{"id":2390,"date":"2020-09-29T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:34:50","slug":"breaking-peace-brexit-and-northern-ireland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/29\/breaking-peace-brexit-and-northern-ireland-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Peace &#8211; Brexit and Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/507\/cochrane-feargal\">Feargal Cochrane<\/a>, Emeritus Professor of International Conflict Analysis in the School of Politics and International Relations, focusses on how Brexit brought contested identities back into the centre-stage of political debate in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>His book, titled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526142559\/\">Breaking Peace \u2013 Brexit and Northern Ireland<\/a>\u2019 (Manchester University Press), examines how Brexit transformed the Irish border into more than a legal and territorial demarcation, making the point that following the 2016 Brexit referendum the border became an existential marker of national identity as well as a reminder of the dark days of violent conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Cochrane reveals the effect Brexit has had on political stability in Northern Ireland, why the Irish Border became such a stumbling block in UK Brexit negotiations and the implications Brexit has for the Good Friday Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from Feargal Cochrane, Emeritus Professor of International Conflict Analysis in the School of Politics and International Relations, focusses on how Brexit brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/29\/breaking-peace-brexit-and-northern-ireland-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}