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The merits of consociation as a means of solving the Northern Ireland conflict are presented through contrasting it with other ways of stabilizing highly divided political systems. Why voluntary consociation has been unsuccessful in Northern Ireland and unfortunately is likely to remain so is explained. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) must be understood against the background of the failure of previous consociational experiments. The AIA partly represented a shift in British strategy from voluntary to coercive consociationalism. The prospects for this coercive consociational strategy and variants on it are evaluated.Irish history is something Irishmen should never remember, and Englishmen should never forget.

Comparing the evidence of London and Paris reorganizations in the last three decades confirms that political interventions are often autonomous of administrative or class logic. Reorganizations are not mere registers of the subterranean workings of socio‐economic forces. However, the reorganizations show that these political interventions are not autonomous from the characteristics of their respective political systems.

Jon Elster has made the story of Ulysses and the Sirens a central motif in his philosophical odyssey. In Elster's philosophy a paradigm of imperfectly rational behaviour is to bind yourself against the mast, as a precaution against the predictable weakness of your will which would otherwise leave you ensnared by the sirens. The use of literary analogies is frequent in Elster's work, whether he is Explaining Technical Change or Making Sense of Marx. Consequently it is not inappropriate to describe Elster's own intellectual wanderings as an odyssey. Unlike Joyce's Ulysses there is no trace in Elster of a predilection for scatological subjects, nor any danger of unreadability. But there is a similar technical and stylistic range, and a comparable breadth in intellectual debts, acquired from journeying through Western culture with several languages. Elster, like Joyce, is also crowned with the ability to make an artistic whole out of apparently disparate materials.

Analyse des britisch-irischen Abkommens vom 15.11.1985 über Nordirland unter den Gesichtspunkten seiner verfassungsrechtlichen Bedeutung, der Gründe für die Unterzeichnung, der zwischenzeitlichen Ergebnisse, der Überlebenschancen und der Unterstützungswürdigkeit. Das Abkommen formalisiert die zwischenstaatliche Kooperation (auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt der inneren Sicherheit), beendet die Vorherrschaft der Unionisten und deren Vetomöglichkeit gegen die Formulierung einer bestimmten Politik in Nordirland, bindet die Irische Republik an ein verfassungsmäßiges Verfahren zur Wiedervereinigung und trägt zur Beendigung der nationalistischen Ausprägung der irischen Politik bei. (AuD-Hng)

Constitutional significance; interim evaluation up to July 1986.