The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern IrelandWritten during the Northern Ireland peace process and just before the Good Friday Agreement, The Politics of Antagonism sets out to answer questions such as why successive British Governments failed to reach a power-sharing settlement in Northern Ireland and what progress has been made with the Anglo-Irish Agreement. O'Leary and McGarry assess these topics in the light of past historical and social-science scholarship, in interviews of key politicians, and in an examination of political violence since 1969. The result is a book which points to feasible strategies for a democratic settlement in the Northern Ireland question and which allows today's scholars and students to analyse approaches to Northern Ireland from the perspective of the recent past. |
Contents
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| 8 | |
fateful triangles in Ulster Ireland and Britain 16091920 | 54 |
the second Protestant ascendancy 192062 | 107 |
the collapse of the Unionist regime 196372 | 153 |
the limits to British arbitration | 181 |
an experiment in coercive consociationalism | 220 |
the limits to coercive consociationalism | 242 |
the Brooke initiative and after 1990 | 312 |
a tract of time between war and peace | 327 |
war about talks and talk about war FebruaryMarch 1996 | 356 |
Glossary | 370 |
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8 Transcending Antagonism? Resolving Northern Ireland in the 1990s | 277 |
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