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The politics of antagonism : understanding Northern Ireland /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury Academic collections. History and politics in the 20th cenutry: international relations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Plan of the book; Terminology and how to read this book; 1 Auditing the antagonism; The comparative scale of the conflict; The militant agents and their civilian victims; Forms of killing; Trends in deaths, 1969-90; The status of victims and responsibility for deaths, 1969-89; Injuries, explosions, shootings, robberies, intimidation, and incarcerations, 1969-90; The other costs of the war
- 2 The colonial roots of antagonism: fateful triangles in Ulster, Ireland, and Britain, 1609-1920The plantation of Ulster; The political development of the British archipelago; The incomplete penetration of Ireland by the English Crow n and the British state; The failure of Anglican and British standardization; The crises of 'participation': nationalism and unionism; The Great War and partition; Conclusion; 3 Exercising control: the second Protestant ascendancy, 1920-62; Hegemonic control and particularist regimes; Hegemonic control in Northern Ireland; Territorial control
- Constitutional controlElectoral control; Coercive control; Legal control; Economic control; Administrative control; Why 'hegemonic control' describes the Stormont system; What motivated hegemonic control?; The external environment of hegemonic control; Appendix 3.1 The relative reduction in the effective numbe r of parties caused by PR(STV) in 1925 compared wit h plurality-rule in 1929; 4 Losing control: the collapse of the Unionist regime, 1963-72; The exogenous background to 'O'Neillism'; The endogenous background to 'O'Neillism'; 'O'Neillism' and its consequences
- British intervention: the politics of embarrassmentConclusion; 5 Deadlock, 1972-85: the limits to British arbitration; British arbitration; The evolution of party-competition and the party-system, 1969-85; Arbitration and reform in an ethnically divided society; Consociational initiatives, 1972-6; A second start: criminalisation, Ulsterisation, an d normalisation, 1976-81; The second wave of consociational initiatives, 1979-82; Searching for a way out of international and domesti c embarrassment
- 6 The meaning(s) and making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement: an experiment in coercive consociationalismThe content of the AIA and its rival interpretations; Why was the AIA signed?; Rational actor explanations; Organizational process explanations; Governmental politics explanations; Conclusion: the nature of the experiment; 7 The impact of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-9: the limits to coercive consociationalism; Co-operation and conflict in British-Irish relations; Party-political developments and the failure of coerciv e consociationalism; Social justice and legal justice