History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academi: The Politics of Antagonism (Hardcover)

Lauder Professor of Political Science and and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict Brendan O'Leary; Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy John McGarry
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Written during the Northern Ireland peace process and just before the Good Friday Agreement, The Politics of Antagonism sets out to answer questions such as why successive British Governments failed to.

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reach a power-sharing settlement in Northern Ireland and what progress has been made with the Anglo-Irish Agreement. O'Leary and McGarry assess these topics in the light of past historical and social-science scholarship, in interviews of key politicians, and in an examination of political violence since 1969. The result is a book which points to feasible strategies for a democratic settlement in the Northern Ireland question and which allows today's scholars and students to analyse approaches to Northern Ireland from the perspective of the recent past.