Brendan O'Leary

PUBLICATIONS
Books/Collections

1. 2007 (with Marianne Heiberg and John Tirman
(eds.) TERROR, INSURGENCY AND THE STATE: ENDING PROTRACTED CONFLICTS (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 499.

2. 2005 (with John McGarry and Khaled Salih)
(eds.) THE FUTURE OF KURDISTAN IN IRAQ
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press),
pp. 355.

3. 2004. (with John McGarry) THE NORTHERN
IRELAND CONFLICT: CONSOCIATIONAL
ENGAGEMENTS (Oxford: Oxford University
Press), pp. 434.

4. 2001. (with Ian S. Lustick and Tom Callaghy)
editors. RIGHT-SIZING THE STATE: THE POLITICS
OF MOVING BORDERS (Oxford: Oxford
University Press), pp. 429.

5. 1999. (with John McGarry). POLICING
NORTHERN IRELAND: PROPOSALS FOR A NEW
START. pp. 146 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press).

6. 1996 / 1993. (with John McGarry). THE POLITICS
OF ANTAGONISM: UNDERSTANDING NORTHERN
IRELAND. London & Atlantic Heights, N.J.:
Athlone, pp 358. Second and updated edition:
1996. [Short-listed for the Ewart-Biggs
Memorial prize 1994, and commended by the
judges].

7. 1995. (with John McGarry). EXPLAINING
NORTHERN IRELAND: BROKEN IMAGES. Oxford,
England, Cambridge, Mass: Basil Blackwell, pp.
533. Reprinted twice. 2nd edition under
preparation.

8. 1995. (with John McGarry), editors. STATE OF
TRUCE: NORTHERN IRELAND AFTER TWENTYFIVE
YEARS OF WAR. Special Issue of Ethnic and
Racial Studies. 18, 4, pp. 166.

9. 1993. (with Tom Lyne, Jim Marshall, and Bob
Rowthorn). NORTHERN IRELAND: SHARING
AUTHORITY. London: Institute of Public Policy
Research, pp.155.

10. 1993. (with John McGarry), editors. THE
POLITICS OF ETHNIC CONFLICT REGULATION:
CASE STUDIES OF PROTRACTED ETHNIC
CONFLICTS. London & New York: Routledge,
pp. 321.

11. 1990. (with Patrick Dunleavy and R.A.W.
Rhodes), editors. PRIME MINISTER, CABINET,
AND CORE EXECUTIVE. Public Administration.
68, 1, pp. 140.

12. 1990. (with) John McGarry, editors. THE
FUTURE OF NORTHERN IRELAND. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp 376. Foreword by Arend
Lijphart.

13. 1990. editor. JACK WATSON'S WORLD HISTORY
SINCE 1945. London: John Murray, pp. 545.

14. 1989. THE ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION:
ORIENTAL DESPOTISM, HISTORICAL
MATERIALISM, AND INDIAN HISTORY. Oxford
and New York: Basil Blackwell, pp. 394.
Foreword by Ernest Gellner. [Selected as one of
202 central works of sociology in the 20th
century in the digest Schlüsselwerke der
Soziologie, eds. S. Papcke & G.W.
Oesterdiekhoff (eds.) (Berlin: Westdesutscher
Verlag, 2001, pp. 372-4)]

15. 1987. (with Patrick Dunleavy). THEORIES OF THE
STATE: THE POLITICS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
London and New York: Macmillan and Meredith
Press, pp. 382. Reprinted 8 times. [Chinese
Translation, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Romanian
and Arabic translations].

Books in preparation/under contract

1. (with John McGarry) UNDERSTANDING
NORTHERN IRELAND: COLONIALISM, CONTROL,
CONSOCIATION, 2008 (Routledge).

2. (with John McGarry) EXPLAINING NORTHERN
IRELAND 2nd edition, 2008 (Blackwell)

3. (with John McGarry). HOW STATES MANAGE
NATIONS, (project funded by USIP).

4. THE BELFAST AGREEMENT: THE SECOND PEACE
BY ORDEAL (Oxford University Press).

5. NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION (Oxford
University Press).

Articles in Journals

1. 2007-8. (in press). Analyzing Partition:
Definition and Explanation, Political
Geography. ****

2. 2007-8 (in press). (with John McGarry) ‘The
Integration-Accommodation Debate: An
Outline’, International Journal of Comparative
Law, also published in summary form as a policy
paper by the EDG Group and Rights and
Democracy (Canada), Montreal 2007.

3. 2007-8 (in press). (with John McGarry): “Must
Pluri-National Federations Fail?, Ethnopolitics.

4. 2007. ‘Iraq’s Future 101. The Failings of the
Baker-Hamilton Report’, Strategic Insights, VI,
2 (March).
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2007/Mar/o%27l
earyMar07.asp, also ‘On the Baker-Hamilton
Report’, Democratiya, 8, Spring, 2007,
http://www.democratiya.com

5. 2007.‘Cuttlefish, Cholesterol and Saoirse:
Review Article on Richard English, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland’,
Field Day Review, 3: March-April, 3: 187-204.

