Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that territorial conflicts in Jerusalem and Northern Ireland were inevitable.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'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