TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Leary,Brendan
TI  - A treatise on Northern Ireland
SN  - 9780198830573
AV  - DA990.U46 O44 2019
U1  - 941.6 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - International relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - 1968-1998
KW  - Relations
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - This landmark synthesis of political science and historical institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism. 0Northern 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.0In 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, and0cultural 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. 0The 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. 0Northern 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
ER  -