Between Conflict and Peace: An Analysis of the Complex Consequences of the Good Friday Agreement

John Nagle

doi:10.1093/pa/gsx030

Between Conflict and Peace: An Analysis of the Complex Consequences of the Good Friday Agreement

John Nagle

Sociology

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Abstract

In the two decades since signing, the GFA continues to generate acrimonious debate over whether it has brought about sustainable peace or fomented weak and sectarian governance institutions. In this article, I review the formation and outworking of the GFA. In so doing, I go beyond either/or analyses of the GFA to identify the complex forms of political agency it has generated not necessarily envisioned by the Agreement’s architects. I draw particular attention to the ways in which the central support beams of the Agreement – consociationalism and Europeanisation – have gradually become weakened to threaten the sustainability of power–sharing institutions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	395-416
Number of pages	22
Journal	Parliamentary Affairs
Volume	71
Issue number	2
Early online date	3 Sep 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx030
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

Keywords

Good Friday Agreement
Northern Ireland
Consociationalism
Brexit
Devolution

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Parliamentary Affairs following peer review. The version of record John Nagle; Between Conflict and Peace: An Analysis of the Complex Consequences of the Good Friday Agreement, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 2, 1 April 2018, Pages 395–416, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx030.
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