The Politics of Antagonism

Brendan O’Leary is Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. John McGarry is Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy.

Introduction
1. Auditing the Antagonism
2. The Colonial Roots of Antagonism: Fateful Triangles in Ulster, Ireland, and Britain, 1609-1920
3. Exercising Control: The Second Protestant Ascendancy, 1920-2
4. Losing Control: The Collapse of the Unionist Regime, 1963-72
5. Deadlock, 1972-85: The Limits to British Arbitration
6. The Meaning(s) and Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement: An Experiment in Coercive Consociationalism
7. The Impact of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985-9: The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism
8. Transcending Antagonism? Resolving Northern Ireland in the 1990s
9. Epilogue: The Brooke Initiative and After, 1990-
10. Postscript: A Tract of Time between War and Peace
11. Addendum: War about Talks, and Talks about War, February-March 1996
Glossary
Bibliography
Subject Index
Names Index