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Publications: Dr Paul Dixon

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Dixon P ( 2024 ) . ‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq . British Politics vol. 19 , ( 1 ) 84 - 105 .
Dixon P ( 2023 ) . Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and Ending the Ukraine War . Peace Review vol. 35 , ( 3 ) 448 - 459 .
Dixon P ( 2023 ) . Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism in Wonderland and the Northern Ireland Peace Process . Studies in Conflict and Terrorism vol. ahead-of-print , ( ahead-of-print ) 1 - 24 .
Dixon P ( 2022 ) . “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”: New Cosmopolitanism and Pacifist Warriors . New Political Science vol. 44 , ( 3 ) 377 - 395 .
Dixon P ( 2021 ) . Bringing politics back in: interpretations of the peace process and the security challenge in Northern Ireland . Small Wars and Insurgencies vol. 32 , ( 4-5 ) 812 - 836 .
Dixon P ( 2020 ) . Power‐Sharing in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism and Sectarian Authoritarianism . Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism vol. 20 , ( 2 ) 117 - 127 .
Dixon P ( 2020 ) . ‘Lions led by donkeys’? Britain’s war in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 . Capital & Class vol. 45 , ( 4 ) 579 - 599 .
Dixon P ( 2019 ) . Frock Coats against Brass Hats? Politicians, the Military and the War in Afghanistan 2001–2014 . Parliamentary Affairs vol. 73 , ( 3 ) 651 - 691 .
Dixon P ( 2019 ) . Beyond Sectarianism in the Middle East? . Beyond Sunni and Shia , Oxford University Press (OUP)
Dixon P ( 2019 ) . Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process, In Defence of Politics . Springer Nature
Dixon P ( 2017 ) . ‘Endless wars of altruism’? Human rights, humanitarianism and the Syrian war . The International Journal of Human Rights vol. 23 , ( 5 ) 819 - 842 .
Dixon P ( 2017 ) . The 'real' and 'dirty' politics of the Northern Ireland peace process: A constructivist realist critique of idealism and conservative realism . Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland ,
Dixon P ( 2016 ) . 'A real stirring in the nation': Military families, British public opinion and withdrawal from Northern Ireland . The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, engagements, legacies and memories ,
Dixon P ( 2016 ) . Internationalization and Unionist Isolation: a Response to Feargal Cochrane . Political Studies vol. 43 , ( 3 ) 497 - 505 .
Dixon P ( 2016 ) . Political Skills or Lying and Manipulation? The Choreography of the Northern Ireland Peace Process . Political Studies vol. 50 , ( 4 ) 725 - 741 .
Dixon P ( 2015 ) . The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process . The RUSI Journal vol. 160 , ( 4 ) 18 - 23 .
Dixon P ( 2015 ) . War, counterinsurgency and the power of the generals . Critical Studies on Terrorism vol. 8 , ( 2 ) 321 - 327 .
Jarvis L ( 2014 ) . Critical Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism . Taylor & Francis
Dixon P, O’Kane E ( 2014 ) . Northern Ireland Since 1969 . Taylor & Francis
Dixon P ( 2014 ) . How terrorism ends negotiating the end of the IRA’s ‘armed struggle’ . Critical Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism ,
Dixon P ( 2013 ) . Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process on the World Stage . Political Science Quarterly vol. 121 , ( 1 ) 61 - 91 .
Dixon P ( 2013 ) . An honourable deception? The Labour government, the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland peace process . British Politics vol. 8 , ( 2 ) 108 - 137 .
Dixon P ( 2013 ) . The victory and defeat of the IRA?: Neoconservative interpretations of the Northern Ireland peace process . Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . ‘There is Nothing Politically Right that is Morally Wrong’? Beyond Realism and Idealism in the Northern Ireland Peace Process . Irish Political Studies vol. 29 , ( 2 ) 236 - 257 .
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . Was the IRA Defeated? Neo-Conservative Propaganda as History . The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History vol. 40 , ( 2 ) 303 - 320 .
DIXON P ( 2012 ) . Bew and Frampton: Recognisably Neoconservative . The Political Quarterly vol. 83 , ( 2 ) 283 - 286 .
