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Uncommon Ground: Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy
In Jerusalem, Ireland, Kosovo, and Kashmir, indivisible territory
underlies much of international conflict. I argue whether or not territory
appears indivisible depends on how actors legitimate their claims to
territory during negotiations. Although actors choose their legitimations
strategically, in order to gain a political advantage at the bargaining
table, legitimation strategies have unintended structural consequences: by
resonating with some actors and not others, legitimations either build
ties between coalitions and allow each side to recognize the legitimacy of
each other's claims, or else lock actors into bargaining positions
where they are unable to recognize the legitimacy of their opponent's
demands. When the latter happens, actors come to negotiations with
incompatible claims, constructing the territory as indivisible. I apply
this legitimation theory to Ulster, arguing this territory's
indivisibility was not inevitable, but a product of actors'
legitimation strategies as they battled for support over the issue of
Ireland's right to self-rule.For
comments on this article, I thank Fiona Adamson, Tim Crawford, Consuelo
Cruz, Ron Hassner, Jeff Herbst, Robert Jervis, Robert Keohane, Ron Krebs,
Paul MacDonald, Daniel Nexon, John Padgett, Dan Reiter, Jack Snyder,
Monica Toft, two anonymous reviewers, as well as participants in a seminar
at the John M. Olin Institute at Harvard University. In addition, the John
M. Olin Institute, the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, and
the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern
California all provided support for this project.
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American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America’s foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that it is based on an interrogation of American, British and Irish archives, and covers over one hundred years of American, Irish and British relations through the post of the American consular official while also uncovering the consul’s role in seminal events such as the War of 1812, the 1845-51 Irish famine, the American Civil War, Fenianism and mass Irish emigration. It is a history of the men who filled posts as consuls, vice consuls, deputy consuls and consular agents. It reveals their identities, how they interpreted and implemented US foreign policy, their outsider perspective on events in both Ireland and America and their contribution to the expanding transatlantic relationship.The work intersects diaspora studies, emigration history and diplomatic relations as well as illuminating the respective Irish-American, Anglo-Irish and Anglo-American relationships.
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Irish Nationalist and Republican Attitudes to the Good Friday Agreement: Sell-Out or Steppingstone?
This article examines attitudes across Irish republicanism and nationalism to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA). The research draws on qualitative interviews conducted between 2009–2018, throughout the nationalist and republican spectrum, charting evolving attitudes across this green base. Interviewees include GFA negotiators, including the SDLP, a key architect of the Agreement, and Sinn Féin, the party that went on to claim ownership of the GFA. Interviews were also conducted with dissident Irish republicans who have never accepted the GFA. This article puts a particular focus on nationalist and republican attitudes to armed actions in pursuit of Irish unity. Further, it examines attitudes across the Irish republican/nationalist spectrum to a potential border-poll, resulting from the central principle of the GFA (consent); and analyses positions on the required 50 % plus one for Irish unity.
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James Joyce's Liebestod : Fascism as Civil War
The ending of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake rewrites the Liebestod , or love-death aria, at the end of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde . Joyce's parody of the Liebestod replaces the fascist myth of national redemption with endless cycles of love and suffering in history. The novel's circularity thereby forms a riposte to the redemption narrative in fascist politics. Joyce's composition and revision of Finnegans Wake from 1922, during the Irish Civil War, to 1939, when he left Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation, illustrate how he understood racial, sexual, and bourgeois desires in nationalism through an artistic trope like the Liebestod , and how he used it to narratively resist the seemingly teleological ascent of fascism in Europe. Further, civil war provides a model for parodying the ideology of racial supremacy by casting it as an attack on one's countrymen and kin.
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Milton, toleration, and nationhood
\"John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on Early Modern literature and the development of the early nation-state\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'Martial Law Travels': Gothic Internationalism and Irish Nationalist Newspapers
In the nineteenth century, Irish newspaper culture became more experimental in nature. The form of Irish nationalist newspapers as an assemblage of various registers and genres embodied the politics of Irish nationalism and anti-colonialism in the period. These media innovations, as well as the forms of writing disseminated, transformed again during the Great Famine in Ireland (1846–51). During and after the Famine, the gothic was mobilized in newspaper columns, often in service of producing critiques of empire. Examining Irish newspaper writing on famine in India and on the Morant Bay Rebellion, this essay argues that engagement with the gothic in the anti-colonialist press in Victorian Ireland allowed for the emergence of powerful and distinctly internationalist critiques of colonial capitalism and its violent apparatuses.
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