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Explaining Northern Ireland? The limitations of the ethnic conflict model

Cillian McGrattan

National Identities, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 181 - 197

Swansea University Author: Cillian McGrattan

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/14608941003764836

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This article claims that while the concept of ethno-nationalism may be taken as shorthand for describing what appear to be the dominant features of certain political conflicts, it possesses little explanatory value – instead obscuring and confusing more than it reveals. Using the Northern Ireland ca...

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ISSN: 1460-8944 1469-9907
Published: 2010
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