Indispensable traitors : liberal parties in settler conflicts / / Thomas G. Mitchell

• Autore: Mitchell Thomas G. <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/9
• Soggetto topico: Conflict management; Ethnic conflict; Colonization; Liberalism; Political parties
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-149) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- INDISPENSABLE TRAITORS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- ISRAEL/PALESTINE -- NORTHERN IRELAND -- RHODESIA/SOUTH AFRICA -- 1 Introduction -- THE FAILURES -- THE LIBERAL PARTY 1953-68 -- RHODESIA: THE CENTRE PARTY AND THE RHODESIA PARTY 1968-77 -- ULSTER 1961-70 -- ISRAEL: THE INDEPENDENT LIBERALS, MOKED AND SHELLI 1973-84 -- NOTES -- 2 Origins and Expansion -- THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY -- FROM PROGRESSIVE PARTY TO PROGRESSIVE FEDERAL PARTY -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- THE ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND -- MERETZ -- NOTES -- 3 Leadership and Policies -- ELECTORAL CONSIDERATIONS AND POLICY -- THE PROGRESSIVES -- PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP -- ALLIANCE PARTY LEADERSHIP -- ALLIANCE POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES -- ISRAEL: THE MERETZ PARTY -- NOTES -- 4 Internal Settlements -- NORTHERN IRELAND -- SOUTH AFRICA 1986-89: THE KWAZULU-NATAL INDABA AND NATIONAL COUNCIL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 Conservative Settler Parties -- SOUTH AFRICA -- RHODESIA -- NORTHERN IRELAND -- ISRAEL -- THE CONSERVATIVES DURING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS -- KULTURKAMPF -- NOTES -- 6 The Final Settlement -- THE NEGOTIATIONS -- RIPENESS -- COMMITMENT -- CONSOCIATIONALISM -- RULES -- Expansion -- Conflict Policy and Negotiations -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Afterword -- Bibliographic Essay -- SOUTHERN AFRICA -- NORTHERN IRELAND -- ISRAEL -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: In settler societies, some conflicts have roots that are both ethnic and colonial in nature. These are conflicts between an indigenous ethnic group and groups and between an ethnic group and groups of settlers who have been transplanted to a territory by a colonial power as part of a colonizing effort. This study examines the role that liberal parties have played and can play in recent conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Typically, such parties reject the conventional wisdom of the settler population regarding the nature of the conflict. They also reject the radical thinking of the liberation movements and offer, instead, a third alternative. Mitchell hopes that this study will provide useful information for current liberal parties in Central and Eastern Europe and Israel. Ultimately, many of the liberal party's ideas are adopted by the main settler parties, allowing for a resolution of the conflict, generally through a compromise between the liberal and indigenous positions. However, before such resolution can occur, the liberals must achieve an electoral breakthrough that gives them a minimum of between five and ten percent of votes; they must also obtain significant stable representation in parliament. Liberal leadership must be innovative, offering new solutions that depart from the conventional wisdom of both sides. Mitchell provides the most detailed account yet published on the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. He also includes extensive information on the KwaZulu/Natal Indaba of 1986 and analysis of the electoral fortunes of the Progressive Federal Party in South Africa.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indispensable traitors
• ISBN: 9798400669767; 9780313010996; 0313010994
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961598703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions in comparative colonial studies ; ; no. 44.