Failure of the Northern Ireland Peace Process - Softcover

Peatling, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0716533367 ISBN 13: 9780716533368

Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This book is a surprisingly broad study of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with an unusual and contentious hypothesis, though one ultimately likely to prove useful even to those who disagree with it. The book is influenced by a sense of the interlacing nature of political groups and dynamics in Northern Ireland which evinces understanding of (though not empathy with) even mutually exclusive positions in a way few writers on the Northern question draw out. This sense that even groups often portrayed as intransigent find a constituency in Northern Ireland based upon the lived experience of groups and communities is underpinned by the book's view of identity and its consequences. The book also addresses much discussed wider controversies, such as debates surrounding immigration, terrorism and September 11th, and national identity. It addresses these issues with unorthodox conclusions, and it is guaranteed to be of interest to intelligent non-specialists as well as to academics and policy makers.

About this title

Synopsis

This challenging and ambitious book aims to initiate a new departure in understanding not only of Northern Ireland but of important aspects of other modern societies. Offering challenging criticisms of the peace process from a variety of political and academic perspectives, this book fearlessly highlights the salience of remaining and highly resilient obstacles to the improvement of the lives of people in Northern Ireland. Finally, in an important contribution to the analysis of a number of wide-ranging current political and academic problems, an attempt is made to explain these residual obstacles in Northern Ireland in the light of cognate problems in wider British, Irish and other societies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716533367
• ISBN 13: 9780716533368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320