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Auteur: Paul Dixon
Taal: Engels
Pagina's: 316
Publicatiedatum: 11 februari 2019

Samenvatting

¿Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.¿ (Professor Timothy White, Xavier University, USA)
¿Paul Dixon has produced an impressive and challenging book. Dixon defends the Northern Ireland peace process as a carefully-crafted, drawn-out episode in realist, pragmatic politics. However, he pulls few punches in highlighting the moral deceptions which have kept the process in play. Provocatively, Dixon also challenges a wide range of academic interpretations of the processes and their associated political prescriptions. Thoughtful and well-researched throughout, Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process is an essential read for anyone interested in conflict management.¿ (Professor Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool)
¿In this outstanding book, Dixon shows yet again the importance of the theatrical metaphor for Northern Ireland. More importantly still, he demonstrates that the adoption of a critically realist outlook actually enhances our capacity to think creatively about the political choices we face in international politics and the alternative policies and institutions we might construct.¿ (Professor Adrian Little, The University of Melbourne)
This book is exceptional in defending the ¿dirty politics¿ of the Northern Ireland peace process. Political actors in Britain, Ireland and the United States performed the peace process and used ¿political skills¿, often including deception and hypocrisy, in order to wind down the conflict and achieve accommodation. These political skills, it is argued, are often morally justifiable even as they are popularly condemned. The Northern Ireland peace process has been highly successful in reducing violence and an accurate understanding of its politics is an important contribution to international debates about managing conflict.

In het kort

¿Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Nort...

Specificaties

Auteur
Paul Dixon
Uitgever
Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Taal
Engels
Aantal pagina's
316
Ondertitel
In Defence of Politics
Formaat
Paperback
Publicatiedatum
11 februari 2019
ISBN
9783030082307

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