateral econo…
The German Lander and EU enlargement: Between apple pie and issue linkage
Following the Maastricht Treaty, the German Lander won unprecedented, collective rights of input into German EU policy making, extending across a wide range of EU policy fields. An analysis of Lander policy on EU eastern enlargement — focused here on Bavaria and Saxony ‐ points to a dilemma for the Lander in exercising these rights. Divergences of interest and priority militate against the generation of collective majority decisions. Beneath a ve…
State‐Sponsored Terrorism: In Decline, Yet Still a Potent Threat
State sponsorship has played a significant facilitating role in terrorist violence. The scope and impact of state support has not, however, remained fixed; nor has its threat potential. This article identifies and depicts three distinct phases of state sponsorship: the peak (1970s‐80s), intermediate (1990‐2001), and low (2001‐present) phases. The causal factors behind the steady pattern of decline in the number of states sponsoring terrorism and …
Who owns Ananse? The tangled web of folklore and copyright in Ghana
In this article, I explore the interface between law and cultural creativity; focussing on Ghana, I examine the efficacy of copyright as a mechanism for the protection of folklore and the potential impact of that protection on Ghana’s playwrights. In 2005, Ghana introduced a copyright act that makes access to Ghanaian folklore by nationals and non-nationals contingent on gaining consent from the National Folklore Office and paying an undisclosed …
Europe’s united future after Brexit: Brexit has not killed the European Union, rather it has eliminated the largest obstacle to EU consolidation
Predictions that Brexit will precipitate the disintegration of the European Union (EU) have greatly overstated the prospect of such an event. Britain's centuries-long conflicted relationship with Europe and contemporary survey data – exhibiting marked differences between Britain and the rest of Europe with regard to Euroskepticism – suggest that Brexit is a sui generis event, unique to Britain, and is not a harbinger of things to come. Conversely…
Regional Trade Agreements and Democracy Promotion: Measuring the Influence of Democracy Requirements in Regional Trade Agreements
This article examines the capacity of regional trade agreements (RTAs) to assist and foster democracy in their respective regions. While the principal raison d'être of RTAs is to stimulate economic growth among its member states, several regional trade associations have embedded democratic requirements into their governance documents. These requirements elevate democracy to a fundamental value of the associations, and mandate (in most instances) …
Indigenous rights and internal wars: The Chiapas conflict at 15 years
This article examines the origins and outcomes of the indigenous-based Zapatista rebellion launched 15 years ago in Chiapas, Mexico. The precursors responsible for the resistance movement are assessed, as well as the proximate events which convinced the indigenous communities to embrace a militarized approach. International relations conflict theory is plumbed for explanations of the conflict and for conflict resolution strategies relevant to thi…
British Stepfamily Relationships, 1500-1800
The evidence about relationships in British stepfamilies between 1500 and 1800 deals mostly with relationships between adults, not between adults and young children. A dominant theme is the threat posed to inheritance by a parent's remarriage, which had three possibilities: that an heir would be disinherited in favour of the children of the new marriage, that a parent and stepparent would squander their wealth during the biological parent's lifet…
The German Lander and EU enlargement: Between apple pie and issue linkage
Following the Maastricht Treaty, the German Lander won unprecedented, collective rights of input into German EU policy making, extending across a wide range of EU policy fields. An analysis of Lander policy on EU eastern enlargement — focused here on Bavaria and Saxony ‐ points to a dilemma for the Lander in exercising these rights. Divergences of interest and priority militate against the generation of collective majority decisions. Beneath a ve…
Reason, nature and order’: The stepfamily in English Renaissance thought
Campaign Strategies
In the middle of the 2002 general election campaign the Attorney General in the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrat coalition, Michael McDowell, climbed up a telegraph pole at Ranelagh in the heart of his Dublin SouthEast constituency to hang up a poster bewailing the dangers of single-party government. It was a publicity stunt, which featured prominently on the main evening television news bulletins and in the following day's Sunday newspapers. In …
Dissuading State Support of Terrorism: Strikes or Sanctions? (An Analysis of Dissuasion Measures Employed Against Libya)
This study examines the efficacy of various strategies of dissuading state support for terrorism. Libya represents the principle case study employed to test the impact of military force, unilateral economic sanctions, and multilateral economic sanctions against states which provide support to international terrorist organizations. The frequency of Libyan-supported terrorist attacks declined after the application, in 1986, of U.S. unilateral econo…
Can America Finance Freedom? Assessing U.S. Democracy Promotion via Economic Statecraft
Recent discourse on U.S. efforts to promote democracy has focused on military activities; especially the strategic and normative perils of democracy promotion at the point of bayonets. This paper explores the United States' use of economic statecraft to foster democratization, with particular attention to democracy incentive and assistance strategies. Incentive approaches attempt to promote democracy from the top-down, by leveraging aid and trade…
