CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Mowbray, Jack David |
|---|---|
| Title | More of the Same or Critical Juncture? The Impact of Brexit on the Consociational Peace in Northern Ireland |
| Summary | The 1998 Belfast Agreement brought an end to the contemporary phase of the conflict in Northern Ireland, The Troubles. This has been followed by 18 years of a peace process that was designed to move the politics of the province past its deep ethnonational divide but instead has seen the steady rise of the DUP and Sinn Féin, exclusive nationalist parties. This polarisation towards the radical ideological poles has accelerated in both post-Brexit referendum elections of 2017. The political and social dislocation caused by the Brexit referendum has thrown the power-sharing institutions, established in the 1998 Belfast Agreement, into turmoil and the outcomes are unclear. The dominant approach to studying Northern Ireland presently is through the debate on consociational power-sharing as a prescription for a divided society. This study proposes to surmount the question of polarisation using a historic institutionalism approach that conceptualises both the Belfast Agreement and the Brexit referendum as critical junctures. Treating polarisation as a process with a long historical trajectory may prove more useful in understanding how the Belfast Agreement, regarded in some sense as a model peace process, has seemingly failed to foster integration or reconciliation between both radically exclusive nationalisms in Northern Ireland. |
| Supervisor | Pelinka, Anton and Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/mowbray_jack.pdf |
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