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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II - Control (Hardcover)
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II - Control (Hardcover)
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This landmark synthesis of political science and historical
institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic
majoritarianism. Northern Ireland was coercively created through a
contested partition in 1920. Subsequently Great Britain compelled
Sinn Fein's leaders to rescind the declaration of an Irish
Republic, remain within the British Empire, and grant the Belfast
Parliament the right to secede. If it did so, a commission would
consider modifying the new border. The outcome, however, was the
formation of two insecure regimes, North and South, both of which
experienced civil war, while the boundary commission was subverted.
In the North a control system organized the new majority behind a
dominant party that won all elections to the Belfast parliament
until its abolition in 1972. The Ulster Unionist Party successfully
disorganized Northern nationalists and Catholics. Bolstered by the
'Specials,' a militia created from the Ulster Volunteer Force, this
system displayed a pathological version of the Westminster model of
democracy, which may reproduce one-party dominance, and enforce
national, ethnic, religious, and cultural discrimination. How the
Unionist elite improvised this control regime, and why it collapsed
under the impact of a civil rights movement in the 1960s, take
center-stage in this second volume of A Treatise on Northern
Ireland. The North's trajectory is paired and compared with the
Irish Free State's incremental decolonization and restoration of a
Republic. Irish state-building, however, took place at the expense
of the limited prospect of persuading Ulster Protestants that Irish
reunification was in their interests, or consistent with their
identities. Northern Ireland was placed under British direct rule
in 1972 while counter-insurgency practices applied elsewhere in its
diminishing empire were deployed from 1969 with disastrous
consequences. On January 1 1973, however, the UK and Ireland joined
the then European Economic Community. Many hoped that would help
end conflict in and over Northern Ireland. Such hopes were
premature. Northern Ireland appeared locked in a stalemate of
political violence punctuated by failed political initiatives.
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