1st Edition
Unionisms in Times of Change Brexit, Britain and the Balkans
Introduction: Unionisms in times of change: Brexit, Britain, Northern Ireland and the Balkans
Jennifer Todd and Dawn Walsh
1. Unionisms and the challenges of change
Jennifer Todd
2. Choosing between unions? Unionist opinion and the challenge of brexit
John Coakley
3. The DUP and the European Union: from contestation to conformance and back again …
Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed
4. Same but different? The Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party compared
Jonathan Tonge, Máire Braniff, Thomas Hennessey, James W. McAuley and Sophie A. Whiting
5. Public attitudes to different possible models of a United Ireland: evidence from a citizens’ assembly in Northern Ireland
John Garry, Brendan O’Leary, John Coakley, James Pow and Lisa Whitten
6. The fragility of unions: the United Kingdom and Moldova
Dawn Walsh
7. Imposed unions and imperfect states: the State Union of Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in comparative perspective
Soeren Keil
8. Symbolic right-sizing and Balkan nationalisms: the Macedonia name dispute and the Prespa Agreement
Neophytos Loizides
9. Unionisms in the UK’s Brexit crisis
Paul Gillespie
Biography
Jennifer Todd is Research Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. She researches on ethnicity, identity, and conflict. Her recent publications include Identity Change after Conflict (Springer 2018) and with John Coakley Negotiating Settlement in Northern Ireland (1969-2019) (Oxford 2020).
Dawn Walsh is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Institute for British-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. Her work has been published in several academic journals and she is the author of two books.
