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This book breaks new ground by using an oral archive of interviews and witness seminars involving senior British and Irish politicians and civil servants to explore fundamental change in the British-Irish relationship, especially as regards Northern Ireland. It examines new political alignments that have had the capacity to break the pattern of conflict in Northern Ireland, and that have implications for the resolution of comparable conflicts elsewhere.
This book was published as a special issue of
Irish Political Studies.
List of contents
1. Breaking patterns of conflict in Northern Ireland: new perspectives 2. History, structure and action in the settlement of complex conflicts: the Northern Ireland case 3. The complexity of British-Irish interdependence 4. The changing British-Irish relationship: the sovereignty dimension 5. British-Irish institutional structures: towards a new relationship 6. The dimensions of Irish Government involvement in the pursuit of a settlement of the Northern Ireland conflict 7. ‘The first major step in the peace process’? Exploring the impact of the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Irish republican thinking 8. The provision of Irish television in Northern Ireland: a slow British-Irish success story 9. The business of building peace: private sector cooperation across the Irish border
About the author
John Coakley is Professor in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on nationalism and ethnic conflict. Recent publications include
Pathways from Ethnic Conflict: Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies (editor, Routledge, 2010);
Nationalism, Ethnicity and the State (Sage, 2012);
Reforming Political Institutions: Ireland in Comparative Perspective (IPA, 2013); and
The Irish Presidency: Power, Ceremony and Politics (co-editor, Irish Academic Press, 2014).
Jennifer Todd is Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. She has researched and published extensively (individually and jointly) on the Northern Ireland conflict and settlement process, and on ethnicity, identity and identity change in, inter alia,
Political Studies, West European Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Theory and Society. Her most recent book is the co-edited
Ethnicity and Religion: Intersections and Comparisons (Routledge, 2011).
