Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Role, Capacity and Effect

  • Authors
  • Cathy Gormley-Heenan
Book

Part of the St Antony’s Series book series

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 1-21
  3. Conceptualizing Political Leadership in Peace Processes
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 22-43
  4. Explaining Political Leadership in Northern Ireland
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 44-66
  5. The Role of Political Leadership
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 67-87
  6. The Capacity of Political Leadership
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 88-103
  7. The Effect of Political Leaders on Other Political Leaders
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 104-123
  8. The Limitations of Role, Capacity and Effect
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 124-146
  9. Conclusion: Towards a New Understanding of Political Leadership
    Cathy Gormley-Heenan
    Pages 147-156
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 157-200
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About this book

Introduction

By providing a critical interpretation of political leadership during the Northern Ireland peace process, Gormley-Heenan shows the 'leadership lens' offers insights not offered by conventional analyses of peacemaking processes. The book discusses the confusions, contradictions and chameleonic nature of leadership and its role, capacity and effect.

Keywords

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