Abstract
The role of former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton in the Northern Ireland peace process has been acknowledged as an example of political risk-taking and leadership driven by political interests and strategic post–Cold War aims. The tendency to examine Clinton’s role from the perspective of international and global policy objectives, however, has obscured consideration of his motivational role in the Northern Ireland peace process and of how he moved between encouragement and intervention to help the political parties reach a settlement. This article, which is drawn from an extended interview conducted with Clinton in 2017, seeks to paint a more comprehensive picture of Clinton’s participation in the peace process, showing how his combination of motivational and interventional skills enabled him to help convince others of the need to take risks for peace and gave him greater influence and leverage over the peace process as a result.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 269-295 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Negotiation Journal |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 15 May 2019 |
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- Motivation and intervention in the Northern Ireland peace process
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Spencer, G. (2019), Motivation and Intervention in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: An Interview with President Bill Clinton. Negotiation Journal, 35: 269-295. doi:10.1111/nejo.12288, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nejo.12288. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.