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The Northern Ireland peace process

From armed conflict to Brexit
Manchester University Press

von: Eamonn O'Kane
144,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	03.08.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781526116642
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	248

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Titelbeschreibung

This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains the decisions that shaped the peace process in their proper context. O'Kane argues that although the outcome of the process can be seen as a success, it is not the outcome that was originally expected or intended by most of its participants. By tracing the process and highlighting the pragmatic decisions of the parties that shaped it the work explains how Northern Ireland moved from conflict to peace. The book concludes by examining what the implications of Brexit are for Northern Ireland’s hard-won peace and political stability.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europe’s longest running modern conflict.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The origins of the peace process 2 The emergence (and collapse) of the peace process, 1990–1997 3 New Labour’s new peace process? Negotiating the Agreement, 1997–1998 4 Implementing the Agreement, from exaltation to exasperation, 1998–2003 5 The reconfiguration of Northern Ireland’s politics, from devolution to destruction, 2003–2017 6 Governing the present, dealing with the past and learning the lessons for the future Index

Autorenportrait

Eamonn O’Kane is a Reader in Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton

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Northern Ireland’s peace process brought an end to Europe’s longest-running post war armed conflict; yet the reasons for its emergence and outcome remain contested. This book charts the origin and development of the attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. It examines these developments in the context of the time in which they occurred. Many criticisms have been levelled at the process and its outcome in recent years, and this work explores the legitimacy of such accounts. It argues that critics often fail to appreciate the considerations and restraints that were acting on the key parties and individuals during the period. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, the book offers the fullest account of the transformation in Northern Ireland’s politics currently available. It explains why a process that was intended to result in a power-sharing government, led by the ‘moderate’ parties in Northern Ireland, resulted in the triumph of the ‘extremes’. The complexities of the peace process, from its clandestine origins in the early 1990s, through the perpetual crises of the following two decades and the shocks of the Brexit period, are explained. The book argues that although the peace process can certainly be seen as a success, its outcome was not what was intended or envisaged by its architects.