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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II - Control (Paperback)
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II - Control (Paperback)
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The second volume of the definitive political history of Northern
Ireland. 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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