Indispensable traitors : liberal parties in settler conflicts / Thomas G. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Thomas G., 1957-

Series:

Contributions in comparative colonial studies ; no. 44.

Contributions in comparative colonial studies, 0163-3813 ; no. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressive Federal Party (South Africa).

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

Merets (Political party).

Conflict management.

Ethnic conflict.

Colonization.

Liberalism.

Political parties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In settler societies, some conflicts have roots that are both ethnic and colonial in nature. These are conflicts between an indigenous ethnic group and groups and between an ethnic group and groups of settlers who have been transplanted to a territory by a colonial power as part of a colonizing effort. This study examines the role that liberal parties have played and can play in recent conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Typically, such parties reject the conventional wisdom of the settler population regarding the nature of the conflict. They also reject the radical thinking of the liberation movements and offer, instead, a third alternative. Mitchell hopes that this study will provide useful information for current liberal parties in Central and Eastern Europe and Israel. Ultimately, many of the liberal party's ideas are adopted by the main settler parties, allowing for a resolution of the conflict, generally through a compromise between the liberal and indigenous positions. However, before such resolution can occur, the liberals must achieve an electoral breakthrough that gives them a minimum of between five and ten percent of votes; they must also obtain significant stable representation in parliament. Liberal leadership must be innovative, offering new solutions that depart from the conventional wisdom of both sides. Mitchell provides the most detailed account yet published on the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. He also includes extensive information on the KwaZulu/Natal Indaba of 1986 and analysis of the electoral fortunes of the Progressive Federal Party in South Africa.

Contents:

Cover

INDISPENSABLE TRAITORS

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

NORTHERN IRELAND

RHODESIA/SOUTH AFRICA

1 Introduction

THE FAILURES

THE LIBERAL PARTY 1953-68

RHODESIA: THE CENTRE PARTY AND THE RHODESIA PARTY 1968-77

ULSTER 1961-70

ISRAEL: THE INDEPENDENT LIBERALS, MOKED AND SHELLI 1973-84

NOTES

2 Origins and Expansion

THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY

FROM PROGRESSIVE PARTY TO PROGRESSIVE FEDERAL PARTY

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

THE ALLIANCE PARTY OF NORTHERN IRELAND

MERETZ

3 Leadership and Policies

ELECTORAL CONSIDERATIONS AND POLICY

THE PROGRESSIVES

PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP

ALLIANCE PARTY LEADERSHIP

ALLIANCE POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES

ISRAEL: THE MERETZ PARTY

4 Internal Settlements

SOUTH AFRICA 1986-89: THE KWAZULU-NATAL INDABA AND NATIONAL COUNCIL

CONCLUSION

5 Conservative Settler Parties

SOUTH AFRICA

RHODESIA

ISRAEL

THE CONSERVATIVES DURING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

KULTURKAMPF

6 The Final Settlement

THE NEGOTIATIONS

RIPENESS

COMMITMENT

CONSOCIATIONALISM

RULES

Expansion

Conflict Policy and Negotiations

Afterword

Bibliographic Essay

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-149) and index.

ISBN:

9798400669767

9780313010996

0313010994

OCLC:

614673233