Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies: Rethinking Northern Ireland and South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032119878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Opis

Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies examines what happened to Northern Ireland and South Africa after their miraculous political settlements in the 1990s, in which comparison between the two cases played a small but significant role.

Recenzje

"Adrian Guelke has written an important book comparing the peace settlements and political transformations in Northern Ireland and South Africa. He goes about the task in distinctive fashion, tracing the history of comparison of the two cases and the intermittent linkages between them, while highlighting the changing international context… He argues that Northern Ireland and South Africa are two deeply divided societies, with deep set horizontal inequalities, and politicisation of social divisions. But their settlements differed radically, with different sorts of problems and different roles for reconciliation."

Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin, Ireland, writing in Irish Political Studies, 2023

“This book provides a synthesis of the valuable contributions that Professor Guelke has made to the study of modern South Africa and Northern Ireland.  It is lucidly written and will be of use to students and scholars alike.”

Robert McNamara, Ulster University, UK, writing in Utafiti 18, 2023

Spis treści

1. A Brief History of the Comparison  2. Overcoming Intractable Conflicts  Part I: Northern Ireland  3. Implementation  4. Consolidation  5. External Challenges  Part II: South Africa  6. Reconciliation  7. Party Battles  8. Internal Challenges  Part III: Comparison  9. Framing the Cases  10. Conclusion  Postscript: Desmond Tutu and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

O autorze

Adrian Guelke is Professor Emeritus in Comparative Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He is attached to the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. He edited Nationalism and Ethnic Politics from 2010 to 2018.