The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements

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Overview

This book collects some of the major essays by two of the leading authorities on the Northern Ireland conflict. It is unified by the theory of consociation, one of the most influential theories in the regulation of conflicts. The authors are critical exponents of the approach, and several chapters explain its attractions over alternative forms of conflict regulation. The book explains why Northern Ireland's national divisions have made the achievement of a consociational agreement particularly difficult.

The issues raised in the book are crucial to a proper understanding of Northern Ireland's past and future, which, the authors argue, is likely to involve some type of consociational democracy, whether or not the one agreed to on Good Friday 1998.

The issues addressed are not particular to Northern Ireland. They are relevant to a host of other divided territories, including Cyprus, Kossovo, Macedonia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria , and Afghanistan. The book is therefore vital reading not just for Northern Ireland specialists but for anyone interested in consociation and in the just and durable regulation of national and ethnic conflict.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199266579
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication date: 5/20/2004
  • Pages: 448
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 6.30 (h) x 1.30 (d)

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Queens University

University of Pennsylvania

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Table of Contents

Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Consociational Theory and Northern Ireland 1
2 The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Folly or Statecraft? 62
3 The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism in Northern Ireland 97
4 Comparing Northern Ireland 132
5 Five Fallacies: Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of Liberalism 167
6 The Labour Government and Northern Ireland, 1974-9 194
7 The Conservative Stewardship of Northern Ireland 1979-97: Sound-bottomed Contradictions or Slow Learning? 217
8 Political Settlements in Northern Ireland and South Africa 236
9 The Nature of the Agreement 260
10 Globalization, European Integration, and the Northern Ireland Conflict 294
11 'Democracy' in Northern Ireland: Experiments in Self-rule from the Protestant Ascendancy to the Good Friday Agreement 323
12 The Protection of Human Rights under the Belfast Agreement 352
13 The Politics of Policing Reform in Northern Ireland 371
Bibliography of Writings by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary on Irish Politics, 1985-2003 404
Name Index 415
Subject Index 419
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