Maria Ryan

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Expertise Summary

My research interests are broadly in the field of post-Cold War US foreign policy, in particular the development of neoconservatism; intellectuals and foreign policy; humanitarian interventionism; the Bush administration and the 'Global War on Terror'; as well as the history of the CIA. My first book, Neoconservatism and the New American Century, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan (New York) in October 2010. I am now researching my second monograph, which is provisionally titled Beyond Iraq: the War on Terror on the Periphery. This is supported by an Early Career Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

I am happy to supervise post-graduate students who are interested in any aspects of post-Cold War US foreign policy.

Selected Publications

• RYAN, MARIA, 2010. Neoconservatism and the New American Century Palgrave Macmillan.
• RYAN, MARIA, 2011. "War in countries we are not at war with": The 'war on terror' on the periphery from Bush to Obama International Politics. 48(2/3), 364-389
• RYAN, MARIA, 2011. Bush's "Useful Idiots": 9/11, the Liberal Hawks, and the Cooption of the "War on Terror" Journal of American Studies. 45(4), 667-693 (In Press.)
• RYAN, MARIA, 2010. Neoconservatism and the American Public: Was 9/11 a ‘Hegemonic Moment’?’. In: JOHNSTONE, ANDREW AND LAVILLE, HELEN, ed., The US Public and American Foreign Policy Routledge. 155-171

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• MARIA RYAN, 2013. Wilful Blindness or Blissful Ignorance? The United States and the Successful Denuclearisation of Iraq Intelligence and National Security. (In Press.)
• RYAN, MARIA, 2011. Bush's "Useful Idiots": 9/11, the Liberal Hawks, and the Cooption of the "War on Terror" Journal of American Studies. 45(4), 667-693 (In Press.)
• RYAN, MARIA, 2011. "War in countries we are not at war with": The 'war on terror' on the periphery from Bush to Obama International Politics. 48(2/3), 364-389
• RYAN, MARIA, 2010. Neoconservatism and the New American Century Palgrave Macmillan.
• RYAN, MARIA, 2010. Neoconservatism and the American Public: Was 9/11 a ‘Hegemonic Moment’?’. In: JOHNSTONE, ANDREW AND LAVILLE, HELEN, ed., The US Public and American Foreign Policy Routledge. 155-171
• RYAN, MARIA, 2010. "Exporting Democracy"?: Neoconservatism and the Limits of Military Intervention, 1989-2008 Diplomacy & Statecraft. 21(3), 491-515
• LUCAS, SCOTT AND RYAN, MARIA, 2008. Against Everyone and No-one: The Failure of the Unipolar in Iraq and Beyond. In: RYAN, DAVID AND KIELY PATRICK, ed., American and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics Since 1958 1st ed.. Routledge, London. 154-180
• RYAN, M., 2006. Neconservative Intellectuals and the Limitations of Governing: The Reagan Administration and the Demise of the Cold War Comparative American Studies. 4(4), 409-420
• RYAN, M., 2006. Filling in the 'Unknowns': Hypothesis-Based Intelligence and the Rumsfeld Commission Intelligence and National Security. 21(2), 286-315
• RYAN, M., 2002. Inventing the 'Axis of Evil': The myth and reality of US intelligence and policy making after 9/11 Intelligence and National Security. 17(4), 55-76