Aspects of the Belfast Agreement

Zusatztext Aspects of the Belfast Agreement contains valuable insights from an impressive team of scholars. Its arguments frequently challenge orthodoxy and the book is all the stronger for that. Klappentext An original and comprehensive explanation of the most significant aspects of the Belfast Agreement. Its contributors discuss the motives of its signatories, the relationship between the Agreement and previous attempts to restore devolution to Northern Ireland, and the considerable difficulties that have been faced in implementing the deal struck on Good Friday 1998. The collection is up to date, and includes highly informed, lucid and accessible discussions of boththe institutional design of the Agreement and the popular reception it was accorded in Northern Ireland and beyond. It offers a balanced and critical appraisal of the most recent attempt to fashion a 'political settlement' which acknowledges the difficulties still to be faced in putting it fully intoeffect. Zusammenfassung This collection brings together leading experts on the politics and constitution of Northern Ireland to explore and analyze aspects of the 1998 Belfast Agreement, and to contrast rival interpretations of agreement.

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• Authors: Richard Wilford, Richard (Reader Wilford, Rick Wilford
• Assisted by: Richard Wilford (Editor), Richard (Reader Wilford (Editor), Rick Wilford (Editor), Wilford Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780199244041
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924404-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; England, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Northern Ireland, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, British & Irish history, Political science and theory, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Political structure and processes