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Dr. Etain Tannam

Associate Professor (School of Religion)
      
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Dr. Etain Tannam

Associate Professor (School of Religion)

 tanname@tcd.ie

 


Etain Tannam (BA, Trinity College Dublin, MA University of Essex, PhD, LSE) is Associate Professor International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Her main area of expertise is Irish/Northern cross-border cooperation and British-Irish intergovernmental/diplomatic cooperation, with emphasis on Brexit's impact. She is currently writing a book British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century, 2020, forthcoming, Oxford, Oxford University Press. She has contributed to various reports about Brexit, including the European Parliament, JURIS Committee, the House of Commons, Select Committee for Northern Ireland and the House of Lords Brexit Inquiry. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 4, SKY News and RTE. She is author of International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: A Comparison of the European Union and United Nations (2014, Basingstoke, Palgrave) and Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland (1999, Basingstoke, Palgrave) and has published various book chapters and international journal articles (see below). Her research interests are in the areas of Northern Ireland and British-Irish relations, including the impact of Brexit, international organizations and conflict resolution, United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) politics.
  International Relations/Diplomacy   Political Science
Project Title
 International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: comparison EU and UN
From
2009
To
2011
Summary
This study examines the bureaucratic roles of the European Commission and the UN Secretariat in policy-making processes towards conflict zones.
Funding Agency
TCD Start-Up Fund
Project Title
 The Role of Norms and Narratives in International Crises
From
7/10/2014
To
7/06/2015
Summary
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland
Programme
H2020 -Proposal Preparation Support

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Member of the Political Studies Association (UK)-Political Studies of Ireland Joint Committee to Examine the Research and Academic Implications of Brexit Secretary of the Executive Committee for the Irish Association for European Studies. 2018-
Vice-Chair of the Royal Irish Academy Special Committee on International Affairs 2019-
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International Studies Association (ISA) European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): Standing Group on International Relations, ECPR Standing Group on Regionalism, Political Studies Asssociation of the UK, British International Studies Association, Irish Political Studies Association
Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative April 2008
Northern Ireland after Brexit in, editor(s)Paul Gillespie, Michael Keating and Nicola McEwan , Political Change Across Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, pp175 - 200, [Etain Tannam and Conor R.G. Murray], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, British-Irish Relations in the Twenty-First Century: The Good Friday Agreement, Brexit, and the Totality of Relations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 1 - 228pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, Book, IN_PRESS
The Future of the Union: A Political Science Perspective in, editor(s)Andrew Murphy , The Nation, Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp327 - 340, [Etain Tannam], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam and Conor Kelly, The UK Government and Northern Ireland Policy After Brexit: A Retreat to Unilateralism and Muscular Unionism, Journal of European Public Policy, 30, (11), 2023, p2275 - 2302, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam and Conor Kelly, The Future of Northern Ireland: the Role of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Institutions, The Political Quarterly, 2023, p84 - 97, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, Brexit and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement"s Three Strands., The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland. , 17, (1), 2022, p90 - 101, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, The British-Irish Relationship and the Centrality of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 32, (2), 2021, p341 - 367, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Alan Renwick, Oran Doyle, John Garry, Paul Gillespie, Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Katy Hayward, Robert Hazell, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Brendan O'Leary, Etain Tannam, Alan Whysall , Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland: Final Report, Constitution Unit, University College London, May, 2021, p1 - 259, Report, PUBLISHED
The Future of British-Irish Relations in, editor(s)Federico Fabbrini , The Law & Politics of Brexit VOLUME 2: The Withdrawal Agreement & the Framework of Future EU-UK Relations, Oxford , Oxford University Press, 2020, pp20 , [Etain Tannam], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Northern Ireland and Brexit: Beyond Zero-Sum Consitutional Futures in, editor(s)Paul Gillepsie and Nicola McEwan , Northern Ireland: Consititutional Futures, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, [Etain Tannam and Colin Murray], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Etain Tannam, Briitsh and Irish Identities and the Good Friday Agreement, Exploring Britishness and Irisnhess, Royal Irish Academy, March 30 2023, edited by Irish Association , 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
"The Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and British-Irish Intergovernmental Cooperation in, editor(s)Etain Tannam , Beyond the Good Friday Agreement and in the Midst of Brexit, London , Routledge , 2018, pp20 , [Etain Tannam], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, Brexit, Cross-Border and British-Irish Relations, Annual Conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, March 8-9 2018, 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Dundalk, March 8-9, 2018, Centre for Cross-Border Studies , Invited Talk, APPROVED
Etain Tannam, Brexit and British-Irish Intergovernmental Cooperation, DCU Brexit institute, Inaugural Conference, DCU, January 25 , 2018, DCU Brexit institute, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Etain Tannam, https://theconversation.com/eu-agrees-to-start-phase-two-of-brexit-talks-experts-react-89245 December 15 2017, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/12/05/a-high-risk-game-of-chicken-is-being-played-over-the-irish-border/, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/09/29/is-the-negative-tide-of-british-irish-relations-receding/, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/09/29/is-the-negative-tide-of-british-irish-relations-receding/, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Etain Tannam, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/08/17/uk-position-paper-on-northern-ireland-and-ireland-is-both-conciliatory-and-vague/, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
PhD Scholarship, British Council/Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1990-1993