Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780192887535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str.

Profess Niall (Professor of Political Science and Sociology

Recenzje

[This] important new book… takes us through the twists and turns in this secret diplomacy, with particular attention directed towards three initiatives - the first in 1975-76, the second in 1981 and the third in 1990-91 - when the British government and Provisional Irish Republican Army 'initiated back-channel contacts aimed at a peaceful compromise. 'O Dochartaigh tells a very compelling story ...[and] he offers us a rare glimpse into… a missing dimension of the Northern Ireland conflict.

O autorze

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has published extensively on the Northern Ireland conflict and on mediation, peace negotiations, and territorial conflict. Previous publications include the co-edited books Political Violence in Context (ECPR Press 2015), Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (Routledge 2017), and a seminal study of the Northern Ireland conflict: Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles(Palgrave Macmillan 2005). He was a founding convener of the Standing Group on Political Violence of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI).