Posted on behalf of John Coakley This blog presents the arguments from a paper in the special issue of IPS ‘Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland’ . Available here  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07907184.2013.874999 The last years of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first were marked by a steady but little noticed redefinition of the…

Posted on behalf of Paul Gillespie This blog presents the arguments from a paper in the special issue of IPS ‘Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland’, available here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07907184.2013.875001 The transformation of British-Irish relations from dependence to interdependence from the 1960s to the 2000s occurred in an international setting dominated by both states’ membership of the…