Unionisms in Times of Change

ISBN-13: 9781032043760 / Miękka / 2023 / 204 str.

Opis

Unionisms in Times of Change: Brexit, Britain and the Balkans focusses on these two faces of unionisms: the flexible alternative to the nation state, and the assertor of central power.

Spis treści

Introduction: Unionisms in times of change: Brexit, Britain, Northern Ireland and the Balkans

Jennifer Todd and Dawn Walsh

1. Unionisms and the challenges of change

Jennifer Todd

2. Choosing between unions? Unionist opinion and the challenge of brexit

John Coakley

3. The DUP and the European Union: from contestation to conformance and back again …

Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed

4. Same but different? The Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party compared

Jonathan Tonge, Máire Braniff, Thomas Hennessey, James W. McAuley and Sophie A. Whiting

5. Public attitudes to different possible models of a United Ireland: evidence from a citizens’ assembly in Northern Ireland

John Garry, Brendan O’Leary, John Coakley, James Pow and Lisa Whitten

6. The fragility of unions: the United Kingdom and Moldova

Dawn Walsh

7. Imposed unions and imperfect states: the State Union of Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in comparative perspective

Soeren Keil

8. Symbolic right-sizing and Balkan nationalisms: the Macedonia name dispute and the Prespa Agreement

Neophytos Loizides

9. Unionisms in the UK’s Brexit crisis

Paul Gillespie

O autorze

Jennifer Todd is Research Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. She researches on ethnicity, identity, and conflict. Her recent publications include Identity Change after Conflict (Springer 2018) and with John Coakley Negotiating Settlement in Northern Ireland (1969-2019) (Oxford 2020).

Dawn Walsh is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. Her work has been published in several academic journals and she is the author of two books.