UID:
almafu_9959242170802883
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5261-2418-1
Content:
Using the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations, this work looks at the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating work of leading scholars, it explores a range of topics, including the function of deception in promoting peace, the question of partition and how it was reimagined by nationalists such as John Hume, and how the decommissioning process led to a role in internal policing for paramilitaries. The influence of outside actors - notably the US and the EU - is also considered, along with the involvement of the Catholic Church and the marginalisation of women. The book is for academics interested in theories of international relations and to a wider public interested in understanding the Northern Ireland peace process.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
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Cover -- Theories of International Relations andNorthern Ireland -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Timothy J. White -- 1 The 'real' and 'dirty' politics of the Northern Ireland peace process: a constructivist realist critique of idealism and conservative realism: Paul Dixon -- 2 Issues, leaders, and regimes: reaching settlement in Northern Ireland: Andrew P. Owsiak -- 3 Under the gun: Northern Ireland's unique history with DDR: Carolyn Gallaher -- 4 Assessing the importance of ideas and agency in the Northern Ireland peace process: P. J. McLoughlin -- 5 The role of licit and illicit transnational networks during the Troubles: Devashree Gupta -- 6 Gender, International Relations theory, and Northern Ireland: Máire Braniff and Sophie Whiting -- 7 'A serious moral question to be properly understood': Catholic human rights discourse in Northern Ireland in the 1980s: Maria Power -- 8 Northern Ireland and the EU: applying a theory of multi-level governance: Mary C. Murphy -- 9 Peace and the private sector: Northern Ireland's regional experience of globalised trends: Katy Hayward and Eoin Magennis -- 10 Assessing external funding supports for the Northern Ireland peace process: Sandra Buchanan -- 11 Cooperation theory and the Northern Ireland peace process: Timothy J. White -- 12 Responsibility, justice, and reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Cillian McGrattan -- Conclusion: Northern Ireland and International Relations theory: Timothy J. White -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78499-528-2
Language:
English
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
