Terrorism's laboratory : the case of Northern Ireland

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Terrorism's laboratory : the case of Northern Ireland

edited by Alan O'Day

Dartmouth Pub. Co., c1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, nationalism has posed a threat to international stability and the integrity of individual nation states. While the troubles in Northern Ireland have only slightly intruded on the world stage outside the British Isles, many of the issues raised are pertinent to international affairs, and, in particular, offer a laboratory for analysing ethnic conflict. The premiss of this book is that the Northern Ireland case offers an important testing ground for the management, suppression and voluntary cessation of ethnic violence. Contributors are drawn from a variety of backgrounds, religions and ideological perspectives, and present analyses of the "troubles" rather than promoting solutions. Articles are included on the IRA strategy, loyalist violence, the Ulster Defence Association, and ideological perspectives. All assess the adaptive nature of the people and organizations actually participating in the struggle. Each study shows the strength and limitations of political initiatives. Collectively they reveal the "troubles" in Northern Ireland as evolutionary rather than static, and offer varying degrees of encouragement for the containment or cessation of ethnic violence.

Table of Contents

  • The dilemma of political terrorism in Northern Ireland, Alan O'Day
  • the suffering people and the threatened community - two traditions of political violence in Ireland, D. George Boyce
  • the spatial distribution of political violence in Northern Ireland, Michael Poole
  • policing Northen Ireland - attitudinal evidence, A.M. Gallagher
  • women and the Northern Ireland conflict, Valerie Morgan
  • education and the conflict in Northern Ireland, Seamus Dunn and Alan Smith
  • the Provisional IRA - reorganization and the Long War, Charles Drake
  • Northern Ireland - reappraising Loyalist violence, Steve Bruce
  • "Not a game of Cowboys and Indians" - the Ulster Defence Association in the 1990s, James W. McAuley
  • Irish republicanism - containment or new departure, Ronnie Munck
  • the convergence of Orange and Green socialism, Richard Davis
  • the liberal dilemma - challenging and respecting the hearts and minds of the community, Clem McCartney
  • holding fire - strategic theory and the missing military dimension in the academic study of Nothern Ireland, M.L.R. Smith.

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