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Guelke

Professor Adrian Guelke

Emeritus Professor 

Email: a.guelke@qub.ac.uk


Research Interests

My principal interest is in the politics of deeply divided societies, most particularly the cases of South Africa and Northern Ireland. Although I have done some work on each as individual cases, I have an especial interest in comparison of deeply divided societies and any role that comparison has played in their politics. In the past I have done a considerable amount of work on political violence both in deeply divided societies and more widely. This led me to carry out a study of terrorism, a subject that also fits into my interest in the international dimensions of internal conflicts, crossing the boundaries between International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Recent/Selected Publications

  • Politics in Deeply Divided Societies (Polity Press, March 2012). Details can be downloaded here 
  • 'Global watersheds and the study of ethno-politics' in Adrian Guelke and Jean Tournon (eds), The Study of Ethnicity and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments (Barbara Budrich Publishers 2012) Details can be downloaded here
  • ‘The potency of external conflict management: Northern Ireland’ in Stefan Wolff and Christalla Yakinthou (eds), Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice (Routledge 2012).
  • 'Lessons of Northern Ireland and the Relevance of the Regional Context', LSE IDEAS Special Report, SR008 - Northern Ireland, November 2011. Details can be downloaded here
  • Editor, The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism: Case Studies in Identity Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)
  • ‘A consociational democracy or Anglo-Irish conflict management? The St Andrews Agreement and the political accommodation of Irish nationalism’ in André Lecours and Luis Moreno (eds), Nationalism and Democracy: Dichotomies, complementarities, oppositions (Routledge 2010)
  • ‘Northern Ireland: communal division and the embedding of paramilitary networks’ in David Martin Jones, Ann Lane and Paul Schulte (eds), Terrorism, Security and the Power of Informal Networks (Edward Elgar 2010)
  • ‘South Africa: The Long View on Political Transition’ in John Coakley (ed.), Pathways from Ethnic Conflict: Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies (Routledge 2010)
  • ‘The flexibility of Northern Ireland Unionists and Afrikaner Nationalists in comparative perspective’, IBIS working paper no.99 (University College Dublin 2010)
  • ‘Approaches to the Control of Ethnic Conflict in the post-Cold War World’, Ethnopolitics Papers No.4 (Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, October 2010)
  • ‘South Africa: The Long View on Political Transition’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.15, Nos.3-4, July-December 2009
  • The New Age of Terrorism and the International Political System (IB Tauris, 2009)
  • Consociational Theory and the wider peace process in Rupert Taylor (ed.), Consociational Theory: McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland conflict (Routledge 2009)
  • (with John Doyle) Northern Ireland in Radha Kumar (ed.), Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies: A Set of Simulations (SAGE India 2009)
  • The United States and the Peace Process in Brian Barton and Patrick J. Roche (eds), The Northern Ireland Question: The Peace Process and the Belfast Agreement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
  • ‘Negotiations and Peace Processes’ in John Darby and Roger Mac Ginty (eds), Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, Peace Processes and Post-War Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan 2008)
  • ‘Israeli Flags Flying Alongside Belfast’s Apartheid Walls: A New Era of Comparisons and Connections’ in Guy Ben-Porat (ed.), The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process? A Comparative Analysis of Peace Implementation in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
  • ‘Great whites, paedophiles and terrorists: the need for critical thinking in a new age of fear’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Vol.1, No.1, April 2008
  • ‘The Lure of the Miracle? The South African Connection and the Northern Ireland Peace Process’ in Christopher Farrington (ed.), Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Implementing the Political Settlment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) ~ book arising out of ESRC project 
  • ‘The Northern Ireland Peace Process and the War against Terrorism: Conflicting Conceptions?’, Government and Opposition, Vol.42, No.3, Summer 2007
  • Terrorism and Global Disorder: Political Violence in the Contemporary World (IBTauris, 2006)
  • Co-editor, A Farewell to Arms?: Beyond the Good Friday Agreement ( Manchester University Press, 2006)
  • Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: South Africa and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
  • Editor, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict: Advancing Peace in Deeply Divided Societies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)