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Anglo-Irish agreement: 25 years on / Aughey, Arthur; Gormley-Heenan, Cathy

Gormley-Heenan, Cathy	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article examines the surprisingly muted commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It was surprising because not only was the Agreement a major innovation in relations between the two states but it was also the defining political issue in Northern Ireland for almost a decade. It is argued that the significance of the Agreement has been diminished because of retrospective narratives which serve the political convenience of the key parties to the Northern Ireland conflict. The article adapts Oakeshott's notion of the 'dry wall' to re-assess and to re-state the Agreement's place in recent history.

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Northern Ireland ; Anglo-Irish Agreement ; Historical Change ; Political Narrative

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ID: 093993

Knowledge and empire: the social sciences and United States imperial expansion / Nugent, David

Nugent, David	Journal Article
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2010.

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This paper focuses on the relationship between the social sciences in the U.S. and the formation of empire. I argue that the peculiar way the U.S. has established a global presence during the 20th century-by establishing a commercial empire rather than territorially-based colonies-has generated on the part of state and corporation an unusual interest in the knowledge produced by social scientists. It has also generated an unusual willingness on their part to subsidize the production of that knowledge. Not only have government and corporation considered the social sciences essential to the project of managing empire. At each major stage in the reorganization of that empire state and capital have underwritten a massive reorganization in the production of social science knowledge.

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Social Sciences ; Empire ; Geographies of Knowledge ; Expertise ; Historical Change

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Transformation at the margins: Imperial expansion and systemic change in world politics / Mulich, Jeppe

Mulich, Jeppe	Journal Article
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Taking the phenomenon of empire as its starting point, this article seeks to provide a framework for addressing the question of how and why international systems change over time. Synthesising elements from network-relational analysis and practice theory, I argue that international systems are best thought of as being composed of multiple partially overlapping and interrelated hierarchical networks. These networks are made up of social ties – as in classic network analysis – but also of specific repertoires of practice. Systemic transformations happen through the reconfiguration of networks, both through shifts in social ties and through changes in their practices. Empire provides a particularly illuminating window into the topic of systemic change, in part because a major driver of historical transformations has been the expansion of empires and their encounters with other heterogeneous polities across the globe, and in part because a focus on imperial interactions highlights the limitations of existing unit-centric perspectives. Drawing on examples from the nineteenth century, I illustrate the usefulness of the framework by showing how different regionally anchored systems came into contact with the expanding spheres of Western empires and how such points of interaction contributed to the development of an increasingly global international system.

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Colonialism ; Empire ; International Systems ; Historical Change ; Practice Theory ; Relationalism

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