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Northern Ireland's peace process brought an end to Europe's longest-running post war armed conflict, yet the reasons for its emergence and outcome remain contested. This book charts the origin and development of the attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. It examines these developments in the context of the time in which they occurred. Many criticisms have been levelled at the process and its outcome in recent years, and this work explore...

This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains the decisions that shaped the peace process in their proper context. O'Kane argues that although the outcome of the process can be seen as a success, it is not t...

This new study reveals how British and Irish governments not only had different reasons for co-operating, but also had different prescriptions for ending the conflict in Northern Ireland. Eamonn O'Kane shows how and why the two states were subject to demands and expectations from their 'client' communities in the North, had conflicting historical explanations for the problem and different domestic considerations to take into account. He argues...

Providing an in-depth analysis of the co-operation between Britain and Ireland, and the role that intergovernmental co-operation has played in the quest for a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict, this text offers a new explanation for the emergence and development of the peace process.