Dr Adam Fusco
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Adam Fusco's research and teaching focuses on topics in Contemporary Political Theory and the History of Ideas. Adam's research examines the history of Irish political thought on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland from Ulster Unionist and Irish Republican perspectives.

More broadly, Adam's research interests include the politics of national self-determination and secession and the development and application of civic or neo-republican political theory.

Adam holds a PhD and master's degree from the University of York in Politics, and a BA in Modern History and Politics from Queen's University Belfast.

Research

Overview

Adam’s research concentrates on the following areas:

Political Theory
History of Ideas
Constitutional status of Northern Ireland
Ulster Unionist Political Thought
Irish Republican and Nationalist Thought
Irish/UK/British Constitutional and Territorial Politics
Civic/Neo-Republicanism
Secession
Self-Determination

I would be happy to receive PhD applications on these or related topics.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Constitutional and Territorial Ideologies in Britain and Ireland
Can Democracy Work?
Introduction to Political Theory: The State, Liberty and Revolution

Publications

Selected publications

(2021) 'Northern Ireland Independence Revisited', Nations and Nationalism, 1–17. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12802
(2020) 'Is Irish Reunification Republican?' in C. Fischer & A. Mahon (Ed.) Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780429199332-8

Full publications list

The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years on and the 'Test' of the Alliance Party, Slugger O'Toole, April 2023
A Step Change in Sinn Féin Strategy: Lessons Learned from the SNP Playbook?, Slugger O'Toole, May 2022.
Neither British nor Irish Rule: Arguments for Independence in Unionist Political Thought, LSE British Politics and Policy, December 2021.
Explaining Unionist Crises: The Protocol and the idea of Northern Ireland Independence, Writing the Troubles, December 2021.
Ireland has a Strange Relationship with the word ‘Republican’, Irish Times, 5 March 2020.
(2014) ‘After the Referendum: Why it can’t be Business as Usual’, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, 22 (1-2), pp.38-46.

Dr Adam Fusco Lecturer