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Dr Cathal McCall is a Senior Research Fellow of the Insitute. His key research interest is the relationship between border reconfiguration and conflict transformation within and beyond the European Union. He is currently a member of an international research consortium that has secured research funding under EU FP7. The project is entitled “EUBORDERSCAPES Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World”. Dr McCall leads the project’s Workpackage Cross-Border Co-operation as Conflict Amelioration. The project began in June 2012 and will run until 2015.

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Recent Publications

Books:

• 2010Ireland and Europe: Europeanisation and Hibernicisation (co-editor with Thomas M. Wilson). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Articles:

• 2011 ‘Culture and the Irish Border: Spaces for Conflict Transformation’, pp. 201-221in Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 46, no. 2.
• 2008 ‘Escaping the Cage of Ethno-National Conflict in Northern Ireland? The Importance of Transnational Networks’ (first author: Liam O’Dowd), pp. 81-99 in Ethnopolitics, vol. 7, no. 1.
• 2008  ‘Hanging Flower Baskets, Blowing in the Wind? Third Sector Groups, Cross-Border Partnerships and the EU Peace Programmes in Ireland’ (second author: Liam O’Dowd), pp. 29-54 in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 14, no. 1.
• 2007 “Hello Stranger’: the Revival of Co-operation between Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland’, pp. 7-21in the Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland, no. 2.

Book Chapters:

• 2012 'De-Bordering and Re-bordering the United Kingdom' in Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Border Studies. London: Blackwell.
• 2012  ‘Good Friday Governance on the Island of Ireland: The Cross-border Dimension’ in Peter Gilles, Harlan Koff, Carmen Maganda, Christian Schulz (eds.), Theorizing Borders Through Analyses of Power Relationships. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
• 2012 ‘The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape’, pp. 154-167 in Marie Mianowski (ed.), Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
• 2011 ‘Building Peace and Crossing Borders: The North/South Dimension’ (with Katy Hayward and Ivo Damkat), pp. 191-208 in Maria Power (ed.), Building Peace in Northern Ireland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• 2007 ‘Creating Border Space in Ireland: an EU approach to Ethno-national Threat and Insecurity’, pp. 61-77 in Warwick Armstrong and James Anderson (eds.), Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement: The Fortress Empire. London: Routledge.
• 2007  ‘Reconfiguring the Border’, pp. 43-65 in Katy Hayward and Muiris MacCarthaigh (eds.), Recycling the State: The Politics of Adaptation in Contemporary Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
• 2007 ‘The Voluntary Sector: New Patterns of Co-operation’ (with Liam O’Dowd) pp. 125-152 in John Coakley and Liam O’Dowd (eds.), Crossing the Border: New Relationships Between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
• 2007 ‘Co-operation in the Public, Private and Civil Society Sectors’ (with Liam O’Dowd and Ivo Damkat), pp. 263-289 in John Coakley and Liam O’Dowd (eds.), Crossing the Border: New Relationships Between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.

Other Research Contribututions

Film Documentary:

• The Border (Writer, Presenter, Co-producer); First broadcast on RTÉ 1, 4^th September 2007

PhD supervision:

First supervisor for PhD research on:

• ‘Fortress Europe’ and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (awarded, 2011); borders and conflict in North Belfast (awarded, 2011);
• Evaluating EU Peace programmes (ongoing); 
• Post-conflict cross-border co-operation in Ireland (awarded, 2012);
• The Chinese/Loyalist/Republican interfaces of South Belfast;
• Immigration policy in the Netherlands (awarded, 2010).

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