Michelle B. Cowley-Cunningham, Alexis Carey, Elaine Rogers
{"title":"The Climate Crisis, Climate Anxiety and Children’s Rights: A Psychological Perspective on Human Health and Security","authors":"Michelle B. Cowley-Cunningham, Alexis Carey, Elaine Rogers","doi":"10.1353/isia.0.a904850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.0.a904850","url":null,"abstract":"The climate crisis affects children’s well-being and threatens future generations’ enjoyment of the right to the highest standard of health and security. This paper discusses a submission by the PSI Special Interest Group in Human Rights and Psychology to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. As health profession stakeholders we highlight how environmental degradation and children’s awareness of climate change present an important linkage to children’s mental health. We provide a psychological health account of climate anxiety and its effects on children, and a psychological perspective on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child regarding health and participation. We detail how interventions mindful of children’s educational and participatory capacity offer the potential to moderate effects of climate anxiety. We discuss limitations of the term ‘climate anxiety’ for describing the experience of children from the Global South, preferring a narrative of physical and mental health parity.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49353515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic Opportunism: Ireland and the Czechoslovak Crisis 1938–39","authors":"E. Stewart","doi":"10.1353/isia.0.a906621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.0.a906621","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia was the next phase of Nazi Germany’s expansion in 1938. When it seemed likely that the region would indeed be incorporated into Germany’s borders, based on a mixed historic and ethno-cultural logic, nations across Europe with unresolved border questions of their own took notice—Ireland among them. This article will examine the extent to which a fervent desire to undo the country’s partition influenced Irish foreign policy at a time when international tensions over the Sudetenland were brewing into a potential European conflict. The contradictory nature of Irish foreign policy at the time will be illustrated, and Ireland’s navigation of one of interwar Europe’s most dynamic crises will in turn be re-assessed.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46892506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-Pandemic War Narratives: Case studies of Quo Vadis Aida? (2020), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022)","authors":"P. Brereton","doi":"10.1353/isia.0.a905113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.0.a905113","url":null,"abstract":"War tends to polarise national and global conflicts as encapsulated by the phrase, ‘you are either with us or against us’. There is further danger of knee jerk reactions at such times, including the present, towards unconditionally funding long-term military security hardware and dedicating scarce resources that are badly needed for more benevolent projects, including equitable redistribution of resources, not to mention the challenge to move away from fossil fuels in our climate crisis. These tensions are evident on recognising European dependence on Russian oil and gas, which unfortunately is helping to fund the ongoing Ukrainian war. This paper will explore how a sample of more contemporary wars and national conflicts have been dramatised on film since the pandemic. Focusing specifically on three contrasting approaches to the tragedy of war and its effects on citizens and soldiers: from an insider’s personal response to the massacre in the Balkans during the 1990s in Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), to the reworked conventional World War One classic All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), before finally coming full circle with the big budget Hollywood celebration of aerial war heroics in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Sample textual and contextual analysis will be used to explore how such war narratives have become repurposed, both from an insider soldier’s perspective and also through a rejuvenated cinematic war framework, as contemporary audiences strive to cope with ever-increasing crises and conflicts facing the planet, having recently endured a global pandemic.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Task of Envisioning Security for the Anthropocene","authors":"John Morrissey","doi":"10.1353/isia.0.a904027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.0.a904027","url":null,"abstract":"Our Anthropocene age is defined by a wide array of anthropogenic pressures on planet Earth, which have produced multiple human and environmental insecurities. From climate change to population displacements, from ecosystem degradation to global pandemics, we are faced with unprecedented human and environmental emergencies. Safeguarding the future hinges on generating a wider understanding of ‘security’ that sees the need for holistic strategy, global solidarity and multilateral cooperation. We need a security imaginary transformed by critical and responsible thinking on economic production and planetary precarity, and we require such a vision to manifest in new governmentalities that set us on the right path towards a shared future. This paper reflects on the challenge of establishing holistic understandings of security which can be drawn upon more effectively to respond to the intersecting crises unfolding on the planet. In seeking to reframe global security strategy, the paper underscores an interlinked sense of human-environmental security which extends the UN’s human security concept to address the overlapping precarities of our human and non-human worlds. It considers in particular the role of legal and regulatory mechanisms in curbing the ecological excesses of late modern capitalism; and in seeking to transcend narrow statist formulations of security, the paper illuminates our global interconnections, which require us to renew and support networks of international solidarity and multilateral cooperation.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43958657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Missing Recognition: How Ireland And Switzerland Established Diplomatic Relations","authors":"Jonas Hirschi","doi":"10.1353/isia.0.a906620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.0.a906620","url":null,"abstract":"Ireland carried out a clandestine diplomacy from 1917 onwards, pursuing international recognition, which made Switzerland, with its central location in Europe and later as the seat of the League of Nations, one of the main targets. But it was not until the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that a de facto recognition by Switzerland followed, although the Swiss government never officially recognised Ireland. Until the establishment of diplomatic missions in 1939/40, diplomatic relations were handled by the Irish representation to the League of Nations and the Swiss consulate general in Dublin as quasi-diplomatic missions.