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Contested Borders: Globalization and Ethnonational Conflict in Ireland

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  • Liam O'Dowd

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ANDERSON J. and O'DOWD L. (1999) Contested borders: globalization and ethno-national conflict in Ireland, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. The Irish state border provides an interesting case study of interrelationships between the sharpened borders of ethno-national conflict and the more permeable borders of the European Single Market. It highlights the interplay of state and ethno-national borders. It links questions often associated with the violent proliferation of borders in Eastern Europe with questions concerning the impact of European integration and other forms of globalization on borders in western Europe. The paper is divided into three main sections: (1) an outline of the origins and characteristics of a border which was imposed by an alliance between an imperial state and a cohesive ethno-national bloc in 1921, and subsequently consolidated by state building in Ireland, and by the growing significance of European state borders between the 1920s and the 1960s; (2) an analysis of how globalization and ethno-national division have interacted over the last 30 years to pose a major challenge to the 1921 border settlement; and (3) an assessment of how the recent Belfast Agreement (1998) has sought to utilize new opportunities afforded by globalization, including European integration, to underpin an accommodation between the two ethno-national groups and their conflicting territorial claims. The paper concludes by assessing how the Irish case illuminates the interactions between globalization and national conflict, and how these interactions are reshaping state borders. It considers the conditions under which the reconfiguration of state borders might help resolve or moderate national conflicts and the opposing territorial claims associated with them. ANDERSON J. et O'DOWD L. (1999) Des frontieres disputees: la mondialisation et le conflit ethnonational en Irlande, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. La frontiere irlandaise fournit une etude de cas interessante de la correlation entre les limites marquees du conflit ethnonational et les frontieres plutot permeables du marche unique. On souligne l'interaction des frontieres d'Etat et ethnonationales. On etablit un lien entre les problemes qui se rapportent souvent a la proliferation violente des frontieres de l'Europe orientale et les problemes relatifs a l'impact de l'integration europeenne et des autres formes de la mondialisation sur les frontieres de l'Europe occidentale. L'article est divise en trois parties: primo une esquisse des origines et des caracteristiques d'une frontiere imposee en 1921 par une alliance entre un etat imperial et un bloc ethnonational ferme qui, par la suite, fut renforcee par la construction de l'Etat irlandais et par l'importance accrue des frontieres des Etats europeens entre les annees 1920 et les annees 1960; secundo une analyse de comment l'interaction de la mondialisation et de la division ethnonationale au cours des dernieres trente annees a fini par lancer un defi majeur a la delimitation de la frontiere en 1921; et tertio une evaluation de l'Accord de Belfast (1998) quant aux nouvelles possibilites offertes par la mondialisation, y compris l'integration europeenne, afin d'etayer l'adaptation des deux groupes ethnonationaux a leurs revendications territoriales opposees. Pour conclure, l'article evalue comment l'etude de cas irlandaise eclaircit l'interaction de la mondialisation et du conflit national, et comment cette interaction finisse par une nouvelle de ´limitation des frontieres nationales. On considere les conditions prealables a une nouvelle de ´limitation des frontieres nationales qui pourraient aider a resoudre ou a attenuer les conflits nationaux et les revendications territoriales opposees qui en decoulent. ANDERSON J. und O'DOWD L. (1999) Umstrittene Grenzen: Globalisation und ethno-nationaler Konflikt in Irland, Reg. Studies 33 , 681-696. Die irische Staatsgrenze stellt eine interessante Fallstudie der wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen den starker betonten Grenzen ethnonationalen Konflikts und den durchlassigen Grenzen des gemeinsamen europaischen Marktes dar. Sie hebt das Zuammenspiel von ethno-nationaler und Staatsgrenze hervor. Sie verknupft Fragen, die die Auswirkung der europaischen Integration, die oft mit der gewaltsamen Vermehrung von Grenzen in Osteuropa in Verbindung gebracht werden, mit Fragen, die die Auswirkung der europaischen Integration und anderer Formen der Globalisierung auf Grenzen in Westeuropa betreffen. Dieser Aufsatz besteht aus drei Hauptteilen: (1) einem Umriss der Entstehung und typischen Merkmale einer Grenze, die 1921 von der Allianz einer Grossmacht mit einem zusammenhangenden, ethnonationalen Block erzwungen, und danach durch die Errichtung eines Staates in Irland sowie die zunehmende Signifikanz der europaischen Staatsgrenzen im Zeitraum zwischen den zwanziger und den sechziger Jahren dieses Jahrhunderts gefestigt wurde; (2) einer Analyse, wie Globalization und ethno-nationale Trennung sich im Laufe der letzten dreissig Jarhe auf einander ausgewirkt haben, so dass sie nun eine betrachtliche Herausforderung fur das Grenzabkommen von 1921 darstellen; und(3)einer Einschatzung der Bemuhungen im kurzlich getroffenen Belfaster Abkommen (1998), sich Moglichkeiten zunutze zu machen, die Globalisierung, einschliesslich europa ¨ischer Integration, bietet, um eine U bereinkunft zwischen den beiden ethno-nationalen und ihrenwiderspruchlichen Gebietsanspruchenzuuntermauern. Der Aufsatz schliesst mit einer Beurteilung, wie der Fall Irland die Wechselwirkung zwischen Globalisation und nationalem Konflikt erhellt, und wiediese Wechselwirkungen Staatsgrenzen umformen Er betrachtet die Bedingungen, unter denen die Umgestaltung der Staatsgrenzen dazu beitragen konnte, nationale Konflikte und die damit einhergehenden widerspruchlichen Gebietsanspruche zu losen oder zu mildern.

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  • James Anderson & Liam O'Dowd, 1999. "Contested Borders: Globalization and Ethnonational Conflict in Ireland," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(7), pages 681-696.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:33:y:1999:i:7:p:681-696
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409950078710
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