The Northern Ireland conflict: consociational engagements

Abstract

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 of Writings by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary on Irish Politics, 1985-2003