Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island [Paperback]

This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international debates over state and nation and contested borders, looking at the dialectic between political action and institutions, examining party politics, ideological struggle and institutional change. It goes beyond the binary approaches to Irish politics and looks at the deep shifts associated with major socio-political changes, such as immigration, gender equality and civil society activism. Interdisciplinary in approach, it includes contributions from across history, law, sociology and political science and draws on a rich body of knowledge and original research data.

This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of Irish Politics, Society and History, British Politics, Peace and Conflict studies, Nationalism, and more broadly to European Politics.

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Contexts

1. State, Nation, Island: The Politics of Territory in Ireland

2. The British-Irish Relationship: Confusion, Complexity and (ultimately) Consensus

3. The EU Context of Change in State and Nation Post-1973

4. The Effectiveness of the Agreement: International Conditions and Contexts

5. British-Irish Relations and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: The Importance of Intergovernmentalism

Part II: Competition

6. Modelling Irelands Crises: North, South, and North-South Intersections

7. The Changing Nature of Electoral Competition in Ireland

8. DylÃ0