Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process: In Defence of Politics

Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process: In Defence of Politics
ISBN-10
3319913433
ISBN-13
9783319913438
Category
Political Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2018-06-15
Publisher
Springer
Author
Paul Dixon

Description

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.

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