Joana Etchart, Community Relations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland

In this rich and dense work, Joana Etchart, a senior lecturer at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, aims at producing a comprehensive analysis of community relations policy in Northern Ireland, a crucial public policy during the Troubles.In a long introduction (p. 1-30), Etchart first explains how complex and elusive the very notion of community relations is as it covers different and sometimes conflictual meanings. For certain analysts the notion of community relations justifies

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