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University College Dublin Press After the Good Friday Agreement: Analysing Political Change in Northern Ireland: Analysing Political Change in Northern Ireland
This work analyzes the changes in Northern Ireland which produced and have followed from the Good Friday Agreement. It aims to show the impact of the Agreement and offers a theoretical understanding of the processes and forces at work in making and implementing the Agreement.
£21.00
University College Dublin Press Europe's Old States and the New World Order: The Politics of Transition in Britain,France and Spain: The Politics of Transition in Britain,France and Spain
Much attention has been paid to globalization, yet little has been focused on the relationship between the national and sub-national levels of politics. This publication has separate sections on the state in transition; on regionalism, nationalism and separatism; and on the security forces and the maintenance of order. The three states chosen - Britain, France and Spain - have historical similarities as ex-imperial, Atlantic seaboard states with weighty historical and institutional traditions. But they also differ in their institutions, in their centre-periphery relations and in their varying responses to the new phase of change. The authors assess the new constitutional configurations in each state - decentralisation, devolution or autonomous governments - and analyse the effect on the peripheries and the maintenance of order. The book also includes chapters on conflict in Northern Ireland and the Spanish Basque country and discussion of nationalist identity and assertion in the three countries.
£21.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History
The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume fundamental differences between "western" and "eastern" Europe, including the now largely abandoned distinction between a "western" nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an "eastern" one, defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, "more distant" nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."
£55.80
