Table of Contents

1. Aspects of the Belfast Agreement: Introduction, Rick Wilford2. Context and Content: Sunningdale and Belfast Compared, Stefan Wolff3. Transcending an Ethnic Party System? The Impact of Consociational Governance on Electoral Dynamics and the Party System, Paul Mitchell4. The 1998 Agreement: Results and Prospects, Brendan O'Leary5. Seeing it Through? The Multi-Faceted Implementation of the Belfast Agreement, Brigid Hadfield6. The Assembly and the Executive, Rick Wilford7. The British-Irish Council, Graham Walker8. The Patten Report and Post-Sovereignty Policing in Northern Ireland, Clive Walker9. From Insulation to Appeasement: The Major and Blair Governments Reconsidered, Henry Patterson10. Learning from 'The Leopard', Arthur Aughey11. Modern Irish Republicanism and the Belfast Agreement: Chickens Coming Home to Roost, or Turkeys Celebrating Christmas?, Anthony McIntyre12. The Belfast Agreement and the Republic of Ireland, John Coakley13. International Dimensions of the Belfast Agreement, Adrian Guelke