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Applying approaches prominent in the field, this book explains the achievements and shortcomings of the peace in Northern Ireland, focusing on the role of a number of significant actors as well as those who have been marginalised by the process.
List of contents
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
About the author
Timothy J. White is Professor of Political Science at Xavier University
Summary
Applying approaches prominent in the field, this book explains the achievements and shortcomings of the peace in Northern Ireland, focusing on the role of a number of significant actors as well as those who have been marginalised by the process.
