The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

Richard Hargy

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Abstract

The George W. Bush administration’s intervention in Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2007 was decisive and remains undervalued and misunderstood. Throughout this time the US State Department determined American involvement in the region with responsibility for strategy falling to two successive directors of the Policy Planning Staff: Richard Haass and Mitchell Reiss. This essay demonstrates how the sources and operations of these men’s decision-making authority enabled the US to intercede as a third-party actor with the results being pivotal to the restoration of devolution in May 2007. State Department control of US involvement in Northern Ireland points to a manner of US intervention that I posit as assertive unilateralism.
Original languageEnglish
JournalIrish Journal of American Studies
Issue number11
Publication statusPublished - 10 May 2022

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