Northern Ireland and European integration: A historical analysis of divergent nationalist discourses

Anne Martin

No 171/2021, IPE Working Papers from Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE)

Abstract: The legacy of colonialism in Northern Ireland has created an ideological divide between Irish nationalism and British unionism through which many questions of political economy are sorted, including questions of conflict, peace and European integration. This paper examines and considers how divergent nationalist discourses surrounding European integration have developed in Northern Ireland throughout history. This divergence can be linked to the fundamentally different and conflicting historical understandings these nationalist projects have of identity, borders and governance.

Keywords: European integration; Northern Ireland; nationalism; borders; discourse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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