Dr. John O'Brennan

Dr. John O'Brennan

Welcome to my webpage. I moved to the Department of Sociology as Lecturer in European Politics and Society in September 2007. Previously I lectured in European Politics at the University of Limerick. I have also travelled and worked extensively in Eastern and South Eastern Europe and lectured at the Varna Economics University in Bulgaria. I have also held Fellowships from the IRCHSS (doctoral and post-doctoral) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. My main research focus is on the impact of the European Union on candidate states and neighbouring states and on the different instruments (conditionality, capacity building) which the EU employs in its efforts to effect change in those states. I am also deeply interested in Ireland’s evolving relationship with the EU and the different ways in which the integration process influences domestic political change.  I am also the director of the NUI Maynooth Centre for the Study of Wider Europe (www.widereurope.ie ) which is an inter-disciplinary research centre dedicated to research on and analysis of Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe.

Postgraduate Research Supervision

I am interested in all aspects of the EU enlargement process and particularly the instrument of conditionality and how it is used to achieve specific policy goals. I am currently working on the EU relationship with the states in the Western Balkans and am available to supervise on any aspect of the EU’s presence in the Western Balkans region. I am also interested in Turkey’s accession perspective, the negotiating framework employed by the EU, and the significant range of problems which continue to characterise that process (civil-military relations, human rights issues, Article 301 and freedom of speech and representation, and relations with the Kurdish community amongst others). Finally, I am also interested in Ireland’s experience of European integration and will willingly supervise on aspects of that experience.

Teaching

Within the Department of Sociology I teach the following courses:

• Issues in International Relations (postgraduate, autumn)
• Special Topics – The EU in Global Politics (undergraduate, autumn and spring)
• Introduction to International Relations (undergraduate, spring)
• European Politics and Society (undergraduate, spring)

Research Interests

• EU Enlargement – process and politics; the EU and the Western Balkans; European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); Turkey and the EU.
• Enlargement and Conditionality; Social Constructivism and European Integration;
• Ireland and the European Union; Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty.
• National Parliaments and European Integration: oversight, scrutiny and control of the EU within domestic parliaments.

  

Publications

 

Monographs

O’Brennan, J., 2011 (December). The EU and the Western Balkans: Stabilization and Europeanization through Enlargement? Abingdon: Routledge, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Balkans-Stabilization-Europeanization-Enlargement/dp/0415426081

O’Brennan, J. and Raunio, T., (eds), 2007, National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union: from ‘Victims’ of Integration to Competitive Actors? Abingdon: Routledge,  http://www.routledge.com/9780415399357,

O’Brennan, J., 2006, The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union, Abingdon: Routledge, http://www.amazon.com/Enlargement-Empirical-Conceptual-Institutional-Routledge/dp/0415361265

Refereed Journal Articles

O’ Brennan, J., 2011. ‘Whither the Western Balkans? The European Commission, Civil Society and Enlarging the EU normative community’ (currently under review)

O’ Brennan, J. and Carroll, J., 2011, ‘The Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs: another ‘victim’ of the European Integration Process? (currently under review)

O' Brennan, J., 2009 (2009). 'Ireland says No (again): the 12 June 2008 Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty', Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 62, Number 2, April, pp.258-77.

 O’ Brennan, J. and Gassie, E., (2009), ‘From stabilisation to consolidation: Albanian state capacity and adaptation to European Union rules’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 11, Number 2, April, pp.61-82.

O’ Brennan, J., 2008. ‘The EU in the western Balkans: Statebuilding as Empire? A Rejoinder to Professor David Chandler’, Global Society, Volume 22, Number 4, October, pp.507-18.

O’ Brennan, J., 2008. ‘EU-Deja vu: Ireland's No to Lisbon’, The Federalist Debate, Volume XXI, Number 3, November, pp.5-11.

O' Brennan, J., 2008. 'Ireland and Lisbon: Quo Vadis? CEPS Policy Brief No. 175, Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies Policy Brief, 23 October 2008, http://shop.ceps.eu/BookDetail.php?item_id=1741 Subsequently carried by the International Relations and Security Newtork, ETH Zurich,http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Policy-Briefs/Detail/?lng=en&id=93374

O’Brennan, J., 2006, ‘Bringing Geopolitics back in: Exploring the Security Dimension of the 2004 Eastern Enlargement of the European Union’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 19, I, March, pp.155-169.

O’Brennan, J., 2004. ‘Ireland’s National Forum on Europe: Elite Deliberation meets Popular Participation’, Journal of European Integration, Volume 26, Number 2, June, pp.167-182.

O’ Brennan, J., 2003. ‘Gaining Consent to the European Constitution – Lessons from the Irish Referendum Experience’, The Federalist Debate, Volume XV, No.2, June, pp.6-10.

O’ Brennan, J., 2003. ’Ireland's Return to ‘Normal’ EU Voting Patterns: The 2002 Nice Treaty Referendum’, European Political Science, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring, pp.5-14.

O' Brennan, J., 2002. ‘Enlargement as a Factor in the Irish Referendum on the Nice Treaty’, Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, Volume VII, Number III, September-November 2002, pp.78-94.

O’ Brennan, J., 2002. ‘EU Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Normative Dimension’, Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe, Volume 1, Number 1, pp.163-186.

Book Chapters and Other Academic Articles

O’Brennan, J., 2011. ‘Enlargement, Europeanization and Turkey: theoretical insights from the Enlargement Debate’, in Nas, C. (Ed.), The Europeanization of Turkey, (Aldershot: Ashgate).

O’Brennan, 2011. ‘Executive Power versus parliamentary oversight’: Ireland’s domestic management of EU Decision-making’, in Tonra, B. (ed.), Foreign Policy in the Republic of Ireland, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

O’Brennan, J., 2011. ‘The European Commission, transnational Advocacy and civil society in the Western Balkans’, in Kostovica, D. and Ker-Lindsey, J., London: Routledge.

O’Brennan, J., 2011. ‘The EU Enlargement Process after 1989: Actors, Institutions, and Literature’,  in Wolfgang Mueller (Ed.), Handbook of the 1989 Revolutions, London: Sage.

‘Ireland and Europe in the heat of crisis’, Europe’s World, Feb 2011.

O’ Brennan, J., 2010. ‘Ireland and the EU: reflections on the experience of membership’, in John Hogan (ed.), Ireland: Business and Society, Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, pp.379-97.

‘Ireland’s Existential Crisis: a contrary view’, Open Democracy, 6 December 2010,  http://www.opendemocracy.net/john-obrennan/ireland%E2%80%99s-existential-crisis-contrary-view

‘Ireland’s European Referendum: second take, high stake’, Open Democracy, 30 September 2009, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/ireland-s-european-referendum-second-take-high-stake

O’Brennan, J., 2009. ‘Ireland’s Second Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty’, Europe’s World, Spring.

O’Brennan, J., 2008. ‘Ireland’s Plan to Resurrect the Lisbon Treaty to be Unveiled at Brussels Summit’, CEPS Commentary, December, Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, http://shop.ceps.eu/BookDetail.php?item_id=1763

O’Brennan, J., 2008. ‘Ireland’s Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty’, Politology and Law, Georgia, No.4, 2008, 6-13).

O’Brennan, J. and Raunio, T., 2007, ‘Introduction: Deparliamentarization through European Integration?’, in O’ Brennan, J. and Raunio, T., (eds), National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union: from ‘Victims’ of Integration to Competitive Actors? Abingdon: Routledge, pp.1-19.

O’Brennan, J. and Raunio, T., 2007, ‘National Parliaments within the EU: Finally Learning to play the game? In O’ Brennan, J. and Raunio, T., (eds), National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union: from ‘Victims’ of Integration to Competitive Actors? Abingdon: Routledge, pp.245-261.

O’Brennan, J., 2005 ‘The National Forum on Europe’, in Holmes, M. (ed.) Ireland and the European Union Post-Nice, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.114-132.

