Dr Liam O’Shea has authored numerous policy reports and academic publications on security sector reform, policing, and anti-corruption, as well as other security and geopolitical issues. He also has extensive experience conducting internal evaluations and producing analysis for governments and international organisations.
Reports / Publications
- Addressing Security Actors’ Involvement in Serious and Organised Crime – Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme Report (SOC-ACE, FCDO-funded research programme) (Forthcoming)
- Israel and the West’s Future Reputational Problem – RUSI Commentary (01.2024)
- Illuminating the Role of Third-Country Jurisdictions in Sanctions Evasion and Avoidance – SOC-ACE Report (10.2023)
- What Ukraine Must Do to Fight Corruption: Lessons from Around the World – RUSI Commentary (04.2023)
- Countering Misogyny and Building Trust in UK Policing – RUSI Commentary, with A. Hack (03.2023)
- Can Russia Police Its Protests – and Its Elites? – RUSI Commentary (11.2022)
- The $230 billion question: Why is so much being spent on International Police Assistance, with so little evidence? – Transitional Criminology (10.2022)
- What does Russia Offer Ukraine and Its Neighbours? – International Affairs (Chatham House) Blog (02.2022)
- Nigerian Police Reform: 5 Key Measures and Why Civil Society is Key to Achieving Them – International Affairs (Chatham House) Blog (11.2020)
- Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (UK) – Guidance for Security and Justice Programmes (2019)
Academic Publications
- Why Democratic Police Reform Mostly Fails and Sometimes Succeeds: Police Reform and Low State Capacity, Authoritarianism and Neo–Patrimonial Politics (in the Former Soviet Union) – Policing & Society (2023), 33 (3)
- Democratic Police Reform, Security Sector Reform, Anti–Corruption and Spoilers: Lessons from Georgia – Conflict, Security and Development (2022), 22 (4)
- “Informal Economic Practices Within the Kyrgyz Police (Militsiya)” – In, The Persistence of Informal Economic Practices in Post-Socialist Societies, Ed. J. Morris and A. Polese (2015), London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Why Does Police Reform Appear to Have Been More Successful in Georgia than in Kyrgyzstan or Russia? – The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (Winter 2012), Issue 13, with K. Kakachia
- Improving the UK’s Contribution to International Policing – Policing (2010), 4 (1)