US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland / Richard Hargy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hargy, Richard, author.

Series:

Key studies in diplomacy.

Key Studies in Diplomacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northern Ireland--History--1998-.

Northern Ireland.

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

United States--Foreign relations--Northern Ireland.

United States.

Northern Ireland--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Richard Hargy is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen’s University Belfast

Summary:

This book revises our understanding of US intervention in Northern Ireland, 2001-2007. Within the context of 9/11 and America's subsequent response, this work will reveal the vital role played by the George W. Bush administration in the region and why this was critical to the restoration of the Good Friday Agreement's institutions in May 2007.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Bill Clinton administration and Northern Ireland, 1993-2001

2. The US Department of State

3. The anomalous nature of US diplomacy: Northern Ireland within the State Department

4. The Policy Planning Staff: Avoiding trivia for over sixty years

5. The unilateralist pivot of the George W. Bush administration: 9/11, foreign wars, and Northern Ireland

6. The State Department’s Northern Ireland envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

7. Mitchell Reiss: The unsung hero of peace

8. The State Department, Northern Ireland, and the fallacy of the Special Relationship

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8461-3

1-5261-8463-X

OCLC:

1520577030