Regional Trade Agreements and Democracy Promotion: Measuring the Influence of Democracy Requirements in Regional Trade Agreements
This article examines the capacity of regional trade agreements (RTAs) to assist and foster democracy in their respective regions. While the principal raison d'être of RTAs is to stimulate economic growth among its member states, several regional trade associations have embedded democratic requirements into their governance documents. These requirements elevate democracy to a fundamental value of the associations, and mandate (in most instances) …
Indigenous rights and internal wars: The Chiapas conflict at 15 years
This article examines the origins and outcomes of the indigenous-based Zapatista rebellion launched 15 years ago in Chiapas, Mexico. The precursors responsible for the resistance movement are assessed, as well as the proximate events which convinced the indigenous communities to embrace a militarized approach. International relations conflict theory is plumbed for explanations of the conflict and for conflict resolution strategies relevant to thi…
State‐Sponsored Terrorism: In Decline, Yet Still a Potent Threat
State sponsorship has played a significant facilitating role in terrorist violence. The scope and impact of state support has not, however, remained fixed; nor has its threat potential. This article identifies and depicts three distinct phases of state sponsorship: the peak (1970s‐80s), intermediate (1990‐2001), and low (2001‐present) phases. The causal factors behind the steady pattern of decline in the number of states sponsoring terrorism and …
Europe’s united future after Brexit: Brexit has not killed the European Union, rather it has eliminated the largest obstacle to EU consolidation
Predictions that Brexit will precipitate the disintegration of the European Union (EU) have greatly overstated the prospect of such an event. Britain's centuries-long conflicted relationship with Europe and contemporary survey data – exhibiting marked differences between Britain and the rest of Europe with regard to Euroskepticism – suggest that Brexit is a sui generis event, unique to Britain, and is not a harbinger of things to come. Conversely…
Who owns Ananse? The tangled web of folklore and copyright in Ghana
In this article, I explore the interface between law and cultural creativity; focussing on Ghana, I examine the efficacy of copyright as a mechanism for the protection of folklore and the potential impact of that protection on Ghana’s playwrights. In 2005, Ghana introduced a copyright act that makes access to Ghanaian folklore by nationals and non-nationals contingent on gaining consent from the National Folklore Office and paying an undisclosed …
No Complaints: A Memoir of Life in Rural Ireland and in the Irish Public Service by Maurice O’Connell (review)
necessitates a conceptual scope sufficient to describe this complexity. We again see the utility and relevance of Francis’ formulation of the problem in terms of ‘integral ecology’. This is the best examination of the climate crisis in Ireland yet written. It offers new arguments and angles of interpretation to those already well versed in the subject. It is an essential text for anyone who seeks to understand the crisis and our possible response…
Haughey by Gary Murphy
Reviewed by: Haughey by Gary Murphy Stephen Collins (bio) Gary Murphy, Haughey (Dublin: Gill Books, 2021), 716 pages. During his lifetime Charles Haughey captured the public imagination like no other politician, inspiring fanatical loyalty from some and deep suspicion from others. He was charismatic, divisive, intimidating and hugely able; prone to dreadful decision on some occasions and inspired choices on others. It was the contradictions in Ha…
Experiences of Older People Volunteering within a Compassionate Community: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Practising Freedom: Combatting modern slavery in heterotopic spaces
From 2018 – 2022, Dr Collins and Act for Change undertook a series of community arts-based research projects in James Town, Accra. These projects were designed to engage with survivors of modern slavery in the James Town community and, using performance, bring their stories to a local audience with the aim of building collective resilience to combat modern slavery. One of the key areas of enquiry to emerge from the project was the function and dy…
Must know Photoshop: Proprietary skills and media jobs in Australia
Over the last two decades, media and associated creative disciplines have moved increasingly towards digital and online production. This shift has seen proprietary software companies clamouring for market share by proclaiming their product as 'industry standard' ( Keith et al., 2021 ). These discourses of professionalism implicitly suggest that proficiency in particular software leads to improved employment outcomes. In turn, many higher educatio…
The Boundary Commission Revisited: The Thatcher–FitzGerald Talks
Ar Dàimhean is Dualchas: Safeguarding Scotland ’ s Intangible Cultural Heritage
In June 2024, the UK Government ratified the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Convention has virtually global coverage and provides an established framework for the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). However, its status of ‘soft law’ means that states rely on domestic law, often copyright, to implement the requirements of the convention and provide meaningful guidance to their citi…
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