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 language | English |
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Journal | Irish Journal of American Studies |
Issue number | 11 |
Publication status | Published - 10 May 2022 |
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The United States Department of State and Northern Ireland 2001 – 2007: how the bureaucratic dynamics of an executive branch of the federal government affected American intervention in the peace process.
Hargy, R. (Author), McLoughlin, P. (Supervisor) & English, R. (Supervisor), Jul 2023Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy