9780198870722-0198870728-A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II: Control (A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 2)

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II: Control (A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 2)

ISBN-13: 9780198870722
ISBN-10: 0198870728
Edition: Reprint
Author: Brendan OLeary
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198870722
ISBN-10: 0198870728
Edition: Reprint
Author: Brendan OLeary
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II: Control (A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 2) (ISBN-13: 9780198870722 and ISBN-10: 0198870728), written by authors Brendan OLeary, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Great Britain (European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II: Control (A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 2) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Great Britain books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.76.

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The second volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland.This landmark synthesis of political science and historical institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism.Northern Ireland was coercively created through a contested partition in 1920. Subsequently Great Britain compelled Sinn Fein's leaders to rescind the declaration of an Irish Republic, remain within the British Empire, and grant the Belfast Parliament the right to secede. If it did so, a commissionwould consider modifying the new border. The outcome, however, was the formation of two insecure regimes, North and South, both of which experienced civil war, while the boundary commission was subverted.In the North a control system organized the new majority behind a dominant party that won all elections to the Belfast parliament until its abolition in 1972. The Ulster Unionist Party successfully disorganized Northern nationalists and Catholics. Bolstered by the "Specials," a militia created fromthe Ulster Volunteer Force, this system displayed a pathological version of the Westminster model of democracy, which may reproduce one-party dominance, and enforce national, ethnic, religious, and cultural discrimination. How the Unionist elite improvised this control regime, and why it collapsedunder the impact of a civil rights movement in the 1960s, take center-stage in this second volume of A Treatise on Northern Ireland.The North's trajectory is paired and compared with the Irish Free State's incremental decolonization and restoration of a Republic. Irish state-building, however, took place at the expense of the limited prospect of persuading Ulster Protestants that Irish reunification was in their interests, orconsistent with their identities.Northern Ireland was placed under British direct rule in 1972 while counter-insurgency practices applied elsewhere in its diminishing empire were deployed from 1969 with disastrous consequences. On January 1 1973, however, the UK and Ireland joined the then European Economic Community. Many hopedthat would help end conflict in and over Northern Ireland. Such hopes were premature. Northern Ireland appeared locked in a stalemate of political violence punctuated by failed political initiatives.

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