The British and peace in Northern Ireland : the process and practice of reaching agreement /
How did the British government and civil service shape the Northern Ireland peace process? What kinds of tensions and debates were being played out between the two governments and the various parties in Northern Ireland? Addressing texts, negotiations, dialogues, space, leverage, strategy, ambiguity...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The terrain of discourse
- 2. The Anglo-Irish Agreement: an interview with Sir David Goodall and Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
- 3. The constitutional issue in Irish politics
- 4. Negotiations and positions: an interview with Sir John Chilcot
- 5. Resolving inter-communal conflict: some enabling factors
- 6. Tactics, strategy and space
- 7. The joint declaration and memory
- 8. Movement and transition in 1997: Major to Blair
- 9. The challenge of symmetry in dialogue: an interview with Sir Joseph Pilling
- 10. Why was the Good Friday Agreement so hard to implement? Lessons from Groundhog Day, 1998-2002
- 11. Text and context: an interview with William Fittall
- 12. The nature of dialogue: an interview with Sir Jonathan Phillips
- 13. Managing the tensions of difference: an interview with Jonathan Powell.