UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies
UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy
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President Clinton addresses the Institute Sept 2010
Dr. Andrew Sanders
Andrew Sanders is the John Moore Newman Research Fellow in Diaspora, Conflict and Diplomacy at the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. A PhD graduate of the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, he taught in the history department at Seattle University from 2009-2010.
He is the author of Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy (Edinburgh, 2010) and co-author of the forthcoming Times of Troubles: Britain's War in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh, 2012), as well as articles on aspects of the Northern Ireland Troubles and the Irish-American dimension to it.
His research interests are diverse and include British and Irish political history, American political history, terrorism studies and diaspora studies. He has featured as a media commentator on these topics, notably for the Huffington Post and the BBC.
His current research project is an interdisciplinary analysis of American, and particularly Irish-American, involvement in the peace process and peacebuilding in Ireland.