Background
O'Leary, Denis Brendan was born on March 19, 1958 in Cork, Ireland. Son of Donal Joseph and Margery (O'Mahony) O'L.
(This is a bold and timely analysis of the conflict in Nor...)
This is a bold and timely analysis of the conflict in Northern Ireland, offering a comprehensive, up-to-date and constructively critical evaluation of the massive outpouring of literature on the subject. John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary examine the most common explanations of the conflict - nationalist, unionist, Marxist, religious, cultural and economic - highlighting their shortcomings and placing Northern Ireland within a comparative context. Synthesizing their conclusions, the authors advance a realistic but imaginative prognosis for conflict-resolution in this most troubled region.
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(Western perceptions of Oriental history have usually comb...)
Western perceptions of Oriental history have usually combined images of despots presiding over bloody slaughter with harems overpopulated with sensuous concubines. Karl Marx's theory of an "Asiatic mode of production" is one of the most controversial examples of occidental visions of the East which have mixed fact and fantasy, and in this trenchant but accessible book the controversies surrounding Marx's ideas are rigorously examined. Brendan O'Leary's revision of the conventional wisdom of the Asiatic mode of production shows up the inaccuracy of many previous critics of Marx and Engels' writings - notably the theoretical and empirical deficiencies of Karl Wittfogel's "Oriental Despotism", the most famous reconstruction of the concept - and shows how the theory poses an insuperable dilemma for historical materialism: Marx's theory of history is damned with the concept, and damned without it.
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journalist Political science educator
O'Leary, Denis Brendan was born on March 19, 1958 in Cork, Ireland. Son of Donal Joseph and Margery (O'Mahony) O'L.
Bachelor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford (England) University, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy, London School of Economics, London, 1988.
Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1983-1990; senior lecturer, London School of Economics, 1990-1992; reader, London School of Economics, 1992-1996; professor political science, London School of Economics, since 1996. Visiting professor U. Notre Dame, since 1991, U. Western Ontario, Canada, 1995-1996. Consultant to project on Somalia, United Nations/European Union, 1995-1996.
(This is a bold and timely analysis of the conflict in Nor...)
(Western perceptions of Oriental history have usually comb...)
Constnl. advisor to Kevin McNamara MP, 1988-1994, Marjorie Mowlan MP, since 1994. Broadcaster Nationalism, numerous networks. Fellow Center for Study of Nationalism.