DIXON P ( 2012 ) . In Defence of Politics: Interpreting the Peace Process and the Future of Northern Ireland . The Political Quarterly vol. 83 , ( 2 ) 265 - 276 .
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . Beyond hearts and minds: Perspectives on counterinsurgency . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . Bringing it all back home: The militarisation of Britain and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . Britain’s Vietnam syndrome: Perspectives on British counterinsurgency, the media and public opinion . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . Conclusion: The military and British democracy . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . The British approach to counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan .
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . The British approach to counterinsurgency: ‘Hearts and minds’ from Malaya to Afghanistan? . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2012 ) . ‘Hearts and minds’: British counterinsurgency strategy in Northern Ireland . The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan ,
Dixon P ( 2011 ) . A Rejoinder to a Reply . Nations and Nationalism vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 129 - 131 .
DIXON P ( 2011 ) . The politics of conflict: a constructivist critique of consociational and civil society theories* . Nations and Nationalism vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 98 - 121 .
Dixon P ( 2011 ) . Guns First, Talks Later: Neoconservatives and the Northern Ireland Peace Process . The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History vol. 39 , ( 4 ) 649 - 676 .
Dixon P ( 2011 ) . Is Consociational Theory the Answer to Global Conflict? From the Netherlands to Northern Ireland and Iraq . Political Studies Review vol. 9 , ( 3 ) 309 - 322 .
Dixon P ( 2010 ) . Understanding Unionism: Ideology and Politics . Studies in Conflict and Terrorism vol. 23 , ( 3 ) 205 - 213 .
Dixon P ( 2010 ) . ‘Rosy Catholics’ and ‘Dour Prods’: President Clinton and the Northern Ireland peace process . International Politics vol. 47 , ( 2 ) 210 - 228 .
Dixon P ( 2009 ) . ‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Northern Ireland . Journal of Strategic Studies vol. 32 , ( 3 ) 445 - 474 .
Ganiel G, Dixon P ( 2008 ) . Religion, Pragmatic Fundamentalism and the Transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict . Journal of Peace Research vol. 45 , ( 3 ) 419 - 436 .
Dixon P ( 2007 ) . Consociationalism and the Northern Ireland peace process: The glass half full or half empty? . Nationalism and Ethnic Politics vol. 3 , ( 3 ) 20 - 36 .
Dixon P ( 2007 ) . Kieran McEvoy, Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland: Resistance, Management and Release. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001 . Human Rights Review vol. 8 , ( 4 ) 433 - 435 .
Dixon P ( 2006 ) . Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Valuing the Union? . Irish Political Studies vol. 21 , ( 2 ) 113 - 136 .
DIXON P ( 2005 ) . Why the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland Is Not Consociational . The Political Quarterly vol. 76 , ( 3 ) 357 - 367 .
Dixon P ( 2004 ) . ‘PEACE WITHIN THE REALMS OF THE POSSIBLE’? DAVID TRIMBLE, UNIONIST IDEOLOGY AND THEATRICAL POLITICS . Terrorism and Political Violence vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 462 - 482 .
DIXON P ( 2000 ) . Britain's ‘Vietnam syndrome’? Public opinion and British military intervention from Palestine to Yugoslavia . Review of International Studies vol. 26 , ( 1 ) 99 - 121 .
Dixon P ( 1997 ) . Paths to peace in Northern Ireland (II): The peace processes 1973–74 and 1994–96 . Democratization vol. 4 , ( 3 ) 1 - 25 .
Dixon P ( 1997 ) . Paths to peace in Northern Ireland (I): Civil society and consociational approaches . Democratization vol. 4 , ( 2 ) 1 - 27 .
Dixon P ( 1996 ) . Explaining antagonism: The politics of McGarry and O'Leary . Irish Political Studies vol. 11 , ( 1 ) 155 - 159 .
Dixon P ( 1996 ) . The politics of antagonism: Explaining McGarry and O'Leary . Irish Political Studies vol. 11 , ( 1 ) 130 - 141 .
Dixon P ( 1995 ) . ‘A House divided cannot stand’: Britain, Bipartisanship and Northern Ireland . Contemporary Record vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 147 - 187 .
Dixon P ( 1994 ) . “The usual english doubletalk”: The British political parties and the Ulster Unionists 1974–94 . Irish Political Studies vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 25 - 40 .
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