Sean O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5516-7658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Reading Marx
Introduction for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Figuration
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature
Accumulation solaire: La théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse
La série télévisée de Syfy The Expanse (2015- ) transpose une forme de développement inégal combiné du cadre terrestre vers le cadre du système solaire, en faisant un enjeu central de la manière concrète dont les hommes vivent dans l’espace. The Expanse envisage un système solaire habité, composé d’un binôme Terre-Lune contrôlé par les Nations Unies, d’une dictature militaire sur Mars, et d’une ceinture d’astéroïdes densément peuplée. Cet article…
The Law of Diminishing Returns: Precarity and Nonreproduction in the Fall
The essay examines the representation of precarity in the BBC two series, The Fall (2013-), starring Gillian Anderson as detective superitendent Stella Gibson and Jamie Dornan as serial killer as Paul Spector. In the series, institutions of social reproduction are reaveled to be sclerotic, examplified not only in the austerity policies of fiscally insolvent national governments but also in the family and the couple, social forms integral to a sys…
On or off task: The negative influence of laptops on neighboring students’ learning depends on how they are used
‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive
Both masters and victims of their times”: Engaging aporetic time in Midnight’s Children
Time in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is characterized by a cacophony of representational forms that the narrator Saleem uses with and against each other, such as cyclical time, timelessness, and revisionary linear historical time. Existing analyses of the novel’s representations of time have generally concluded that one or another of the competing temporal frameworks in the novel is primary and that Rushdie and Saleem ultimately discard o…
Crisis Early Warning and Decision Support: Contemporary Approaches and Thoughts on Future Research
Military planners and other decision makers require advanced early warning of impending crises so they can devise effective mitigation plans, mobilize resources, and coordinate responses with their foreign counterparts. Over the last 40 years, the US government has invested generously in several attempts to build crisis forecasting systems that were analytically defensible and capable of processing and making sense of vast amounts of information …
Anticipating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Early Warning Approach to Conflict and Instability Analysis
One way to demonstrate progress in a field of scientific inquiry is to show that factors believed to explain some phenomenon can also be used effectively to predict both its occurrence and its nonoccurrence. This study draws on the state strength literature to identify relevant country macrostructural factors that can contribute to different kinds and levels of intensity of conflict and country instabilities. A pattern classification algorithm—fu…
"Creating a "Well Regulated Militia: Policy Responses to Paramilitary Groups in the American States
In a democratic political system responsive to citizen demands govern ments must often balance conflicting interests. The rise of armed right- wing paramilitary groups, and especially the recent growth of citizen militias, have created such a situation in the American states. In particu lar, governments must respond to the threat of armed anti-government groups, while simultaneously attempting to address the "mainstream" con servative issues thes…
Foreign Policy Crises and the Resort to Terrorism: A Time-Series Analysis of Conflict Linkages
This study tests the validity of opposing arguments regarding superpower state sponsorship of international crises by exploring the linkages between the monthly foreign policy crisis behavior of nation-states and the occurrence of international terrorism over a 228-month period from 1968 to 1986 using data drawn from ITERATE 2 and 3 and the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) data sets. Using time-series ARIMA modelling techniques, superpower inv…
Crisis Early Warning and Decision Support: Contemporary Approaches and Thoughts on Future Research
Military planners and other decision makers require advanced early warning of impending crises so they can devise effective mitigation plans, mobilize resources, and coordinate responses with their foreign counterparts. Over the last 40 years, the US government has invested generously in several attempts to build crisis forecasting systems that were analytically defensible and capable of processing and making sense of vast amounts of information …
Foreign Policy Crises and the Resort to Terrorism: A Time-Series Analysis of Conflict Linkages
This study tests the validity of opposing arguments regarding superpower state sponsorship of international crises by exploring the linkages between the monthly foreign policy crisis behavior of nation-states and the occurrence of international terrorism over a 228-month period from 1968 to 1986 using data drawn from ITERATE 2 and 3 and the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) data sets. Using time-series ARIMA modelling techniques, superpower inv…
Anticipating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Early Warning Approach to Conflict and Instability Analysis
