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David Ryan

His current research focuses on U.S. collective memory and intervention after the Vietnam War, and he is co-editor of a book published this year titled Vietnam and Iraq: Lessons, Legacies, and Ghosts. Earlier he co-edited The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom. He is co-chair of the Transatlantic Studies Association and Associate Editor of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and a member of a number of other professional associations. He is currently director of a project on War and Identity hosted by the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland.


Books

Ryan, David. US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations: Voice of Intolerance. London: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Co-authored text, The History Atlas of North America. New York: Macmillan, 1998.

Ryan. & Victor Pungong (eds.). The United States and Decolonization. London: Macmillan, & New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

Ryan. US Foreign Policy in World History. (New International History Series) London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Ryan. The United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century. (Seminar Series).
London: Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.

Ryan. & John Dumbrell (eds.), Iraq in Vietnam: Tactics, lessons, legacies, ghosts
(London and New York: Routledge 2006).

Ryan. Frustrated Empire: US Foreign Policy from 9/11 to Iraq (London: Pluto
and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2007).

Contracted:

Ryan. Collective Memory & US Intervention since Vietnam. (London and New York:
Routledge, 2008).


Articles

Ryan. ‘Asserting US Power,’ in Philip John Davies, ed. An American Quarter
Century: US Politics from Vietnam to Clinton. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Ryan. ‘US Expansionism: From the Monroe Doctrine to the Open Door,’ in Philip John Davies, ed. Representing and Imagining America. Keele: Keele University Press, 1996.

Ryan. ‘US Ideology and Central American Revolutions in the Cold War,’ in Will Fowler, ed. Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Ryan. ‘The American Century: Response to the Roundtable,’ H-Diplo Electronic discussion site. 22 April 1999.

Ryan. ‘US “Colonialism” in Post-War Latin America,’ The International History Review 21, no. 2 (June 1999): 285-296.

Ryan. ‘The United States, Decolonization and the World System,’ in David Ryan and Victor Pungong (eds.), The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom (London and New York: Macmillan / St. Martin’s, 2000).

Ryan. ‘“With One Hand Tied Behind Our Back”: Collective Memory, the Media and
US Intervention From the Gulf War to Afghanistan’ Bernhard May and Michaela Hönicke Moore (eds.), The Uncertain Superpower: Domestic Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2003.

Ryan. ‘Ten Days in September: The Creeping Irrelevance of Transatlantic Allies,’
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 1, special edition, (Spring 2003).

Ryan. Contributor, Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: An International
Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2003).

Ryan. ‘Framing September 11: Rhetorical Device and Photographic Opinion’,
European Journal of American Culture, 23, no. 1 (2004).

Ryan. ‘Americanisation and Anti-Americanism at the Periphery: Nicaragua and the
Sandinistas,’ European Journal of American Culture, 23, no. 2 (2004).

Ryan. ‘U.S. Foreign Policy and the Guatemalan Revolution in World History,’ Edited
collection of conference proceedings by the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., USA, forthcoming.

Ryan. ‘Mapping Containment: The Cultural Construction of the Cold War’, in Douglas
Field (ed.), Culture and the Cold War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Ryan. H-Diplo/DH commentary: Ryan on Logevall (Bernath Lecture) (DH 28.4).
Fredrik Logevall, "A Critique of Containment" (Bernath Lecture), _Diplomatic History_ (28.4), (September 2004): 473-499. www.h-net.msu.edu, 4 May 2005.

Ryan. ‘Collective Memory and US Identity since Vietnam,’ in Rüdiger Kunow,
Wilfried Raussert, ed. Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities: An  Interdisciplinary Look at Identity Politics. Hamburg, Münster, London, Berlin: LIT-Verlag December 2005.

Ryan. ‘Option for the Poor: Liberation Theology and Anti-Americanization’ in Alan
McPherson (ed.), Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Past
and Present, (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006).

Ryan. ‘“Vietnam”, Victory Culture and Iraq: struggling with lessons, constraints and
credibility from Saigon to Falluja,’ in John Dumbrell and David Ryan (eds.), Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies, Ghosts (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).