The Northern Ireland Conflict

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

ISBN 0199266573   Pages 448 ISBN13 9780199266579 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 802 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 18 Mar 2004   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress DA990.U46   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 941.60824   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		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

"While articulating an overall commitment to consociational theory, McGarry and O'Leary make important advances by considering the possibilities of "coerced consociationalism" in the context of Northern Ireland. With considerable comparative discussion of other theoretical approaches, the authors have produced an essential addition to the literature."--CHOICE

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