One way to demonstrate progress in a field of scientific inquiry is to show that factors believed to explain some phenomenon can also be used effectively to predict both its occurrence and its nonoccurrence. This study draws on the state strength literature to identify relevant country macrostructural factors that can contribute to different kinds and levels of intensity of conflict and country instabilities. A pattern classification algorithm—fu…
"Creating a "Well Regulated Militia: Policy Responses to Paramilitary Groups in the American States
In a democratic political system responsive to citizen demands govern ments must often balance conflicting interests. The rise of armed right- wing paramilitary groups, and especially the recent growth of citizen militias, have created such a situation in the American states. In particu lar, governments must respond to the threat of armed anti-government groups, while simultaneously attempting to address the "mainstream" con servative issues thes…
Both masters and victims of their times”: Engaging aporetic time in Midnight’s Children
Time in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is characterized by a cacophony of representational forms that the narrator Saleem uses with and against each other, such as cyclical time, timelessness, and revisionary linear historical time. Existing analyses of the novel’s representations of time have generally concluded that one or another of the competing temporal frameworks in the novel is primary and that Rushdie and Saleem ultimately discard o…
Foreign Policy Crises and the Resort to Terrorism: A Time-Series Analysis of Conflict Linkages
This study tests the validity of opposing arguments regarding superpower state sponsorship of international crises by exploring the linkages between the monthly foreign policy crisis behavior of nation-states and the occurrence of international terrorism over a 228-month period from 1968 to 1986 using data drawn from ITERATE 2 and 3 and the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) data sets. Using time-series ARIMA modelling techniques, superpower inv…
"Creating a "Well Regulated Militia: Policy Responses to Paramilitary Groups in the American States
In a democratic political system responsive to citizen demands govern ments must often balance conflicting interests. The rise of armed right- wing paramilitary groups, and especially the recent growth of citizen militias, have created such a situation in the American states. In particu lar, governments must respond to the threat of armed anti-government groups, while simultaneously attempting to address the "mainstream" con servative issues thes…
Anticipating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Early Warning Approach to Conflict and Instability Analysis
One way to demonstrate progress in a field of scientific inquiry is to show that factors believed to explain some phenomenon can also be used effectively to predict both its occurrence and its nonoccurrence. This study draws on the state strength literature to identify relevant country macrostructural factors that can contribute to different kinds and levels of intensity of conflict and country instabilities. A pattern classification algorithm—fu…
Crisis Early Warning and Decision Support: Contemporary Approaches and Thoughts on Future Research
Military planners and other decision makers require advanced early warning of impending crises so they can devise effective mitigation plans, mobilize resources, and coordinate responses with their foreign counterparts. Over the last 40 years, the US government has invested generously in several attempts to build crisis forecasting systems that were analytically defensible and capable of processing and making sense of vast amounts of information …
Both masters and victims of their times”: Engaging aporetic time in Midnight’s Children
Time in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is characterized by a cacophony of representational forms that the narrator Saleem uses with and against each other, such as cyclical time, timelessness, and revisionary linear historical time. Existing analyses of the novel’s representations of time have generally concluded that one or another of the competing temporal frameworks in the novel is primary and that Rushdie and Saleem ultimately discard o…
‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive
The Law of Diminishing Returns: Precarity and Nonreproduction in the Fall
The essay examines the representation of precarity in the BBC two series, The Fall (2013-), starring Gillian Anderson as detective superitendent Stella Gibson and Jamie Dornan as serial killer as Paul Spector. In the series, institutions of social reproduction are reaveled to be sclerotic, examplified not only in the austerity policies of fiscally insolvent national governments but also in the family and the couple, social forms integral to a sys…
On or off task: The negative influence of laptops on neighboring students’ learning depends on how they are used
Accumulation solaire: La théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse
La série télévisée de Syfy The Expanse (2015- ) transpose une forme de développement inégal combiné du cadre terrestre vers le cadre du système solaire, en faisant un enjeu central de la manière concrète dont les hommes vivent dans l’espace. The Expanse envisage un système solaire habité, composé d’un binôme Terre-Lune contrôlé par les Nations Unies, d’une dictature militaire sur Mars, et d’une ceinture d’astéroïdes densément peuplée. Cet article…
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Moments of Capital: World Theory, World Literature
Introduction: Reading Marx
Introduction for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Figuration
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
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