Law & Government

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin. .
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Frederik Coene. 2013. Go West: Georgia¿s European identity and its role in domestic politics and foreign policy objectives,. Nationalities Papers, 41, 3
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin. 2012. `Ireland¿s Chairmanship of the OSCE¿. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 33,, pp1-21.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin. 2012. The Dynamics of Electoral Politics in Abkhazia. Communist And Post-communist Studies, 45, 1-2, pp165-174.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese. 2011. `The colour revolution virus and authoritarian antidotes: political protest and regime counter attacks in post communist spaces¿. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal Of Post-soviet Democratization, 19, 3, pp111-132.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin. 2011. Social and political perceptions of the Borat phenomenon in Kazakhstan: evidence from a case study of university students. Studies Of Transition States And Societies, 3, 3, pp51-63.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2010. `Slightly Constitutional¿ Politics: Fianna Fáil¿s tortuous entry to the Irish Parliament, 1926-27'. Parliamentary History, 29, 3
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha and Abel Polese. 2010. 'Rocking the Vote': New forms of youth organisations in post communist spaces. Journal Of Youth Studies, 13, 5, pp615-630.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2009. 'Was Sinn Féin Dying? A quantitative post mortem of the party's decline and the emergence of Fianna Fáil'. Irish Political Studies, 24, 3, pp385-398.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2009. 'Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan'. Journal Of Communist Studies And Transition Politics, 25, 2&3, pp199-226.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha and Abel Polese. 2008. `American Boots and Russian Vodka: The importance of external factors in colour revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan¿. Totalitarismus Und Demokratie, 5, 1, pp87-113.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2005. Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan. Electoral Studies (usa), 24, 4, pp762-769.

Selected Books

• DR DONNACHA Ó BEACHÁIN.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Mark O'Brien. Political Communication in Ireland: Journalism, Politics and the Public , Liverpool University Press, 2014.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin. The Irish Government and the Northern Ireland Question since 1922: The Politics of Partition, Manchester University Press, 2013.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Vera Sheridan and Sabina Stan (eds). Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe After EU Membership, Routledge, 2012.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin. The Destiny of the Soldiers: Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, Gill and Macmillan, 2010.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese (eds.). The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics: Success and Failures, Routledge, 2010.

Selected Chapters

• Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin. .
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Frederik Coene. 2013. Georgia¿s European identity and its role in domestic politics and foreign policy .
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese. 2012. Rocking the vote: new forms of youth organisations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. , pp108-120.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2011. `Faking It: Neo-Soviet Electoral Politics in Central Asia¿,. Voting for Hitler and Stalin: Elections Under 20th-century Dictatorships
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2010. Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Stephen White and David Lane (eds.) Rethinking the 'Coloured Revolutions', pp199-228.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha and Abel Polese. 2009. From Roses to Bullets: The rise and decline of post-Soviet colour revolutions. Totalitarianism and Transformation: Central and Eastern Europe between Socialist Legacy and Democratic Transformation (Totalitarismus und Transformation Defizite der Demokratiekonsolidierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa), pp63-100.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2007. The Necessary Lie: Political Parties and Elections in Central Asia. The Commonwealth of Independent States: Form and Substance, pp269-298.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2007. Transformation of Social Status: Ethnic Russians in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries: Critical Approaches, pp111-134.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2005. Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes. A Political Science Reader for Central Asian Students, pp41-54.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2005. Political Culture. A Political Science Reader for Central Asian Students, pp115-126.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2005. Kazakhization and Language Policy in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan [in Russian]. Political Science and State Power in Russia and the Newly Independent States, pp68-84.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha. 2004. Power without Passion: The Deradicalization of European Political Parties. Harrington, Carol, Ayman Salem and Tamara Zurabishvili eds. After Communism: Critical Perspectives on Society and Sociology, pp141-154.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Rob Kevlihan. 2011. State-building, identity and nationalism in Kazakhstan: some preliminary thoughts. Centre for International Studies Working Papers,