O’Brennan, J., 2003. ‘Gaining the Consent of EU Citizens: the Constitutional Ratification Problem facing the European Union’, in Karasinska-Fendler, M. (ed.), Enlargement and EU Constitution-Building, Lodz, Poland: European Institute, pp.53-58.

O’ Brennan, J., 2002. ‘The Need for a Code of Conduct and the Regulation of Members’ Interests’, 2002. Interim Report of the IACDD and OSCE Review of the Parliamentary Procedures of the Republic of Serbia, IACDD/OSCE, Belgrade, 29 March, pp.64-72.

O’ Brennan, J., 2001. ‘A Social Constructivist Perspective on Enlargement’, in, Levrat, N. and Willa, P. (eds.), EU External Capability and Influence in International Relations, Instiut Europeene de l'Universite de Geneve and ECPR, Geneva, pp.161-187.

Link: http://www.unige.ch/ieug/B6__O%27Brennan.pdf

O’ Brennan, J., 2001. ‘Ireland and the EU: 25 Years of Membership’, in, Yaminova, Y. (ed.), Europe: Globalization and Regionalization, Scholle Press, Bulgaria, pp.37-48.

O’ Brennan, J., 1998. ‘EU Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: Why the Revolution in Numbers Requires an Institutional Revolution’, University of Limerick Political and Economic Review (ULPER), Volume 3, pp.155-76.

Book Reviews

O’Brennan, J., 2011. Review of Nadya Nedelsky, Defining the Sovereign Community: the Czech and Slovak Experiences, in Political Studies, Volume in press

O’Brennan, J., 2010. Review of Markus Kornprobst, Irredentism in European Politics: Argumentation, Compromise and Norms’, in Political Studies, Volume in press

O’ Brennan, J., 2008. Review of Beate Sissenich, Building States without Society: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary, in Slavic Review, Volume 67, Number 2.

O’ Brennan, J., 2008. Review of Zavier Boughari, Elissa Helms and Ger Duijzings (eds), The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society, in Millennium, Volume 36, Number 4.

O’Brennan, J., 2007 , Review of Sonia Lucarelli and Ian Manners (eds), Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, Abingdon: Routledge, in Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, June, p. 515.

O’Brennan, J., 2007, Review of Tonny Brems Knudsden and Carstan Bagge Laustsen (eds), Kosovo between War and Peace, Abingdon: Routledge, in Millennium, Volume 35, Number 2.

O’Brennan, J, 2007, Review of Osamu Idea (ed.) Beyond Sovereignty: From Status Law to Transnational Citizenship? Hokkaido: Slavic Research Centre, in Slavic Review, Volume 66, Number 3, p.532.

O’Brennan, J., 2006. Review of Erik Oddvar Eriksen (ed), Making the European Polity: Reflexive Integration in the EU. Abingdon: Routledge, in Political Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3, September, p.348.

O’Brennan, J. 2006. ‘Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Conditionality, Europeanisation and Expansion’, Review of recent volumes by Neil Nugent (ed.), European Union Enlargement,  and Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier (eds), The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe, in Millennium, Volume 34, No.2, p.1024-26,

O’ Brennan, J., 1999. Review of Neil Collins (Ed.), Political Issues in Ireland Today, in Irish Political Studies, Volume 14, pp.174-6.

Newspapers and Media (Selected)

(with Gavan Titley) ‘Ireland has done what the EU wanted so where's the reward?’, The Guardian (Comment is Free), 29 December 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/29/ireland-imf-reward

‘Do we need a referendum?’ Sunday Business Post, 18 December 2011, http://www.businesspost.ie

Guest on The Business with George Lee, RTE Radio One, 10 December 2011, On the Euro-Zone Fiscal Compact and the EU Summit Meeting, http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebusiness/2011-12-10.html

‘For Europe to Convince, its judges must be convinced first’, The Daily Star (Lebanon), 18 July 2011, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2011/Jul-18/For-Europe-to-convince-its-judges-must-be-convinced-first.ashx#axzz1SUWa7uIs

