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| List of boxes | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter outline | |
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| A study guide | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict | |
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| The ethno-national conflict | |
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| The concept of identity in Northern Ireland | |
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| Marxist accounts | |
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| The colonial interpretation | |
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| Consociational theory | |
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| Background to the Conflict | |
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| The historical context | |
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| Home Rule and partition | |
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| The Stormont regime | |
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| The civil rights movement | |
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| Onset of 'the Troubles' | |
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| Communal divisions | |
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| Political Parties and Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland | |
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| Ulster Unionist Party | |
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| Democratic Unionist Party | |
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| Social Democratic and Labour Party | |
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| Sinn Fein | |
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| Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | |
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| Progressive Unionist Party | |
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| Republican paramilitaries | |
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| Loyalist paramilitaries | |
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| Finding a Solution: from Sunningdale to the Framework Documents | |
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| Introduction of direct rule | |
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| Sunningdale Agreement and Executive 1973-4 | |
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| Rolling devolution 1982 | |
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| Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 | |
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| Brooke-Mayhew talks 1991-2 | |
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| Downing Street Declaration 1993 | |
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| Framework Documents 1995 | |
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| British and Irish Government Policy | |
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| The British Government: cause of the conflict or neutral arbiter? | |
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| The British Government and republicanism | |
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| The British Government and unionism | |
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| The Irish Government: the irredentism claim | |
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| The 'pan-nationalist front' | |
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| The Irish Government and unionism | |
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| British and Irish convergence | |
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| Peace Process to Good Friday Agreement | |
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| From negotiations to a deal | |
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| The Good Friday Agreement: an 'historic' deal | |
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| Support for the Agreement | |
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| Opposition to the Agreement | |
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| Institutional Framework of the Agreement | |
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| The Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| The Executive | |
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| North-south cooperation | |
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| East-west relations | |
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| The decommissioning stalemate | |
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| Police reform | |
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| Towards Restored Devolution | |
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| Devolution in the UK | |
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| Suspension and stalemate | |
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| Review of the Agreement | |
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| St Andrews Agreement 2006 | |
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| Northern Ireland Assembly election March 2007 | |
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| Return to power sharing | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |