Eoin McNamara

Background

About Eoin McNamara

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Tartu and an MSc in security studies from University College London. My main research interests concern transatlantic relations; US grand strategy; NATO; the transformation of war; and security in northern and eastern Europe. I previously taught extensively in International Relations at the University of Tartu between 2013 and 2020. I have published in the NATO Review, the Revue Militaire Suisse, the Defence Forces Review, Irish Studies in International Affairs and in edited volumes published by Routledge and Palgrave MacMillan, among other outlets. I have been invited to give expert evidence on security and defence policy before the Oireachtas (Parliament of Ireland) Joint Committee on European Union Affairs and I have briefed the Irish Defence Forces Joint Command and Staff Course. My television, radio and newspaper commentary on security, defence and international affairs has featured globally with outlets such as BBC World, the Times of London, the New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Euronews, the Voice of America, Al-Jazeera, Radio Taiwan, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and Ireland’s national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).