EU, Irish Defence Forces and Contemporary Security

Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University, USA. Matthew G. O’Neill is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher in Political Science at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Mark Williams is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

• Introduction.- Theme One: Defence Forces Capabilities & The Threat Environment. Chapter 1. Ensuring the Jungle Doesn’t Grow Back: The Obligations Inherent to Irish Defence Policy.- Chapter 2. The GOC’s Perspective.- Chapter 3. A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual and Communications Culture of the Irish Defence Forces at a time of Emergent/Imminent Domestic and International Threats.- chapter 4. The Irish Naval Service: The Burden of the Minimalist Approach.- Chapter 5. Small Navies: Lessons for the Irish Naval Service.- Theme Two: The Reserve Defence Forces. Chapter 6.Revitalizing the Irish Army Reserve post-Commission on the Defence Forces: Moving from the Single Force Concept to a Total Force Policy.- Chapter 7. The Army Reserves – The Force-multiplier for Irish Defence.- Chapter 8. Ireland’s Naval Service Reserve – An Analysis of Current Capabilities and Role for the Future.- Theme Three: Peacekeeping Operations. Chapter 9. Decolonisation, Conflict, and Independence: The Impact of History on Ireland’s Approach to Peacekeeping.- Chapter 10. Ireland’s Largest Peacekeeping Mission – The Irish Defence Forces in UNIFIL.- Chapter 11. Peacekeeping in the Digital Age: Future Threats and Capability Requirements.- Theme Four: Cyber Security in the Digital Age. Chapter 12. Irish Cyber Security.- Chapter 13. Cyber resilience for Europe’s armed forces in the 21st Century – a German Perspective.- Chapter 14. The Irish Defence Forces in the Drone Age.- Theme Five: Defence Forces Institutional Innovation and Civil-Military Relations. Chapter 15. The Defence Forces Research Technology Initiative.- Chapter 16. Shared Norms but Policy Incoherence: Analysing the Irish Defence Forces’ Marketplace Aspirations.- Chapter 17. Representation, Negotiation, and Frustration. What path lies ahead for civil-military industrial relations.- Theme Six: The Principle of Irish Neutrality. Chapter 18. Ireland, NATO and the “Return of Geopolitics” in Europe.- Chapter 19. Irish Military Neutrality 1924-1945: A Historical Perspective for Modern Consideration.- Chapter 20. Generating More Heat Than Light? The Debate over Ireland’s Neutrality and the “European Army”.- Chapter 21. Conclusion.