Peadar Kirby

Peadar Kirby is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is author of Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalisation (Pluto Press, 2006).

Gangs and wolves: violence and vulnerability in a global economy

Forces of globalization provide the link between the areas of extreme criminal violence in poorer countries and the random attacks carried out by fundamentalists in the west. On all sides, economic interconnectedness has brought wealth to some, criminal opportunities to others, and vulnerability t

By Peadar Kirby

/ 12 Oct 2011