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John Bradley, PhD (Trinity College Dublin) is a Research Professor and a Senior Economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin. He has published extensively on the economics of the island of Ireland, with a particular focus on North-South interactions. His 1996 report, An Island Economy: Exploring Long Term Consequences of Peace and Reconciliation in the Island of Ireland, was prepared for the Forum on Peace and Reconciliation. He has also researched the economic implications of structural funds and the single market within the EU periphery (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and East Germany). He currently directs an EU ACE-Phare project on the study of the transition of a range of Central and Eastern European Economies to EU membership. He is the author and co-author of a number of articles and reports on international trade, labour markets, the EU and comparative economic development.
William Crotty, PhD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Public Life, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. Research interests include political representation, political parties, democratisation, electoral change and comparative election procedures and policy. He is the author and editor of a number of books, has served as president of several professional organisations and was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the political parties' section of the American Political Science Association and the Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the Policy Studies Association. He is the co-editor and co-author with David Schmitt of Ireland and the Politics of Change.
Richard B. Finnegan is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of Irish Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. He holds his BA from Stonehill College and his MA from Boston College. His PhD is from Florida State University and he also holds an EdM from Harvard University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of Ireland: The Challenge of Conflict and Change (Westview Press, 1983); Aspirations and Realities: A Documentary History of Economic Development Policy in Ireland since 1922 (with James L. Wiles; Greenwood Press, 1993); A Guide to Irish Government Publications: 19721992 (with James L. Wiles; Irish Academic Press, 1995); Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics (with Edward McCarron; Westview Press, 2000); and Irish Women and Public Policy: A Documentary History since 1922 (with James L. Wiles; Irish Academic Press, forthcoming, 2002).
John Fitz Gerald is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin. He has published extensively on the macro-economics of the Irish economy. His work in recent years has focused on the impact on Ireland of EU integration, economic and monetary union (EMU) and of the EU Structural Funds.
Adrian Guelke, PhD (London School of Economics). Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queens University Belfast. Formerly Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg. Research interests include international relations and the politics of deeply divided societies (particularly South Africa and Northern Ireland). He edited The South African Journal of International Affairs between 1995 and 1998. Books include Northern Ireland: The International Perspective (Gill and Macmillan, 1988); New Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict (editor; Avebury, 1994); The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System (LB. Tauris, 1995); The Police, Public Order and the State (with John Brewer, Ian Hume, Edward Moxon-Browne and Rick Wolford; Macmillan, 2nd edition 1996); and South Africa in Transition: The Misunderstood Miracle (I.B. Tauris, 1999). He has had articles published in a wide range of journals, including International Affairs, Comparative Politics, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Niamh Hardiman, Politics Department, University College Dublin; BA, MA (National University of Ireland), DPhil (Oxford). Research interests include Irish politics, political attitudes and political culture, comparative political economy, including issues such as states and markets, welfare states, labour movements and wage regulation. She is the author of Pay, Politics and Economic Performance (Clarendon Press, 1988), and various journal articles and contributions to edited volumes. She is currently working on a book about the political economy of the Irish state.
Brigid Laffan, BCS (Limerick), PhD (Dublin), Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, Department of Politics and Director, Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin. Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Brugge; Director, European Studies MA; Council Member, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Dublin; adviser in EU enlargement to Foreign Affairs Committee, Oireachtas. Research interests include governance in the EU, constitution building in the EU, finances and the EU, and Ireland and European integration. Select publications include
