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This book undertakes the first detailed membership study of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). The UUP was the dominant political party in Northern Ireland during the twentieth century, but since the 1998 Belfast Agreement, the UUP has struggled to retain the loyalty and affection of many within the majority Protestant-Unionist-British community. The Belfast Agreement was internationally lauded, the UUP leader David Trimble feted with a Nobel Peace Prize.The Agreement largely produced by the UUP established power-sharing between unionists and nationalists. Yet many unionists abandoned the UUP. Many defectors, angered by UUP concessions of paramilitary prisoner releases, policing changes, and ‘terrorists’ in government, wanted a more robust defender of unionist interests. Having switched to the one-time ferociously religious and militant DUP, they have not returned to the UUP. This book analyses these developments and the current state of the Party, particularly through the prism of its (still sizeable) membership. It draws upon the first-ever quantitative study of those members, examining who they are; how and why they joined; why they have stayed loyal to their party; how they view those who defected and where the UUP is heading. The volume also uses a wide range of interviews with members at all levels of the Party and with its five most recent leaders, to analyse views on the UUP’s electoral and political difficulties and how they might be reversed. The book draws upon historical, political, and sociological perspectives in analysing the identities of UUP members and their perceptions of a wide range of contemporary issues, covering political institutions, other parties, social change, moral issues, religion, and voting.

Ulster Unionist Party --- History

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Home rule (Ierland) --- Home rule (Ireland) --- Home rule (Irlande) --- Unionism (Irish politics) --- Irish question --- Ireland --- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) --- Politics and government --- History --- Ulster Unionist Party --- Ireland - Politics and government - 1910-1921 --- Ireland - Politics and government - 1901-1910 --- Ireland - History - 1910-1921 --- Ireland - History - 1901-1910 --- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - History

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'Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland' uses original material from witness seminars, elite interviews, and archive documents to explore the shape taken by the Irish peace process, and in particular to analyse the manner in which successful stages of this were negotiated. Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement of 1998 marked the end a 30-year conflict that had witnessed more than 3,000 deaths, thousands of injuries, catastrophic societal damage, and large-scale economic dislocation. This book traces the roots of the Agreement over the decades, stretching back to the Sunningdale conference of 1973 and extending up to at least the St Andrews Agreement of 2006.

Violence --- Conflict management --- Peace-building --- Northern Ireland --- Politics and government. --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Sinn Fein --- Ulster Unionist Party --- Ulster Party --- Shin Feĭn --- SF --- Ċoṁairle Náisiúnta (Ireland) --- National Council (Ireland) --- Chomhairle Naisiunta (Ireland) --- Sinn Fein the Workers' Party --- History --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- G.N.I. --- GNI --- Irlande du Nord --- Kita Airurando --- Kitairurando --- Nordirland --- Norlin Airlann --- Pohjois-Irlanti --- Severna Irlandii︠a︡ --- Tuaisceart Éireann --- 北アイルランド --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations --- Peace negotiations --- Politicians --- Statesmen