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US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
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Richard Hargy
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss, as autonomous diplomats in the George W. Bush State Department, were able to alter US intervention in Northern Ireland and play critical roles in the post-1998 peace process. Their contributions have not been fully appreciated or understood. The restoration of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government in 2007 was made possible by State Department-led intervention in the peace process. There are few references to Northern Ireland in work examining the foreign policy legacy of the George W. Bush presidency. Moreover, the ability to control US foreign policy towards the region brought one of George W. Bush’s Northern Ireland special envoys into direct diplomatic conflict with the most senior actors inside the British government. This book will uncover the extent of this fall-out and provide original accounts on how diplomatic relations between these old allies became so fraught.
Author / Editor information
Richard Hargy is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen’s University Belfast.
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eBook ISBN:
9781526184634
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eBook ISBN:
9781526184634
Keywords for this book
diplomacy; George W. Bush; Good Friday Agreement; Mitchell Reiss; Northern Ireland; Richard Haass; special relationship; St Andrew’s Agreement; state department; United States
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
