2017: ‘Pope Francis on Power, Politics and the Techno-Economic Paradigm’ in Sean McDonagh, ed.: Laduato Si’: An Irish Response. Essays on the Pope’s Letter on the Environment, Dublin: Veritas, pp. 125-36.
2017: ‘Cloughjordan Ecovillage: Modelling the transition to a low-carbon society’, in Ernest Garcia, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias and Peadar Kirby, eds: Transitioning to a Post-carbon Society: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-205.
2015: ‘Transitioning to a low-carbon society: The challenges for local authorities’, in Deiric Ó Broin and Peadar Kirby, eds: Local Authorities and Climate Change, Dublin: Glasnevin Publishing, pp. 55-69.
2015: ‘Ireland’s Boom-Bust Cycles: The Elusive Search for a Balanced Development’, in Yusuf Bangura, ed.: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 281-306.
2014: ‘Crisis en la periferia europea: política económica e impacto social en España e Irlanda’ (with Raúl de Arriba), in Antonio Sánchez Andrés and Juan Antonio Tomás Carpi, eds: Crisis y Política Económica en España: Un Análisis de la Política Económica Actual, Navarra: Editorial Aranzadi, pp. 63-86.
2014: ‘Groping Towards a New Future: Educating for Paradigm Change’, in Stephen McCloskey ed.: Development Education in Policy and Practice, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 175-87
2011: ‘The Myth of the Celtic Tiger: The political economy of Irish development since the 1990s’, in Liam Leonard and Iosif Botetzaglas, eds: Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece, Emerald Books, 2011, pp 3-23.
2011: ‘’Domhandú, Eacnamaíocht agus Féiniúlacht: Cás na hÉireann’, in Breandán Mac Cormaic, ed.: Féiniúlacht, Cultúr agus Teanga i Ré an Domhandaithe, Coiscéim, 2011, pp. 254-68.
2011: ‘Globalisation and Identity: Reflections from the Irish Experience’, in Pádraig Ó Duibhir, Rory McDaid and Andrew O’Shea, eds: All changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland, the Fifth Seamus Heaney Lectures, Duras Press, 2011, pp. 145-66.
2010: ‘The Competition State: Irish Lessons’, in Michael Böss, ed.: The Nation State in Transformation: Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation and Political Values, Aarhus University Press, 2010, pp. 191-212.
2010: ‘Globalisation and Vulnerability: Tracing its Impacts in Ireland’, in Paul Burgess and Peter Herrmann, eds: Highways, Crossroads and Cul de sacs: Journeys into Irish Youth and Community Work, Bremen: Europaischer Hochschul Verlag, 2010, pp. 11-40.
2009: ‘Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Return to Religion: Reflections from the Irish Experience’, in Eamon Maher, ed.: Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 93-111.
2009: ‘How the Celtic Tiger tames Irish dissent’, in Mark Perryman, ed.: Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations after a Union, Lawrence & Wishart, 2009, pp 207-221.
2008: ‘A Question of Compatability: The Democratic Project and Neoliberal Globalization’, in Eoin G. Cassidy, ed.: Community, Constitution, Ethos: Democratic Values and Citizenship in the Face of Globalization, Otior Press, 2008, pp. 19-30.
2008: ‘The Irish Republic : A project still to be completed’ in Finbar Cullen, ed.: The 1916 Rising: Then and Now, The Ireland Institute, Dublin , pp. 75-88.
2008: ‘The Catholic Church in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland’, in John Littleton and Eamon Maher, eds: Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical Appraisal, The Columba Press, Dublin, pp. 25-42.
2007: ‘El impacto social de la globalización: De la pobreza a la vulnerabilidad’, in Octavio Juárez Uña, Jaime Hormigos Ruiz and Antonio Martin Cabello, co-ordinadores: Las dimensiones sociales de la globalización, Madrid: Paraninfo Cengage Learning, pp 13-42.
2007 ‘State Reform, Good Governance and Economic Development: The Irish and Costa Rican Development Models compared’, in Franando Carillo Flórez and Luis Alberto Cordero, eds: Hacia El Buen Gobierno: Tareas aún pendientes, San José: Arias Foundation, 2007, pp. 190-208.
2007 ‘Implications of Globalisation: Present Imperfect, Future Tense’, in Anne Boran and Peter Cox, eds: Implications of Globalisation, Chester Academic Press,
2007, pp 24-51.
2007 ‘Populorum Progressio in the Era of Globalisation’, in The Development of Peoples: Challenges for Today and Tomorrow, edited by the International Jesuit Network for Development and published by the Columba Press, 2007, pp 118-127.
2006 ‘Between Europe and America’ in Andrew Wyndham, ed. Re-imagining Ireland, University of Virginia Press, pp 23-25.
2006 ‘The Changing Role of the Irish State: From welfare to competition state’ in Tom O’Connor and Mike Murphy, eds: Social Care in Ireland: Theory, Policy and Practice, CIT Press, 2006, pp 112-125.
2006 ‘Ireland’s Economic “Miracle”: Challenges from Development Theory’, in Majda Bne Saad and Maura Leen, eds: Trade, Aid and Development into the Twenty-first Century: A festschrift in honour of Helen O’Neill, UCD Press, 2006, pp 301-317.
2005 ‘The Irish State and the Celtic Tiger: A “flexible developmental state” or a competition state?’, in Graham Harrison, ed.: Global Encounters: International Political Economy, Development and Globalisation, Palgrave, pp 74-94.
2004 ‘Globalisation’, in B. Fanning, P. Kennedy, G. Kiely and S. Quinn, eds: Theorising Irish Social Policy, UCD Press, pp 23-41.
2003 Contributor to The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, Gill & Macmillan.
1997 ‘Towards a Model of Development that Generates Equality’, in Equality Policies and Social Change, Community Workers’ Cooperative and the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA), pp 22-36.