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• Donnacha Ó Beachain, The Role of the EU and OSCE in conflict management and resolution in the South Caucasus and Moldova, 17th Association for the Studies of Nationalities World Convention, 19-APR-12 - 22-APR-12, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Rob Kevlihan, Threading a needle? Kazakhstan between civic and ethno-nationalist state-building?, 12th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), 19-SEP-11 - 22-SEP-11, Cambridge University
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese, The Role of Civil Society in Democratic Transformations: What can we learn from ¿Colour Revolutions¿?, European Consortium of Political Science Research (ECPR), 24-AUG-11 - 27-AUG-11, European Consortium of Political Science Research (ECPR), Reykjavik Iceland
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Potemkin Democracies: Elections in Authoritarian Regimes, Democratization and Cultural Diversity: Contestation and Consensus in EU and India, 13-DEC-10 - 15-DEC-10, Centre for Comparative European Union Studies, Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Electoral Politics in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, Conflict as an Instrument in the Internal Political Struggles Secession Crises in the Post-Soviet Area, 02-DEC-10 - 03-DEC-10, Humboldt University, Berlin
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin, EU Mediation in Georgian Conflicts, The Role of the EU in International Peace Mediation, 01-DEC-10 - 01-DEC-10, Dublin City University.
• Donnacha Ó Beacháin, What are the causes of persistent upheavals in Kyrgyzstan since 2005?, ¿Modern Challenges to Security in Central Asia¿, 21-JUN-10 - 25-JUN-10, OSCE, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Dynamics of Domestic Politics in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, ¿After the Melting of Frozen Conflicts: Systemic Transformations and Legitimation of Secessionist Bids¿, 27-MAY-10 - 28-MAY-10, Tartu, Estonia
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Rose-tinted glasses: the impact of the colour revolutions on Western-Caucasus relations, Encounters between the Caucasus and the West: Image and reality, 23-APR-10 - 24-APR-10, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Dynamics of Electoral Politics in Abkhazia, 15th Annual ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) World Convention Nations and States: on the map and in the mind, 15-APR-10 - 17-APR-10, Columbia University, New York
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, , 2009 Jean Monnet Advanced Study Institute - Enlargement and Beyond: The Process of EU and NATO Accession and Its Impact on Europe¿s Security Architecture, 28-JUN-09 - 11-JUL-09, Yalta, Ukraine
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Elections in Post-Communist Central Asian Dictatorships, Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships, 06-MAY-09 - 09-MAY-09, University of Cologne, Germany
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, , 2009 Jean Monnet Advanced Study Institute Winter Institute - Europe¿s Evolving Security Architecture: Integration, Cooperation or Confrontation?, 11-MAR-09 - 16-MAR-09, Donetsk, Ukraine
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Ireland, Week-long series of lectures/seminars conducted with MA program of Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR), 16-JAN-09 - 23-JAN-09, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, `A comparative Analysis of Colour Revolutions in post-Soviet Spaces¿, 8th Annual Aleksanteri Conference on Post-Soviet studies., 08-DEC-08 - 10-DEC-08, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, `External Forces in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts¿, `Caucasus Studies: Migration-Society-Language', 28-NOV-08 - 30-NOV-08, Department of International Migrations and Ethnic Relations,Malmoe University, Sweden.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, `Political party development in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan: The external dimension¿, ¿The International Dimensions of Political Party (System) Development: Assessing Actors, Methods and Effects¿, 13-NOV-08 - 15-NOV-08, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, The Georgia-Russia War and the Caucasus in Transition¿,, Department of European Studies Masters Program, 20-OCT-08 - 20-OCT-08, Yerevan State University, Armenia
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Theoretical approaches to political party systems, Open Society Institute/Higher Education Support Program week-long seminar presentations(Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET), 02-JUN-08 - 07-JUN-08, Dushanbe and Khojand, Tajikistan
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, , Seminars on political science theory conducted for university faculty with Central Asia Research and Training Initiative (CARTI) fellowships (OSI Higher Education Support Program), 19-MAY-08 - 24-MAY-08, Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, 'Comparative Features of `Coloured Revolutions in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan', CEELBAS international workshop on coloured revolutions, 30-APR-08 - 30-APR-08, Kings College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, `Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan¿, Association for the Studies of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention,, 10-APR-08 - 12-APR-08, Columbia University, New York
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, `Cold War in the Caucasus: Georgian-Russian Relations¿, Fourth Eastern Europe Conference organized on the theme of ¿Democracy vs. Authoritarianism in the Post-Communist World¿,, 15-JUL-07 - 18-JUL-07, Warsaw University, Poland.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, , Critical Sociology Network, Caucasus Academic Project Summer School (funded by Higher Educational Support Program, Soros Foundation), 25-JUN-07 - 06-JUL-07, Chakvi, Georgia.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Keynote address, International conference entitled 'Tajikistan¿s role in a globalized world convened to celebrate fifteen years of Tajikistan independence'., 18-MAY-07 - 18-MAY-07, Tajik State University of Law, Business and Politics, Khojand, Tajikistan.
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, 'Russian Foreign Policy in Central Asia' and 'Executive power in Central Asian political systems', Central Asian Resource Centre seminars delivered to faculty of several universities, 16-MAY-07 - 17-MAY-07, Khojand, Tajikistan
• Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, Georgia and Abkhazia: Russia¿s Role, Association for the Studies of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention, 12-APR-07 - 14-APR-07, Columbia University, New York, USA.