{"id":2394,"date":"2020-09-16T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:48:47","slug":"border-arrangements-higher-degree-of-agreement-between-unionist-and-nationalist-communities-in-northern-ireland-than-commonly-assumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/16\/border-arrangements-higher-degree-of-agreement-between-unionist-and-nationalist-communities-in-northern-ireland-than-commonly-assumed\/","title":{"rendered":"Border arrangements: higher degree of agreement between unionist and nationalist communities in Northern Ireland than commonly assumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2268\/morgan-jones-edward\"><strong>Edward Morgan-Jones<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Laura Sudulich<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/507\/cochrane-feargal\"><strong>Feargal Cochrane\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/522\/loizides-neophytos\"><strong>Neophytos Loizides\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>discuss the findings of research on\u00a0the opinions of the different communities of Northern Ireland about border arrangements. They find that the preferences of unionist and nationalist citizens were much more convergent than was apparent at the political party elite and governmental levels during the Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>As the most recent dispute about the practical implementation of the EU-UK withdrawal agreement\u00a0illustrates\u00a0the politics of Northern Irish border remains central to the politics and policymaking of Brexit. The question of whether physical and regulatory barriers are placed in the Irish sea between the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, or at the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is fraught and consequential.\u00a0Whatever arrangements policy makers settle on will have\u00a0implications\u00a0for the peace process, economy and wider politics and relations between the component parts of the UK and the EU<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/politicsandpolicy\/citizen-preferences-border\/Whatever%20arrangements%20policy%20makers%20settle%20on%20will%20have%20implications%20for%20the%20Northern%20Irish%20peace%20process,%20economy%20and%20wider%20politics%20and%20relations%20between%20the%20component%20parts%20of%20the%20UK%20and%20the%20EU\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/politicsandpolicy\/citizen-preferences-border\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Morgan-Jones,\u00a0Laura Sudulich,\u00a0Feargal Cochrane\u00a0and\u00a0Neophytos Loizides\u00a0discuss the findings of research on\u00a0the opinions of the different communities of Northern Ireland about border arrangements. They find that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/16\/border-arrangements-higher-degree-of-agreement-between-unionist-and-nationalist-communities-in-northern-ireland-than-commonly-assumed\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2395,"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\/2394"}],"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=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}