6. 2006. ‘Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Danish
Cartoons, Islamist Fraud, and the Rights of the
Ungodly’, International Migration, 44 (5): 22-
33.

7. 2006 (with John McGarry). ‘Consociational
Theory, Northern Ireland’s Conflict and its
Agreement: Part 1. What Consociationalists Can
Learn from Northern Ireland’, Government &
Opposition: An International Journal of
Comparative Politics, 41, 1: 43-63.

8. 2006 (with John McGarry). ‘Consociational
Theory, Northern Ireland’s Conflict and its
Agreement: Part 2. What Critics of Consociation
Can Learn from Northern Ireland’, Government
& Opposition: An International Journal of
Comparative Politics, 41, 2: 249–277.

9. 2005. ‘Mission Accomplished? Looking Back at
the IRA’, Field Day Review (March-April), 1,1:
216-46.

10. 2005. (with Bernard Grofman and Jorgen Elklit),
‘Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio
Allocation in Multi-Party Executive Bodies:
Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark’,
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 49,
No. 1 (January), pp. 198–211.

11. 2004. (with John McGarry). ‘Stabilizing the
Northern Ireland Agreement’, Political
Quarterly, 75, 3 (July-September), 213-225.

12. 2003. ‘Consociation: Refining the Theory and a
Defense’. International Journal of Diversity in
Organizations, Communities and Nations 3: 693-
755.

13. 2003. ‘Engagements in Comparative Politics:
Kant, Machiavelli, the Webbs & Us’. APSA-CP
Newletter 14: 19—22.

14. 2003. ‘Status Quo Patriotism’, New Left Review,
2nd series, 23 (Sept-Oct), 100-4.

15. 2002. ‘In Praise of Empires Past: Myths and
Method of Kedourie’s Nationalism’, New Left
Review 2nd series, 18 (Nov-Dec), 106-30.

16. 2002. (with Paul Mitchell and Geoffrey Evans)
‘The 2001 Elections in Northern Ireland:
Moderating ‘Extremists’ and the Squeezing of
the Moderates’, Representation, 39, 1: 23-36.

17. 2001. ‘The Protection of Human Rights under
the Belfast Agreement’, Political Quarterly 72
(3 (July-September)): 353-65.

18. 2001. (with Paul Mitchell and Geoffrey Evans)
‘Northern Ireland: Flanking Extremists Bite the
Moderates and Emerge in Their Clothes.’
Parliamentary Affairs 54(4): 725-742.

19. 2001. ‘An Iron Law of Nationalism and
Federation? A (neo-Diceyian) theory of the
Necessity of a Federal Staatsvolk, and of
Consociational Rescue. The 5th Ernest Gellner
Memorial Lecture’. Nations and Nationalism 7
(3): 273-96.

20. 2000. (with Geoffrey Evans) ‘Northern Irish
Voters and the British-Irish Agreement:
Foundations of a Stable Consociational
Settlement?’ Political Quarterly, 71, 1 (January-
March), 78-101.

21. 1999. ‘The Nature of the Agreement’. Fordham
Journal of International Law 22, 4:1628-67.

22. 1999. ‘The Nature of the British-Irish
Agreement’ New Left Review 233: 66-96.

23. 1999. ‘The 1998 British-Irish Agreement:
Consociation Plus’ Scottish Affairs No. 26, 1-22
(Winter).

24. 1998. ‘The Implications for Political
Accommodation in Northern Ireland of
Reforming the Electoral System for the
Westminster Parliament’, Representation, 35, 2-
3: 106-113.

25. 1997. ‘The Conservative Stewardship of
Northern Ireland 1979-97: Sound-Bottomed
Contradictions or Slow Learning?’ Political
Studies 45, 4: 663-76.

26. 1997. (with Geoffrey Evans). ‘The 1997
Westminster Election in Northern Ireland: La Fin
de Siècle, The Twilight of the Second Protestant
Ascendancy and Sinn Féin’s Second Coming’
Parliamentary Affairs, 50, 4: 672-80.

27. 1997. ‘On the Nature of Nationalism: A Critical
Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on
Nationalism’. British Journal of Political
Science 27 (2): 191-222.

28. 1997. (with Geoffrey Evans). ‘Frameworked
Futures: Intransigence and Flexibility in the
Northern Ireland Elections of May 30 1996’.
Irish Political Studies, 12, pp. 23-47.

29. 1997. (with Geoffrey Evans). ‘Intransigence and
Inflexibility on the Way to Two Forums. The
Elections to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum
May 1996 and Public Opinion’. Representation
34, 3-4: 208-18.

30. 1996. (editor of) ‘Symposium on David Miller’s
On Nationality’, Nations and Nationalism, 2, (3),
including item below,

31. 1996. ‘Insufficiently liberal and insufficiently
nationalist’. Nations and Nationalism 2 (3): 444-
452.

32. 1996. (with John McGarry). ‘Proving our Points
on Northern Ireland (and giving reading lessons
to Dr Dixon)’. Irish Political Studies 11: 142-
154.

