The Northern Ireland Conflict - Consociational Engagements
McGarry, John Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy Queens University Ontario Canada
O'Leary, Brendan Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926657-9
doi:10.1093/0199266573.003.0007
 

7 The Conservative Stewardship of Northern Ireland 1979–97: Sound-bottomed Contradictions or Slow Learning?
John McGarry
Brendan O'Leary
The chapter gives an evaluation of the inconsistencies in the conservatives' approach to Northern Ireland under Prime ministers Thatcher and Major. It applauds the Conservatives eventual recognition that intergovernmental cooperation with Dublin was essential to the successful management of the conflict - even if it took some ministers nearly two decades to relearn what Conservative prime minister Heath had appreciated in 1973.
Keywords: integration, devolution, sovereigntism, intergovernmentalism, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Margaret Thatcher, John Major
doi:10.1093/0199266573.003.0007
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1 Introduction: Consociational Theory and Northern Ireland
2 The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Folly or Statecraft?
3 The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism in Northern Ireland
4 Comparing Northern Ireland
5 Five Fallacies: Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of Liberalism
6 The Labour Government and Northern Ireland, 1974–9
7 The Conservative Stewardship of Northern Ireland 1979–97: Sound-bottomed Contradictions or Slow Learning?
8 Political Settlements in Northern Ireland and South Africa
9 The Nature of the Agreement
10 Globalization, European Integration, and the Northern Ireland Conflict
11 ‘Democracy’ in Northern Ireland: Experiments in Self-rule from the Protestant Ascendancy to the Good Friday Agreement
12 The Protection of Human Rights under the Belfast Agreement
13 The Politics of Policing Reform in Northern Ireland
Bibliography
Index
 
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