Research at Kingston University

Article

Dixon, Paul (2012) Was the IRA defeated? Neo-Conservative propaganda as history. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(2), pp. 303-320. ISSN (print) 0308-6534

Dixon, Paul (2012) Bew and Frampton: recognisably neoconservative. Political Quarterly, 83(2), pp. 283-286. ISSN (print) 0032-3179

Dixon, Paul (2012) In defence of politics: interpreting the peace process and the future of Northern Ireland. Political Quarterly, 83(2), pp. 265-276. ISSN (print) 0032-3179

Dixon, Paul (2012) The politics of conflict: a constructivist critique of consociational and civil society theories. Nations And Nationalism, 18(1), pp. 98-121. ISSN (print) 1354-5078

Dixon, Paul (2011) Guns first, talks later: Neoconservatives and the Northern Ireland peace process. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39(4), pp. 649-676. ISSN (print) 0308-6534

Dixon, Paul (2011) Is consociational theory the answer to global conflict? From the Netherlands to Northern Ireland and Iraq. Political Studies Review, 9(3), pp. 309-322. ISSN (print) 1478-9299

Dixon, Paul (2011) A rejoinder to a reply. Nations and Nationalism, 18(1), pp. 129-131. ISSN (print) 1354-5078

Dixon, Paul (2010) 'Rosy Catholics' and 'Dour Prods': President Clinton and the Northern Ireland peace process. International Politics, 47(2), pp. 210-228. ISSN (print) 1384-5748

Dixon, Paul (2010) Book Review of: The Northern Ireland question: the peace process and the Belfast agreement edited by Brian Barton & Patrick J. Roche. Irish Political Studies, 25(1), pp. 150-152. ISSN (print) 0790-7184

Dixon, Paul (2009) ‘Hearts and Minds’? British counter-insurgency strategy in Northern Ireland. Journal of Strategic Studies, 32(3), pp. 445-474. ISSN (print) 0140-2390

Dixon, Paul (2009) 'Hearts and minds’? British counter-insurgency from Malaya to Iraq. Journal of Strategic Studies, 32(3), pp. 353-381. ISSN (print) 0140-2390

Dixon, Paul (2009) Book review of: Dimensions of counter-insurgency: applying experience to practice by Tim Benbow and Rod Thornton. International Affairs, 85(3), pp. 627-628. ISSN (print) 0020-5850

Ganiel, Gladys and Dixon, Paul (2008) Religion, pragmatic fundamentalism and the transformation of the Northern Ireland conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 45(3), pp. 419-436. ISSN (print) 0022-3433

Dixon, Paul (2007) Book review of: 'Political leadership and the northern Ireland peace process: Role, capacity and effect' by Cathy Gormley-Heenan. West European Politics, 30(5), pp. 1227-1228. ISSN (print) 0140-2382

Dixon, Paul (2006) Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: valuing the union? Irish Political Studies, 21(2), pp. 113-136. ISSN (print) 0790-7184

Dixon, Paul (2006) Performing the Northern Ireland peace process on the world stage. Political Science Quarterly, 121(1), pp. 61-91. ISSN (print) 0032-3195

Dixon, Paul (2005) Why the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland is not consociational. Political Quarterly, 76(3), pp. 357-367. ISSN (print) 0032-3179

Dixon, Paul (2004) 'Peace within the realms of the possible'? David Trimble, unionist ideology and theatrical politics. Terrorism and Political Violence, 16(3), pp. 462-482. ISSN (print) 0954-6553

Dixon, Paul (2003) Victory by spin? Britain, the US and the propaganda War over Kosovo. Civil Wars, 6(4), pp. 83-106. ISSN (print) 1369-8249

Dixon, Paul (2002) Political skills or lying and manipulation? the choreography of the Northern Ireland peace process. Political Studies, 50(4), pp. 725-741. ISSN (print) 0032-3217

Dixon, Paul (2002) L'IRA, victoire, defaite ou match nul? (The IRA: Win, lose or draw?). La Revue Nouvelle(5), pp. 64-71. ISSN (print) 0035-3809

Dixon, Paul (2002) Northern Ireland and the international dimension: the end of the Cold War, the USA and European integration. Irish Studies in International Affairs, 13(13), pp. 105-120. ISSN (print) 0332-1460

Dixon, Paul (2001) British policy towards Northern Ireland 1969-2000: continuity, tactical adjustment and consistent 'inconsistencies'. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 3(3), pp. 340-368. ISSN (print) 1369-1481

Dixon, Paul (2000) Britain's 'Vietnam syndrome'? Public opinion and British military intervention from Palestine to Yugoslavia. Review of International Studies, 26(1), pp. 99-121. ISSN (print) 0260-2105

Book

Dixon, Paul (2013) The Northern Ireland peace process: choreography and theatrical politics. London, U.K. : Routledge. 240p. (Routledge Advances in European Politics) ISBN 9780415348607 (In Press)

Dixon, Paul, ed. (2012) The British approach to counterinsurgency: from Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan. Houndmills, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 336p. ISBN 9780230293472

Dixon, Paul and O'Kane, Eamonn (2011) Northern Ireland since 1969. Harlow, U.K. : Longman. 224p. (Seminar Studies In History) ISBN 9781405801355

Dixon, Paul (2008) Northern Ireland: the politics of war and peace. 2nd ed. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 334p. ISBN 9780230507791

Book Section

Dixon, Paul (2008) 'A Tragedy Beyond Words': interpretations of British government policy and the Northern Ireland peace process. In: Edwards, Aaron and Bloomer, Stephen, (eds.) Transforming the peace process in Northern Ireland: from terrorism to democratic politics. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Academic Press. pp. 175-194. ISBN 0716529556

Dixon, Paul (2006) Rethinking the international and Northern Ireland: a critique. In: Cox, Michael , Guelke, Adrian and Stephen, Fiona, (eds.) A farewell to arms?: Beyond the Good Friday agreement. 2nd ed. Manchester : Manchester University Press. pp. 409-426. ISBN 0719071151

Dixon, Paul (2004) Contemporary unionism and the tactics of resistance. In: Bric, Maurice J. and Coakley, John, (eds.) From political violence to negotiated settlement: the winding path to peace in twentieth-century Ireland. Dublin : University College Dublin Press. pp. 133-153. (Perspectives in British-Irish studies) ISBN 1900621843

Dixon, Paul (2001) Partition and the failure of majoritarianism. In: Wilson, Robin, (ed.) Agreeing to disagree?: a guide to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Stationery Office. ISBN 0114972575

Conference or Workshop Item

Dixon, Paul (2003) The theatricality of politics: understanding New Labour. In: 'Democracy and Diversity': the 53rd annual conference of the Political Studies Association ; 15-17 Apr 2003, Leicester, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Dixon, Paul (2001) Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Democratic Unionist Party. In: Political Studies Association of Ireland conference; November 2001, Galway, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Monograph

Dixon, Paul (2007) Theatrical politics and the choreography of the Northern Ireland peace process. (Working Paper) Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights and Conflict, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University. 39 p.

Dixon, Paul (2002) Contemporary unionism and the tactics of resistance. (Working Paper) Dublin, Ireland : Institute for British-Irish Studies. 20 p. (Working Papers in British-Irish Studies, no. 19)