Kimberly Cowell-Meyers
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Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University, Washington, D.C. Author of Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Party Faithful in Ireland and Germany.
Primary Contributions (12)
Ian Paisley was a militant Protestant leader in the factional conflict that divided Northern Ireland from the 1960s, who was first minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to June 2008. He also served as a member of the British Parliament (1970–2010) and the European Parliament (1979–2004). The…
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Publications (1)
Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth-Century: The Party Faithful in Ireland and Germany (June 2002)
Cowell-Meyers examines the continued sectarian conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Analyzing the process through which sectarian conflict was managed on the continent, she identifies the unique evolution of the Irish situation. Whereas European Catholics, such as those in the new Germany, developed an institutional pillar to defend themselves and protect their interests in the modern plural state, Irish Catholics developed a radical nationalist movement...
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