Job Title

Professor of Political Studies

Organization

Queens University

Country

Canada

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
1. John McGarry and Michael Keating eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question (London: Routledge, 2006) pp ***.

2. Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih eds., The Future of Kurdistan and Iraq (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) pp 355

3. John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements (Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2004) pp. 445

4. Michael Keating and John McGarry eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) pp. 366

5. John McGarry, ed., Northern Ireland and the Divided World: The Northern Ireland Conflict and the Good Friday Agreement in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) pp.358

6. John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, Policing Northern Ireland: A New Start (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, March 1999) PP***.

7. Brendan O’Leary and John McGarry, The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press and Humanities Press, 1993. Second edition, 1996), pp. 358.

8, John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images (Oxford, England and Cambridge, Mass:Blackwell Press, 1995), pp. 533.

9, John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, eds., The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp.321.

10. John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, eds., The Future of Northern Ireland, (Oxford: Oxford Univ.Press, 1990), pp.376.

11. Brendan O’Leary and John McGarry, (guest editors), A State of Truce: Northern Ireland after Twenty-Five Years of War, Special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4, October 1995, pp. 190.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Iraq’s Constitution of 2005: Liberal Consociation as Political Prescription’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 5, no. 4, 2007. Special Issue, ‘Constitutionalism in Divided Societies’ (Sujit Choudhry, guest editor): **-**

John McGarry, ‘Asymmetry in Federations, Federacies and Unitary States. Ethnopolitics, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2007: 105-16.

John McGarry, ‘Asymmetrical Autonomy and Conflict Regulation: A Response to Adeney, Conversi, Hechter, and Rezvani’, Ethnopolitics, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2007: 133-36.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland’s Conflict, and its Agreement. 1. What consociationalists can learn from Northern Ireland’, Government and Opposition, January 2006: 43-63.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland’s Conflict, and its Agreement. 2. What critics of consociationalism can learn from Northern Ireland’, Government and Opposition, March 2006: 249-77.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Stabilising Northern Ireland’s Agreement’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 3, July-September 2004: 213-25.

John McGarry, ‘ ‘Democracy’ in Northern Ireland: experiments in self-rule from the Protestant Ascendancy to the Good Friday Agreement’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 8, 4, 2002: 451-74

John McGarry, ‘Police Reform in Northern Ireland’, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 15, 2000: 183-92.

John McGarry, ‘Political Settlements in Northern Ireland and South Africa’, Political Studies, 46, 5, December 1998: 853-70.

John McGarry, ‘“Demographic Engineering”: The State-directed Movement of Ethnic Groups as a Technique of Conflict Regulation’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 21, no.4, July 1998: 613-38.

John McGarry and Margaret Moore, ‘The Problems with Partition’, Politics and the Life Sciences. September 1997: 18-19.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Proving our Points on Northern Ireland’ (part of a debate on our book Explaining Northern Ireland), Irish Political Studies, Vol. 11, 1996: 142-54.

John McGarry, ‘Explaining Ethnonationalism: The Flaws in Western Thinking’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1996: 129-50.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Five Fallacies: Northern Ireland and the liabilities of liberalism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, Number 4, 1995: 837-61.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘The Political Regulation of National and Ethnic Conflicts’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1994: 94-115.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Northern Ireland's Future: What is to be done?’, Conflict Quarterly, Vol. 10, No.2, 1990: 236-60.

John McGarry, ‘Northern Ireland and the Option of Consociationalism’, Plural Societies, June, 1990: 1-20.

John McGarry and S.J.R. Noel, ‘The Prospects for Consociational Democracy in South Africa’, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1989: 1-22.

John McGarry, ‘The Anglo-Irish Agreement and Power-Sharing in Northern Ireland’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1988: 236-50.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (* = COMMISSIONED)

*In press: John McGarry, Brendan O’Leary and Richard Simeon, ‘Integration or Accommodation? The Enduring Debate in Conflict Regulation’, in Sujit Choudhry, ed., Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (chapter = 20,877 words)

*In press: John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Iraq’s Constitution of 2005: Liberal Consociation as Political Prescription’, in Sujit Choudhry, ed., Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

*In press: John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Consociation, Integration and post-Agreement Northern Ireland’, in Sujit Choudhry, ed., Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

*In press: John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Consociational Theory and Peace Agreements in Pluri-National Place, Northern Ireland and Other Cases’, in Guy Ben-Porat ed., The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process. London: Palgrave, 2008.

*Contract issued by publisher – chapter submitted to editor: John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Power-Shared after Death of Thousands’, in Rupert Taylor ed., Consociational Theory: McGarry-O’Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict. London: Routledge 2008.

* John McGarry, ‘Conclusion: Power-Sharing Theory: Lessons from the Complex Power-sharing Project’ in Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger eds., Settling Self-determination Disputes: Complex Power-sharing in Theory and Practice, (Centre for International Constitutional Studies, U. of Cambridge) Boston and Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007: pp. 689-718.

*John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary, 'Stabilising Northern Ireland's Agreement' in B. Osborne, C. Knox and P. Carmichael ed, Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2007) revised and substantially expanded version of paper originally published in Political Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 3, July-September 2004:.

*John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Federations and Managing Nations’ in M. Burgess and J. Pinter eds., Multinational Federations. London: Routledge, 2007.

