This article examines Irish language activism in Northern Ireland, an understudied yet successful case of grassroots mobilization in the context of a post-conflict consociational democracy. Drawing...

This extract from Simon Mabon's book, Schism: The Story of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East, looks at how political crises transform religious

Lebanon is known as a deeply divided society. The country's political system divides power between Muslims and Christians, and sect-based identities shape social and political life. Yet, throughout it...

por Cédric Gouverneur (Le Monde Diplomatique - Edição Portuguesa, Maio 2026)

From Victorian-era botany classes to modern climate workshops, Queen’s University Belfast’s Open Learning Programme is reconnecting people through education, creativity, and community spirit, writes L...

The majority of Lebanese people distrusts Hezbollah, but the Israeli attacks are driving many in the south back into their fold.

The bombs have stopped falling on Iran, but not on Lebanon. Israel is talking to the Lebanese government, but has not let up in its assault on Hezbollah, which...

The Israel Defense Forces has used southern Beirut as the template for a tactic of ‘total war’.

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

Protesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies. Guest Editors: John Nagle and Simon Mabon. Volume 25, Issue 2 of Ethnopolitics

Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the numb....

In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

In this essay, Palestinian scholars from Gaza reflect on how Gaza is brought into Western academic spaces since the beginning of the genocide. Over the last two years, academic engagement with Gaza...

Professor John Nagle

When This Is Over - Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic; Academics, activists and artists remember and reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic in an inclusive commemorative overview which honours the experien...

This introduction outlines an agenda for research on protest and power-sharing. Power-sharing scholarship has ignored grassroots contentious politics, viewing protest as a threat to the top-down mo...

McGill-Queen’s University Press

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, due in Westminster Magistrates’ Court over alleged Hizbollah flag incident

Anti-immigrant riots began in Ballymena, but economic grievances may not be enough to explain the phenomenon.

Consociational power-sharing has been described as ‘hegemonic’ as the international community’s preferred institutional framework for ending intrastate conflicts. Consociationalism’s dominance is i...

Published in Politics, Religion & Ideology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the numb...