2009 Press Releases

Eminent Historian to deliver lecture at UCC
06.03.2009

The MA in Politics Visiting Speaker Series will host a lecture by award-winning writer and Professor of Politics Richard English titled "Terrorism: How to Respond." The lecture will take place on Wednesday next, March 11th at 5pm in Civil Engineering G10.
The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this lecture will argue that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international terrorism. Recent policies have ignored the lessons of the past. Terrorism: How to Respond seeks to remedy this lack of vision by looking at the long history of terrorism and assessing why such violence emerges, how it is sustained, and - most crucially of all - how and why it ends.

Professor Richard English is an historian who has long studied Irish terrorism and politics, and his forthcoming book with Oxford University Press argues that we cannot adequately respond to the practical challenge of terrorist violence around the world unless we are more honest about the precise nature of the phenomenon, and about explaining its true and complex causes. Drawing on first-hand research into terrorist organizations, Richard English offers an authoritative and accessible analysis of arguably the most urgent political problem of the twenty-first century - and how we can successfully respond to it.

Richard English was born in 1963 in Belfast, where he is Professor of Politics at Queen's University. His books include Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (which won the 2003 UK Political Studies Association Politics Book of the Year Award) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (which won the 2007 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, and the 2007 Political Studies Association of Ireland Book Prize). He is a frequent media commentator on Irish politics and history and on terrorism, including work for the BBC, ITN, SKY NEWS, RTE, the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek and the Financial Times. The book upon which this lecture is based, Terrorism: How to Respond, will be published in July 2009 by Oxford University Press.



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