1. Introduction; 2. Constructing indivisibility: a legitimation theory of indivisible territory; Part I. Constructing an Indivisible Ireland: 3. Home rule: a divisible Ireland; 4. Ulster will fight: the orange card and an indivisible Ireland; Part II. Jerusalem, the Eternal, Indivisible City: 5. Dividing the holy city; 6. Jerusalem, indivisible; 7. How Northern Ireland became divisible (and why Jerusalem has not); Conclusion.
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that territorial conflicts in Jerusalem and Northern Ireland were inevitable.
Stacie Goddard is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a faculty associate in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, she was a Fellow at the Belfer Center, a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and a Fellow at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University and the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Theory, and the European Journal of International Relations.
'Stacie Goddard's book makes a sophisticated contribution to the
literature on legitimacy in international politics and takes an
especially significant step forward in bridging rationalist and
constructivist approaches to international conflict and
cooperation. Goddard deftly uses network theory to develop
hypotheses about the effects of legitimation rhetoric on
bargaining, and she provides a pathbreaking articulation of the
causal mechanisms at work in the process by which certain
territories come to be seen as indivisible.' Mlada Bukovansky,
Smith College
'Decision-makers, negotiators, and students of Middle East politics
should take heed as Goddard pulls away the religious veil obscuring
the Jerusalem dispute. Her compelling and meticulously researched
analysis shows that this conflict, like the violence over Northern
Ireland, is not God-made but very much man-made.' Ron Hassner,
University of California, Berkeley
'I find Goddard's theory about the construction of indivisible
territory very convincing. Its major strength lies in bridging the
gap between rational choice and constructivist theories by managing
to deal with values and identity while taking into account the
element of agency … I think it gives an important contribution to
the debate about ethnic conflicts and their solutions. Nations and
Nationalism
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