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Browsing by Subject "Northern Ireland--Politics and government"
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2006-01-11)This paper criticizes four typical explanations of settlement of internal conflicts, showing that they fail to give an adequate explanation of the 1998 settlement in Northern Ireland. Instead of inductively searching for ...
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The flexibility of Northern Ireland Unionists and Afrikaner Nationalists in comparative perspective (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)A common feature of comparisons of Northern Ireland and South Africa prior to South Africa's transition and the Northern Ireland peace process was the siege mentality of the dominant communities in the two societies. The ...
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(Peace and Conflict Studies, 2008)This paper explores the vital role played by the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in the formulation of a new political discourse and conceptual approach to the Northern Ireland problem. In particular, it shows ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)The mechanisms of institutional change identified in comparative studies of industrial policy and welfare state development are also to be found in processes of intergovernmental ethnic conflict regulation. This article ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)The paper examines the impact of two major events in the international system on the peace process: the end of the Cold War and the attack on America on 11 September 2001. The thesis first advanced by Michael Cox that ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)A political perspective: This paper reflects on the challenges and difficult contexts which hindered the process of negotiation that resulted in the Good Friday agreement. Problems included past political experiences, the ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2006-02-28)This article argues the crucial stage to the success or failure of a peace agreement is the implementation stage because it is at this stage that the agreement becomes subject to political forces which have not been involved ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)The challenge of dealing with diversity within democracy and of creating a new political culture in a divided society is the starting point of this paper. Using theories of recognition, these questions are examined in ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)This paper examines the extent and nature of institutional change arising from the Good Friday agreement in terms of the North-South dimension. The paper adopts an architectural analogy in its analysis of these developments, ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)This paper examines the functioning of the North-South implementation bodies formally created in 1999 over the first five years of their existence. It reviews the political and administrative difficulties that delayed ...
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(Political Studies Association and Blackwell Publishing, 2007-06)The recent literature on path dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article identifies path dependent patterns ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE: Although loyalism in its modern sense has been around since the 1920s, it acquired its present shape only at the beginning of the 1970s. Then it was reborn in paramilitary form, and was used by ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)A political perspective: The idea of “northern” nationalism is a questionable one, since the nationalist tradition within Northern Ireland sees itself in an island-wide context. From its origins in the civil rights ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE: The core principles on which Irish republicanism is based include commitments to popular sovereignty and to unity between the people of the island of Ireland. The struggle of republican leaders ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)REDEFINING UNIONISM : A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE The main unionist political demand in the years immediately after 1972 was for the return of the Northern Ireland parliament based on the principle of majority rule. ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE: The current difficulties in the peace process need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Although the two governments claim that the IRA is the only obstacle to a lasting settlement, the reality ...
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Resistance, obstruction and agenda-setting : the hidden politics of the Northern Ireland settlement (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)This paper examines Ulster unionism’s responses to and its increased disaffection from political developments in Northern Ireland since the 1990s. I suggest that Ulster unionist politics and, by way of extrapolation, ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2010-03)Religious distinctions, ethnic oppositions and national differences intersect in Northern Ireland. In this article I explore how this symbolic complexity has fed political conflict. I argue the institutional structure of ...
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