A Valuable Piece of the Liberal Hegemony Puzzle: the United States' Involvement in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Nedić, Pavle (2021) A Valuable Piece of the Liberal Hegemony Puzzle: the United States' Involvement in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The Review of International Affairs, LXXII (1182). pp. 27-46. ISSN 0486-6096

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Abstract

The conflict in Northern Ireland was resolved with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and with the great involvement of the Clinton administration. The paper explores how the United States (US) efforts in the Northern Ireland peace process contributed to the US grand strategy of liberal hegemony, approaching the subject from a realist perspective and using the method of a case study. It concludes that the Clinton administration saw the potential for a peaceful resolution of this conflict as an important part of its broader efforts to establish a liberal world order in the wake of the ending of the Cold War. This factor was a major motivation for the increased interest of the Bill Clinton administration. The positive outcome of the peace process, which was sponsored and mediated by the US, has become an important foundation for the justification of further engagementssupposed to contribute to the liberal hegemony that Clinton’s foreign policy aimed to construct.

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