‘A Europe of Judges’, Egypt Daily News, 11 July 2011, http://thedailynewsegypt.com/global-views/a-europe-of-judges.html

‘Una Europa de Jueces’, El Nuevo Dia, 11 July 2011, http://www.elnuevodia.com/columna-unaeurpadejueces-1013517.html 

‘A Europe of Judges’, China Daily, 8 July 2011, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-07/08/content_12865394.htm

‘A Europe of Judges’, Gazeta Wyborcza, 5 July 2011, http://wyborcza.pl/liderzyopinii/1,109451,9894376,A_Europe_of_Judges.html

‘European Integration: a trend toward the empowerment of the EU’, EU Examiner, 3 July 2010, http://www.euexaminer.eu/european-court-of-justice

‘A Europe of Judges’, Korea Herald, 3 July 2011, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/07/137_90205.html

‘A Trend toward Empowerment of the EU’, Die Welt, 2 July 2011,  http://www.welt.de/debatte/the-world-in-words/article13464256/A-trend-toward-the-empowerment-of-the-EU.html

‘A Europe of Judges’, Georgian Times, 2 July 2011, http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=25311

‘A Europe of Judges’, Today’s Zaman, 1 July 2011, http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&newsId=249160&link=249160

‘Mladic arrest brings Serbia Closer to EU’, The Sunday Business Post, 29 May 2011, http://www.sbpost.ie/news/world/mladic-arrest-brings-serbia-closer-to-eu-56555.html

Interview with the Times of Malta, on the Irish economic crisis, 15 November 2010; http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101126/business/euro-crisis-from-tiger-to-pussycat

Panelist, the Dunphy Show, Newstalk, 31 October 2010; http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/the-dunphy-show/

Interview with BBC World Service on the Kosovo issue; 23 July 2010,  http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/news

Interview with the Sunday Times, on the European External Action Service and Ireland’s embassies abroad, 14 March 2010; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article7061028.ece

Interview with BBC World Service on the situation in the Western Balkans, 8 March 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/news/2010/03/100309_brdo_pundit.shtml

Guest appearance on Tonight with Vincent Browne, TV3, on Anniversary on Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9 November 2009, http://www.tv3.ie/shows.php?request=tonightwithvincentbrowne

Interview with the Times of Malta on the Lisbon Treaty and European Security, 26 October 2009; http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091027/local/lisbon-treaty-not-radical-just-right

Interview with TVM Malta on the Lisbon Treaty, 24 October 2009.

Interview with NET TV Malta on the Lisbon Treaty, 24 October 2009.

Interview with France24 Television on the Lisbon Treaty referendum, 5 October 2009.

Interview on the Lisbon Treaty referendum with Pravda (Slovakia), 2 October 2009.

‘Ireland decides for a second time’, The Times of Malta, 2 October 2009, http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091002/opinion/ireland-decides-for-a-second-time

‘Irelanders get to decide fate of Lisbon Treaty’, Khaleej Times, 2 October 2009, http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=/data/opinion/2009/October/opinion_October6.xml&section=opinion

Interview with Press Association on Lisbon Referendum, 1 October 2009.

‘Ireland Decides, again’, Macau Daily Times, 1 October 2009, http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/foreign-desk/4305-Ireland-Decides-Again.html

‘Fate of EU Hanging in Balance as Irish head to polls’, The Scotsman, 1 October 2009, http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Fate-of-EU-hanging-in.5693597.jp

‘Ireland to go to the polls Again’, The Brunei Times, 1 October 2009, http://www.bt.com.bn/en/opinion/2009/10/01/ireland-goes-polls-again

 Ireland Decides Again’, Al Watan, 1 October 2009, http://alwatandaily.alwatan.com.kw/Default.aspx?MgDid=800361&pageId=522

‘Napetí roste. Evropa ceká, jak se rozhodnou Irové’, Dnes (Czech Republic), 1 October 2009, http://zpravy.idnes.cz/napeti-roste-evropa-ceka-jak-se-rozhodnou-irove-f5k-/kavarna.asp?c=A091001_170448_kavarna_bos