33. 1995. ‘Afterword: What is framed in the
Framework Documents?’ Ethnic and Racial
Studies 18 (4): 862-72.

34. 1995. ‘Introduction: Reflections on a Cold
Peace’. Ethnic and Racial Studies 18 (4): 695-
714.

35. 1995. (with John McGarry). ‘Five Fallacies:
Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of
Liberalism’. Ethnic and Racial Studies 18 (4):
837-61.

36. 1994. (with John McGarry). ‘The Political
Regulation of National and Ethnic Conflict’.
Parliamentary Affairs 47 (1): 94-115.

37. 1993. ‘Affairs, Partner Swapping and Spring
Tides: The Irish General Election of 1992’. West
European Politics 16 (3).

38. 1992. ‘Public Opinion and Northern Irish
Futures’. Political Quarterly 63 (2): 143-70.

39. 1992.‘What are Public Lawyers For?’ Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies 12 (3): 404-18.

40. 1991. ‘An Taoiseach. The Irish Prime Minister’.
West European Politics 14 (2): 131-62.

41. 1990. ‘Solving Northern Ireland?’
Contemporary Record 4 (1 & 2): 19-22 & 8-11.

42. 1990. (with Patrick Dunleavy and George Jones).
‘Prime Ministers and the Commons: Patterns of
Behavior, 1868 to 1987’. Public Administration
68 (1): 123-40.

43. 1990. (with John McGarry). ‘Northern Ireland's
Future: What is to be done?’ Conflict Quarterly
10 (2): 42-62.

44. 1990. (with John Peterson). ‘Further
Europeanization and Realignment. The Irish
General Election of June 1989’. West European
Politics 13 (1): 124-36.

45. 1990. ‘Setting the Record Straight: A Comment
on Cahill's Country Report on Ireland’.
Governance 3 (1): 98-104.

46. 1989. ‘The Limits to Coercive
Consociationalism in Northern Ireland’.
Political Studies 37 (4): 452-68.

47. 1987. ‘The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Folly or
Statecraft?’ West European Politics 10 (1): 5-
32.

48. 1987. ‘British Farce, French Drama, and Tales of
Two Cities: Reorganizations of Paris and
London Governments, 1957-86’. Public
Administration 65 (4): 367-89.

49. 1987. ‘The Odyssey of Jon Elster’. Government
& Opposition: An International Journal of
Comparative Politics 22 (4): 48-98.

50. 1987. ‘Towards Europeanization and
Realignment? The Irish General Election,
February 1987’. West European Politics 10 (3):
455-65.

51. 1987. ‘Why was the GLC abolished?’
International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research 11 (2): 193-217.

52. 1985. ‘Is There a Radical Public
Administration?’ Public Administration 63 (3):
345-52.

53. 1985. ‘Explaining Northern Ireland: A Brief
Study Guide’. Politics 5 (1): 35-41.

Chapters in Books

1. in press: ‘The Logic of Power-Sharing’, in Marc
Weller (ed) Title to be fixed, Volume 2,
Carnegie-ECMI Project on Resolving Self-
Determination Disputes.

2. in press. ‘Complex Power-Sharing in Northern
Ireland’, in Marc Weller (ed) Title to be fixed,
Volume 1, Carnegie-ECMI Project on Resolving
Self-Determination Disputes.

3. 2007 (May) “Federalizing Natural Resources in
Iraq’s Constitution”, in David Malone. Ben
Roswell, and Markus E. Bouillon (eds.) Iraq:
Preventing a New Generation of Conflict
(Boulder, Co: Lynne Reinner), pp. 189-202.

4. 2007. (with John Tirman), “Introduction:
Thinking About Terrorism, Insurgency and
States” in Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O’Leary
and John Tirman (eds.) Terror, Insurgency and
the State (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press), pp. 1-17.

5. 2007. “The IRA” in Marianne Heiberg, Brendan
O’Leary and John Tirman (eds.) Terror,
Insurgency and the State (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press), pp. 189-227.

6. 2007. (with Andrew Silke), “Conclusion.
Understanding & Ending Persistent Conflicts:
Bridging Research and Policy” in Marianne
Heiberg, Brendan O’Leary and John Tirman
(eds.) Terror, Insurgency and the State, pp. 387-
426 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press).

7. 2007. (with John McGarry), “Stabilizing
Northern Ireland’s Agreement”, in P.
Carmichael, C. Knox and R. Osborne (eds.)
Devolution and Constitutional Change in
Northern Ireland (Manchester: Manchester
University Press).

8. 2007. “Federation and Managing Nations”, in
Michael Burgess and John Pinder (eds.)
Multinational Federations (London: Routledge),
pp. 180-211.

9. 2005. “Foreword: The Realism of Power-
Sharing”, to Michael Kerr’s Imposing Power-
Sharing: Conflict and Co-existence in the
Lebanon (Dublin: Irish Academic Press).

10. 2005. ‘Debating Consociation: Normative and
Explanatory Arguments’. In From Power-
Sharing to Democracy: Post-Conflict Institutions
in Ethnically Divided Societies, edited by S. J. R.
Noel. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press.
etc