Theories of international relations and Northern Ireland / Timothy J. White. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Timothy Jerome, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northern Ireland--Foreign relations.

Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1998-.

Peace-building--Northern Ireland.

Peace-building.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Using the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations, this work looks at the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating work of leading scholars, it explores a range of topics, including the function of deception in promoting peace, the question of partition and how it was reimagined by nationalists such as John Hume, and how the decommissioning process led to a role in internal policing for paramilitaries. The influence of outside actors - notably the US and the EU - is also considered, along with the involvement of the Catholic Church and the marginalisation of women. The book is for academics interested in theories of international relations and to a wider public interested in understanding the Northern Ireland peace process.

Contents:

Cover

Theories of International Relations andNorthern Ireland

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction: Timothy J. White

1 The 'real' and 'dirty' politics of the Northern Ireland peace process: a constructivist realist critique of idealism and conservative realism: Paul Dixon

2 Issues, leaders, and regimes: reaching settlement in Northern Ireland: Andrew P. Owsiak

3 Under the gun: Northern Ireland's unique history with DDR: Carolyn Gallaher

4 Assessing the importance of ideas and agency in the Northern Ireland peace process: P. J. McLoughlin

5 The role of licit and illicit transnational networks during the Troubles: Devashree Gupta

6 Gender, International Relations theory, and Northern Ireland: Máire Braniff and Sophie Whiting

7 'A serious moral question to be properly understood': Catholic human rights discourse in Northern Ireland in the 1980s: Maria Power

8 Northern Ireland and the EU: applying a theory of multi-level governance: Mary C. Murphy

9 Peace and the private sector: Northern Ireland's regional experience of globalised trends: Katy Hayward and Eoin Magennis

10 Assessing external funding supports for the Northern Ireland peace process: Sandra Buchanan

11 Cooperation theory and the Northern Ireland peace process: Timothy J. White

12 Responsibility, justice, and reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Cillian McGrattan

Conclusion: Northern Ireland and International Relations theory: Timothy J. White

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 3, 2017).

ISBN:

1-5261-2418-1