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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Progressive or regressive? the Anglo-Irish agreement as a dynamic in the Northern Ireland polity.
AU - Cochrane, Feargal
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This article seeks to compare unionist and nationalist attitudes to the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA), in an effort to determine whether the Agreement has had a positive or negative impact upon the Northern Ireland community. It will be argued that viewed through narrow criteria the Agreement has achieved some success, but that its longer-term objectives of securing peace and inter-communal toleration are no closer to being realised today than they were in November 1985. A central theme within the text is that institutional frameworks such as the AIA are often unable to maintain their original strategic objectives due to the essentially reactive nature of government.
AB - This article seeks to compare unionist and nationalist attitudes to the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA), in an effort to determine whether the Agreement has had a positive or negative impact upon the Northern Ireland community. It will be argued that viewed through narrow criteria the Agreement has achieved some success, but that its longer-term objectives of securing peace and inter-communal toleration are no closer to being realised today than they were in November 1985. A central theme within the text is that institutional frameworks such as the AIA are often unable to maintain their original strategic objectives due to the essentially reactive nature of government.
U2 - 10.1080/07907189308406505
DO - 10.1080/07907189308406505
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Irish Political Studies
JF - Irish Political Studies
SN - 0790-7184
IS - 1
ER -