Tonge, Jonathan
Northern Ireland
The book:
- assesses the motivations and campaigns of the IRA, UVF and UDA and other armed groups
- discusses what each paramilitary group achieved through violence
- analyses the continuing controversies surrounding the Northern Irelands dirty war
- outlines the extent of collusion between British security forces and loyalist paramilitaries
- explores how governments and political parties shaped the peace process
- scrutinizes prospects for the political development of unionism and nationalism within a devolved power sharing framework
- examines whether the sectarian divide is strengthening or weakening
- concludes by assessing whether Northern Ireland can move permanently from violence and instability to become a normal peaceful polity, in which the war is merely a historic relic
Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, Northern Ireland combines incisive analysis, original research and a lucid style to provide an important assessment of what has been described as an 800 year old problem.
Keywords: raged; northern ireland; three; troubles; accounting; fatalities; civilians; book; jonathan; conflict; reasons; groups; postconflict; prospects; motivations; ira; surrounding; paramilitary; controversies, Sociology Special Topics, Sociology Special Topics
- Author(s)
- Tonge, Jonathan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Hot Spots in Global Politics
- Page amount
- 272 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745657455
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745631417