Widely regarded as the most authoritative and most cited academic study of the Northern Ireland conflict, arguing it is best explained as an ethno-national contest over sovereignty between rival nationalist and unionist political communities, tracing its roots through the plantation of Ulster, the failure of successive British state-building projects, and the democratization that mobilized mass nationalist and unionist politics from the 1880s onward, rather than as a doctrinal religious dispute.
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McGarry and O'Leary are political scientists at Queen's University Belfast and Pennsylvania, and this book, together with their later The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements, is the field's standard reference and the consociational settlement's own intellectual framework; it is the leading modern statement of the ethno-national, as against the religious, reading of the conflict. Citation
AuthorJohn McGarry and Brendan O'Leary
PublisherBlackwell Publishers, Oxford
Publication Year1995
Source Typeacademic monograph
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