‘Ireland Decides, again’. Jordan Times, 30 September 2009, http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=20318

‘Irlanda Decide otra vez’, El País, 30 September 2009, http://www.elpais.com/articulo/opinion/Irlanda/decide/vez/elpepuopi/20090930elpepiopi_4/Tes

‘Irish voters weigh the Lisbon Treaty again’, the Japan Times, 30 September 2009, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20090930a2.html

‘Irlanda Decide otra vez’. Bitacorrs Almendron, 30 September 2009, http://www.almendron.com/tribuna/27106/irlanda-decide-otra-vez/

‘Ireland Decides, again’, Today’s Zaman, 29 September 2009, http://todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-188303-ireland-decides-again.html

‘Future of the EU hangs on vote in Ireland on Friday’, Taipei Times, 29 September 2009, http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2009/09/29/2003454711

‘Ireland decides, again’, the Daily News Egypt, 29 September 2009, http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=24819

‘Ireland to decide again on EU Treaty’, Daum, 29 September 2009, http://media.daum.net/foreign/englishnews/view.html?cateid=1047&newsid=20090929021523465&p=koreaherald

‘Anxious EU’s Future at stake’, The Australian, 29 September 2009, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26136387-7583,00.html

‘Ireland to decide again on EU Treaty’, Korea Herald, 28 September 2009, http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/09/29/200909290003.asp

Ireland votes, again’, Buenos Aires Herald, 28 September 2009, http://www.buenosairesherald.com/PrintedEdition/View/12994

‘Irish voters decide a second time’, the Gulf Times, 26 September 2009, http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=316741&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

'Ireland votes, again’, Burma Digest, 25 September 2009, http://burmadigest.info/2009/09/25/ireland-decides-again/

Interview on the Lisbon Treaty Referendum with BBC Radio 4 The Westminster Hour, 20 September 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/8201986.stm

Interview with Limerick Leader on Lisbon Treaty Campaign, 29 August 2009.

Interview with Radio Live 95fm on Local and European Elections, 8 June 2009.

Interview with Limerick Leader on Local and European elections, 8 June 2009.

Interview with Czech Daily Hospodarske noviny on the European Council Summit meeting, 12 December 2008.

 ‘The Irish Think Again about the Lisbon Treaty’, China Daily, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2008-12/12/content_7297178.htm

Interview with the Press Association about the European Council Summit, 10 December 2008.

 ‘Ireland must vote on whether we remain a member of the EU’, The Irish Times, 9 December 2008, http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1209/1228571686276.html

‘Will Ireland say Yes to Lisbon? The Guardian (Comment is Free), 8 December 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/08/ireland-lisbon-treaty

‘The Irish Think Again about the Lisbon Treaty’, the Gulf Times, 8 December 2008, http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=259358&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

‘The Irish Think Again about the Lisbon Treaty’, Today’s Zaman, 7 December 2008, http://todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=160864

‘The Irish Think Again about the Lisbon Treaty’, The Guatemala Times, 5 December 2008, http://www.guatemala-times.com/opinion/163-europe-at-home-and-abroad/605-the-irish-think-again-about-the-lisbon-treaty.html

‘Ireland’s Lisbon Trauma Continues…..with no end in sight’, Threemonkeysonline.com, 21 November 2008, http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/tmo_article.php?pid=444

‘Reflections on a Second Irish Lisbon Referendum’, EurActiv.com, 10 November 2008, http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/reflecting-second-irish-lisbon-referendum/article-177003

Interview with Deutsche Welle Radio on the fallout from the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, 25 September 2008.

Interview with BBC World Service on EU-Serbian relations in the aftermath of the arrest of Radovan Karazdic, 30 June 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/news/2008/07/080731_eu_serbia.shtml

Interview with Chinese State Television, CCTV-9 on the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, 19 June 2008.

