A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
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北爱尔兰论文，第三卷
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2019
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B. O’Leary
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B. O’Leary
奥利里对北爱尔兰历史及其当前前景的权威论述确实是独一无二的。他首先深入探讨了最近冲突的规模，并解释了为什么北爱尔兰最近是二十世纪西欧政治暴力发生率最高的地区。第一卷展示了殖民历史在解释当前集体心态、机构和敌对仇恨方面的显着性，最终对 1920 年岛屿分割进行了独特的比较描述。这位出生于爱尔兰的政治学家用三十五年的时间掌握了相关的史学，对爱尔兰共和主义和阿尔斯特工会主义发展的重要时刻进行了新鲜的论述。第二卷展示了阿尔斯特统一主义者如何临时建立一个独特的控制体系，因为他们害怕被英国宗主国抛弃，他们对爱尔兰民族主义统一主义的焦虑，以及他们继承的定居者殖民文化。英国的政治机构被用来组织对权力的持续政治垄断，并瓦解天主教文化少数群体。与此同时，爱尔兰自由邦从受限制的自治领自治转向主权共和独立，导致了南方的全面政治非殖民化。然而，爱尔兰的国家建设是有代价的：它进一步疏远了阿尔斯特统一主义者，而北方民族主义者则感到被抛弃。第三卷揭示了其后果，并将读者带到了现在，解释了北爱尔兰于 1998 年完成的独特的联合解决方案，以及随后的动荡和目前处于危险之中的实施。本书最后对欧盟联盟和爱尔兰联盟的前景进行了评估，生动地探讨了英国脱欧后可能出现的可行未来。
O’Leary’s authoritative treatment of the history of Northern Ireland and its current prospects is genuinely unique. Beginning with an in-depth account of the scale of the recent conflict, he sets out to explain why Northern Ireland recently had the highest incidence of political violence in twentieth-century western Europe. Volume 1 demonstrates the salience of the colonial past in accounting for current collective mentalities, institutions, and rivalrous animosities, culminating in a distinct comparative account of the partition of the island in 1920. The major moments in the development of Irish republicanism and Ulster unionism are freshly treated by this Irish-born political scientist who has spent thirty-five years mastering the relevant historiography. Volume 2 shows how Ulster Unionists improvised a distinctive control system, driven by their fear of abandonment by the metropolitan power in Great Britain, their anxieties about Irish nationalist irredentism, and their inherited settler colonial culture. British political institutions were exploited to organize a sustained political monopoly on power and to disorganize the cultural Catholic minority. At the same juncture, the Irish Free State’s punctuated movement from restricted dominion-level autonomy to sovereign republican independence led to the full-scale political decolonization of the South. Irish state-building had a price, however: it further estranged Ulster Unionists, and Northern nationalists felt abandoned. Volume 3 unpacks the consequences and takes the reader to the present, explaining Northern Ireland’s distinctive consociational settlement, accomplished in 1998, and its subsequently turbulent and currently imperiled implementation. An assessment of the confederation of European Union and the prospects for an Irish confederation close the book, which vividly engages with feasible futures that may unfold from the UK’s exit from the EU.