*John McGarry, ‘Liberal Consociation and Conflict Management’ in Ben Roswell, David Malone and Markus Bouillon ed., Iraq: Preventing Another Generation of Conflict (Boulder CO:Lynne Rienner Press, 2007:169-88.

*John McGarry, ‘Asymmetrical Federalism and the Plurinational State’ in F. Geerkens ed., Third International Conference on Federalism: Turning Diversity into Harmony – Sharing Best Practices (Dept. of Foreign Affairs: Brussels, 2006): 302-325

John McGarry, Michael Keating and Margaret Moore, ‘Introduction: European Integration and the Nationalities Question’ in John McGarry and Michael Keating eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question (London: Routledge, 2006), 1-20.

John McGarry, ‘Europe’s Limits: European Integration and Conflict Management in Northern Ireland’ in John McGarry and Michael Keating eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question (London: Routledge, 2006), 273-289.

*John McGarry and B. O’Leary, ‘Federation as a Method of Ethnic Conflict Regulation’ in S.J.R. Noel ed., From Power-sharing to Democracy: Post-conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies. (Montreal and Kingston; McGill-Queen’s University Press), 263-96.

*John McGarry and Margaret Moore, ‘Karl Renner, Power-Sharing and Non-Territorial Autonomy’, in E. Nimni ed., National cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics (London: Routledge, 2005), 74-94.

John McGarry, ‘Canadian Lesson for Iraq’, in Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih eds., The Future of Kurdistan and Iraq (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2005), 92-115.

Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih, ‘Preface’ in Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih eds., The Future of Kurdistan and Iraq (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, March 2005), xi-xxi.

*John McGarry, ‘Foreword: De Facto States and the International Order’, in T. Bahcheli, B. Bartmann, and H. Srebnik eds., De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty (London: Routledge 2004), ix-xii.

*John McGarry, ‘Civic Nationalism and the Northern Ireland Conflict’ in M. Seymour ed., The Fate of the Nation-State (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004), 194-213

*John McGarry, ‘Power-Sharing Theory and the Northern Ireland Conflict’ in A. Morawa ed., European Yearbook of Minority Issues. (Bozen/Bolzano: Kluwer Academic Press, 2003), 283-98.

*John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Northern Ireland and the liabilities of liberalism’, in John Stone & Rutledge Dennis (eds) Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Blackwell, 2003), 171-186 This article was previously published in .Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, Number 4, 1995: 837-61.

*John McGarry, ‘Federal Political Systems and the Accommodation of National Minorities’ in A. Griffiths ed., The Handbook of Federal Countries, 2002 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), 416-47

*John McGarry, ‘Le nationalisme civique et le conflit en Irlande du Nord’, in M. Seymour ed., États nations, multinations et organisations supranationales, Montréal: Liber, 2002), .301-15

Michael Keating and John McGarry, ‘Introduction: Minority Nationalism in the Changing International Order’, in Michael Keating and John McGarry eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1-15.

John McGarry, ‘Northern Ireland and the Shortcomings of Civic Nationalism’, in J.McGarry ed., Northern Ireland and the Divided World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 109-36.

John McGarry, ‘Globalization, European Integration and the Northern Ireland Conflict’, in Michael Keating and John McGarry eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 295-323.

John McGarry, ‘The Comparable Northern Ireland’, in J.McGarry ed., Northern Ireland and the Divided World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1-33.

*John McGarry, ‘Orphans of Secession: The Problem of National Pluralism in Secessionist Regions and Post-Secession States’, in Margaret Moore, ed., National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): 215-32.

*John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Eliminating and Managing Differences’ in Anthony Smith and John Hutchinson eds., Ethnicity, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996): 333-41.

*Brendan O’Leary and John McGarry, ‘Regulating Nations and Ethnic Communities’, in R. Breton, G. Galeottie, P. Salmon and R. Wintrobe eds., Nationalism and Rationality, (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995): 245-90.

Dominic Lieven and John McGarry, ‘Ethnic Conflict in the Soviet Union and its Successor States’, in J. McGarry and B. O'Leary eds., The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation (London: Routledge, 1993): 62-83.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘The Macro-Political Regulation of Ethnic Conflict’, in J. McGarry and B. O'Leary eds., The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation. (London: Routledge, 1993): 1-40.

John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Northern Ireland's Options: A Framework and Analysis’, in J. McGarry and B. O'Leary eds., The Future of Northern Ireland (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990): 261-96.

John McGarry and Charles Graham, ‘Co-Determination’, in J. McGarry and B. O'Leary eds., The Future of Northern Ireland (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990): 155-74.

Encyclopedia Entries and short publications:
*John McGarry, ‘Secession’ in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (London, Macmillan: 2007).

*John McGarry, ‘Secession’, in Social Sciences Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.

*John McGarry, ‘Federalism and Federation’, in Social Sciences Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.

John McGarry, 'Can federalism help to manage ethnic and national diversity?, Federations, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2004: 3-5 (1800 words)
Translated into French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic
John McGarry, ’Puede contribuir el federalismo al manejo de la diversidad étnica y nacional’, Federaciones, vol 4, no. 1, March 2004
John McGarry, ‘Le fédéralisme peut-il contribuer á concilier la diversité ethnique et nationale?’, Federations, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2004: 3-5
Arabic version.

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