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This article is an exploratory application of exchange theory to selective aspects of the British-lrish relationship as it evolved from 1921 to 1941. Conceptions of national status & their constitutional manifestation were central to both internal governmental authority & external relations with & within the British Empire. We are not suggesting that national status questions regarding full independence & territorial unity were necessarily more powerful than economic & strategic concerns, such as defense costs arising from participation in war, or economic costs associated with Irish unification. Instead, our more modest claim is that conceptions of national status are also decisive & should not be dismissed because they are less easy to quantify. They are important because a precondition for consensual conflict regulation is the recognition of a degree of conceptual status-parity ie, the perceived value & legitimacy of the national status of the other. For intergovernmentalism, relative parity creates potential or mutualist exchanges instead of the debilitating consequences of one-sided exertions of power associated with control regimes & overly rigid, statist, "nationalizing" projects. Adapted from the source document.

The power of political structures has a specific internal dynamic. On the basis of this power, the members may pretend to a special 'prestige,' and their pretensions may influence the external conduct of the power structures. Experience teaches that claims to prestige have always played into the origin of wars…The realm of 'honour,' which is comparable to the 'status order' within a social structure, pertains also to the interrelations of political structures. (Max Weber, Ch. 6 'Structures of Power' in Gerth, H.H. and Mills, C.W. 1946 From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology).