1. John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary: Introduction: Consociational Theory and Northern Ireland 2. Brendan O'Leary: The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Folly or Statecraft? 3. Brendan O'Leary: The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism in Northern Ireland 4. John McGarry: Comparing Northern Ireland 5. John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary: Five Fallacies: Northern Ireland and the Liabilities of Liberalism 6. Brendan O'Leary: The Labour Government and Northern Ireland, 1974-9 7. Brendan O'Leary: The Conservative Stewardship of Northern Ireland 1979-97: Sound-Bottomed Contradictions or Slow Learning? 8.

John McGarry: Political Settlements in Northern Ireland and South Africa 9. Brendan O'Leary: The Nature of the Agreement 10. John McGarry: Globalization, European Integration, and the Northern Ireland Conflict 11. John McGarry: 'Democracy' in Northern Ireland: Experiments in Self-rule from the Protestant Ascendancy to the Good Friday Agreement 12. Brendan O'Leary: The Protection of Human Rights Under the Belfast Agreement 13. John McGarry: The Politics of Policing Reform in Northern Ireland Bibliography of Writings by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary on Irish Politics, 1985-2003.