 ‘Ireland Votes, Europe awaits result’, The Korea Herald, 12 June 2008, http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_contents.asp

‘Europe anxiously awaits the results of Ireland’s Vote’, The Daily Star (Lebanon), 12 June 2008, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=93010

‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, Buenos Aires Herald, 12 June 2008, http://www.buenosairesherald.com/classifieds/heading.jsp

‘With Europe waiting, Ireland votes on Treaty’, the Japan Times, 11 June 2008, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/eo20080611a1.html

‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, The Daily News Egypt, 11 June 2008, http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=14340

‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, The Jordan Times, 10 June 2008; http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=8490

‘Everything to play for in the Final Run-up to Ireland’s referendum’, the Scotsman, 9 June 2008, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/comment?articleid=4163942

 ‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, Ziua (Romania), 9 June 2008, http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2008-06-09&id=238513

‘Der Musterknabe Wamkt’, Die Welt, 8 June 2008,  http://debatte.welt.de/kommentare/75731/der+musterknabe+wankt

‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, the Burma Digest,7 June 2008, http://burmadigest.wordpress.com/

‘Ireland Votes, Europe Waits’, The Guardian, 6 June 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/06/ireland.eu?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

‘Serbia’s Choice’, Turkish Weekly, 23 January 2008.

Interview with BBC World Service Radio on Serbian Presidential Elections, 22 January 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/serbian/news/2008/01/080122_serbia_elex_gas.shtml

‘Serbia’s Choice’, Daily Times (Pakistan), 18 January 2008, http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C01%5C18%5Cstory_18-1-2008_pg3_4

‘Serbia’s Choice’, Mmegi (Botswana), 18 January 2008.

‘Serbia to Choose EU Orbit or Isolation’, the Japan Times, 18 January 2008, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20080118a1.html

‘Serbia to Choose EU Orbit or Isolation’, Iceland News, 18 January 2008.

‘Serbia’s Choice’, The Bangladesh Independent, 18 January 2008.

‘Srbská Volba’, Sme (Slovakia), 18 January 2008.

‘Alte Kräfte drängen Serbien in die Isolation’, Die Welt, 18 January 2008, http://debatte.welt.de/kommentare/56442/alte+kraefte+draengen+serbien+in+die+isolation

‘Serbia’s Choice’, Macau Daily Times, 18 January 2008.

‘La Opción de Serbia’, El Tiempo (Colombia), 18 January 2008, http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/otroscolumnistas/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3922746.html

 ‘Serbia’s Choice: A Prosperous Future or an Obsessive Past?’ The Daily Star (Lebanon), 17 January 2008.

‘La Choix de la Serbie’, L’orient le Jour (Lebanon), 17 January 2008.

‘Вибір Сербії’, Den (Ukraine), http://www.day.kiev.ua/194709/ 17 January 2008.

‘La Opción de Serbia’, La Prensa (Panama), 17 January 2008, http://www.prensa.com/hoy/perspectiva/1237349.html

‘Kosovo: the Hour of Europe’, Open Democracy, 14 January 2008, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/kosovo_hour_of_europe (Syndicated worldwide)

Interview with RTE Nuacht/TG4 on Kosovo’s impending independence, 11 January 2008.

Interview with Myles Dungan, RTE Radio One ‘Drivetime’ Programme on Kosovo, 3 January 2008.

O’Brennan, J., ‘EU Offer Would Boost Reform in Turkey’, the Irish Times, 28 September 2005.

O’Brennan, J., ‘EU Must not Turn Away from Further Enlargement’, www.threemonkeysonline.com, June 2005.

O’Brennan, J., ‘EU Finally to Say Yes to Turkey?’ www.threemonkeysonline.com, November 2004.

O’Brennan, J., ‘Kosovo’ (comment), International Herald Tribune, 6 April 2004.

O’Brennan, J., ‘Kosovo: Can Sharing of Power Ever Work? the Irish Times, 30 March 2004, http://www.mfa.gov.yu/FDP/ireland300304_e.html

O’Brennan, J., ‘Leadership Vacuum at heart of EU Exposed’, the Irish Times, 17 December 2003, http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2003/1217/1071532690235.html