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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465888603321

Titolo

The politics of antagonism : understanding Northern Ireland / / Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-4742-8779-4

1-4742-8778-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 p.)

Collana

History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collections

Disciplina

941.60824

Soggetti

Northern Ireland Politics and government 1969-1994

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Auditing the Antagonism -- 2. The Colonial Roots of Antagonism: Fateful Triangles in Ulster, Ireland, and Britain, 1609-1920 -- 3. Exercising Control: The Second Protestant Ascendancy, 1920-2 -- 4. Losing Control: The Collapse of the Unionist Regime, 1963-72 -- 5. Deadlock, 1972-85: The Limits to British Arbitration -- 6. The Meaning(s) and Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement: An Experiment in Coercive Consociationalism -- 7. The Impact of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-9: The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism -- 8. Transcending Antagonism? Resolving Northern Ireland in the 1990s -- 9. Epilogue: The Brooke Initiative and After, 1990- -- 10. Postscript: A Tract of Time between War and Peace -- 11. Addendum: War about Talks, and Talks about War, February-March 1996.

Sommario/riassunto

"Written 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.