Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019

John Coakley is a Fellow of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. Recent publications include Nationalism, Ethnicity and the State: Making and Breaking Nations (Sage, 2012), Reforming Political Institutions: Ireland in Comparative Perspective (IPA, 2013), Breaking Patterns of Conflict: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Question (co-edited, Routledge, 2015), Non-Territorial Autonomy in Divided Societies: Comparative Perspectives (edited, Routledge, 2017) and Politics in the Republic of Ireland (co-edited, 6th ed., Routledge, 2018).Jennifer Todd is a Fellow of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. She has been Fernand Braudel visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (2016) and is presently Fellow of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. She is co-author of the classic Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (Cambridge, 1996), and recent publications include Identity Change after Conflict: Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands (Palgrave 2018), and jointly edited volumes on Ethnicity and Religion (Routledge, 2011); Breaking Pattens of Conflict (Routledge 2015).

• 1: Introduction: Defining Moments in the British-Irish Relationship2: The Sunningdale Agreement, 19733: The Anglo-Irish Agreement, 19854: The Downing Street Declaration and Framework Documents, 1993-955: The Good Friday Agreement, 1998: Negotiation6: The Good Friday Agreement, 1998: Implementation7: Conclusion: Benchmarks from the British-Irish Process

A valuable, timely, and important book. Based on first-hand sources, the volume rightly stresses the long-term complexity of an extraordinary process.