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Introduction : the comparable Northern Ireland / John McGarry -- Northern Ireland : consociation or social transformation? / Rupert Taylor -- Comparative political science and the British-Irish Agreement / Brendan O'Leary -- The Northern Ireland Agreement : clear, consociational, and risky / Donald L. Horowitz -- Northern Ireland, civic nationalism, and the Good Friday Agreement / John McGarry -- Unsung heroes? The role of peace and conflict resolution organizations in the Northern Ireland conflict / Feargal Cochrane -- From conflict to agreement in Northern Ireland : lessons from Europe / Antony Alcock -- Northern Ireland and the Basque Country / Michael Keating -- Making the transition from hegemonic regime to power-sharing : Northern Ireland and Canada in historical perspective / S.J.R. Noel -- Northern Ireland and island status / Adrian Guelke -- Taking the gun out of politics : conflict transformation in Northern Ireland and Lebanon / Kirsten E. Schulze -- Northern Ireland and South Africa : 'hope and history at a crossroads' / Padraig O'Malley -- The tenability of partition as a mode of conflict regulation : comparing Ireland with Palestine-Land of Israel / Sammy Smooha

AbstractLijphart's classical consociational theory, developed between the 1960s and 1975, was based largely on the experience of four western European cases. He argued that the success of consociations depended on the preparedness and ability of elites to cooperate, and that the prospects for success were facilitated by the presence of certain historical and structural factors, including a tradition of accommodation and a "multiple balance of power". In the past forty years or so, consociations have been implemented, or attempted, in a number of places quite unlike the classical cases. This article argues that a satisfactory explanation of the performance of the new consociations requires consideration of three dimensions additional to those described in Lijphart's classical account. These are, respectively, the i) external dimension; ii) the security dimension; and iii) the self‐determination dimension.

AbstractWhen the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia broke apart, several prominent academics argued that this was because they were federations (or 'ethno‐federations' as they put it). This article uses Walker Connor's magnum opus on Marxist–Leninist strategy and practice in communist states to show the flaws in these analyses. Connor's work shows that it is more plausible to link the fate of the three communist states to their anti‐federalist practices than to the fact that they were formally federal.

Most assessments of power-sharing institutions focus on their functionality, that is, on their prospects for delivering peace, stability, and prosperity. This article focuses instead on the prior question of "adoptability," that is, on whether particular power-sharing institutions can be accepted (agreed to) in the first place. While the adoptability question is scarcely touched on in the academic literature, it is just as important as the functionality question, as it hardly matters whether an institution is functional if it is not adoptable. The article examines the adoptability question through a close-up look at the negotiations in Cyprus. The evidence from there suggests that consociational power sharing is more likely to be adoptable than centripetal power sharing in contexts where agreement is needed.