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43982586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Future of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Arts: Research and Policy Findings from Ireland and Northern Ireland","authors":"S. Hadley, Sophia Woodley","doi":"10.1353/isia.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article discusses the current context and activity—and potential future(s)—of cross-border cooperation in the subsidised arts sectors in Ireland and Northern Ireland. By investigating the interconnections between the arts sectors and their social, economic and political context, the article highlights issues that directly and indirectly influence the capacity and willingness of artists, funders and policymakers to engage in cooperation. These issues include the absence of a policy framework; North–South ambivalence; variances around cultural value and evaluation; the need for structures, mechanisms and platforms for exchange; a lack of robust and relevant data; and questions around both the mobility and visibility of artists and audiences. While a lack of focus on civic development remains questionable, in a context of significant resource constraints and disparities, closer cooperation could deliver much-needed economies of scale, value for money, and opportunities for knowledge transfer and skills sharing.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"34 1","pages":"48 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49098640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education Across the Island of Ireland: Examining Educational Outcomes, Earnings and Intergenerational Mobility","authors":"A. Devlin, S. McGuinness, A. Bergin, E. Smyth","doi":"10.1353/isia.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper builds on a study of educational differences across Ireland and Northern Ireland to explore the relationship between educational attainment, social background and wages. We find evidence of substantial wage premia across all qualification levels in Ireland relative to Northern Ireland, a pattern that is widespread, and not merely driven by higher returns to professional occupations or FDI employment. The mean wage gap was 27% in 2014 in favour of Ireland, and approximately 25% of this difference can be explained by lower levels of educational attainment in Northern Ireland. We find that levels of educational attainment (early school leaving) are substantially lower (higher) in Northern Ireland relative to Ireland. There is also evidence of differences in how the education level of parents affects offspring's attainment. We conclude that academic selection in Northern Ireland is likely to contribute to limiting the extent to which the educational system facilitates intergenerational educational mobility.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"34 1","pages":"30 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47554625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the Tapestry: National and International Human Rights Frameworks in Northern Ireland and Ireland","authors":"Kathryn McNeilly, Aoife O’Donoghue","doi":"10.1353/isia.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Northern Ireland and Ireland possess interlinked human rights frameworks that create a complex tapestry. Brexit has shown the scope and depth of these human rights provisions and orders but also the difficulties associated with disentangling a single thread. The intertwined provisions that operate across the two jurisdictions, within the UK, and at regional and international levels more generally are multifaceted, developing over a considerable period and often in an uneven manner. Issues as regards the coverage and enforcement of human rights across the jurisdictions and their relationships with regional and global institutions, as well as the various human rights policies that remain in suspension or unfinished, may be reflected on. This paper considers issues of convergence and divergence in this legal area and whether complexity serves the purpose of comprehensive rights coverage or whether such density lends itself to unravelling.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"34 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ireland's Foreign Relations in 2021","authors":"Kenneth McDonagh","doi":"10.3318/isia.2021.32.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/isia.2021.32.15","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This review examines Ireland's foreign relations in 2021. As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to complicate economic recovery and the pace of the vaccine rollout caused frustration, 2021 saw Ireland's relations with the UK in particular severely tested. Brexit and its aftermath was a significant challenge to Anglo-Irish relations and the administration of Boris Johnson proved a difficult partner in Ireland's trilateral relationship between Dublin, London and Brussels. The inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as president of the United States came under the cloud of the January 6th violence at the Capitol, and what could have been seen as a return to normalcy instead highlighted how fragile democracy could be. The review outlines how Ireland navigated this difficult path in 2021, including its year as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It also notes a number of significant deaths in the year, both in Ireland and abroad.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"33 1","pages":"221 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47561532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victims’ Rights on the Island of Ireland","authors":"Anurag Deb","doi":"10.1353/isia.2023.a909440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2023.a909440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Victims of crime have historically suffered from obscurity: relegated to serving the criminal justice system rather than having that system serve their needs. This started to change on the island of Ireland in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and continued apace under the aegis of the EU. Following the UK’s exit from the EU (Brexit), new opportunities and challenges have emerged in this field. This paper, part of the ARINS project, charts the emergence of victims of crime as a key focus of the criminal justice systems on the island of Ireland, critically explores the protections afforded to them within these systems, and outlines some emerging issues following Brexit. It thus explores a comparatively under-discussed area in this context.","PeriodicalId":39181,"journal":{"name":"Irish Studies in International Affairs","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136206971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}