Johnny Ryan

Johnny Ryan is senior researcher at the Institute of European Affairs, a policy think-tank in Dublin, with offices in Brussels.

Google vs China: capitalist model, virtual wall

The breach between a corporate behemoth of the new-media age and an emerging state superpower defines the struggle for the world’s information future, say Johnny Ryan & Stefan Halper.

By Johnny Ryan and Stefan Halper

/ 22 Jan 2010

The Lisbon treaty and the Irish voter: democratic deficits

"The people have spoken." The pithy comment of the Republic of Ireland's justice minister Dermot Ahern as the votes were being counted from the country'

By Johnny Ryan and Joseph Curtin

/ 13 Jun 2008

iWar: pirates, states and the internet

On 27 April 2007 a blizzard of distributed "denial-of-service" attacks hit important websites in Estonia and continued until at least as late as mid-June. The targets included the

By Johnny Ryan

/ 6 Feb 2008

Europe, terrorism and the internet

European Union member-state governments are increasingly aware of the danger of terrorism perpetrated within their own borders - sometimes by their own citizens. From late 2005 onwards, the European commission

By Johnny Ryan

/ 6 Nov 2007

The militant Islamist call and its echo

On the internet, in gymnasiums, bookshops and video-clubs, recruitment propaganda is viewed by and debated among prospective Islamist militants. This wide-ranging material contains four recurrent themes; understanding them is the

By Johnny Ryan

/ 1 Aug 2007