Global Change, Civil Society and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Subtitle: Implementing the Political Settlement (New Security Challenges)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230019959
Subjects: EU & European institutions; International relations; Peace studies; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Great Britain - General; Peace; Political Science / Peace; Foreign relations; Northern Ireland; Peace movements; Politics and government
Description: Despite the historic deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein in the spring of 2007, Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues, such as reform of the police service or the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons. Too frequently analyses have neglected to study the wider changes that have occurred inside and outside Northern Ireland and how these changes affect Northern Irish politics. Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process examines how some of these changes, including September 11th and the role of civil society, have had profound effects in changing attitudes towards violence, paramilitaries, the position of women and ideas of nationalism and sovereignty. This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wider, global context in order to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.