From 1994 to 2007, Paul Bew has been an avid and perceptive chronicler of the Northern Ireland peace process. He has interviewed all the leading figures involved in the Good Friday Agreement and provided incisive first-hand commentary on the negotiations for the major broadsheets on both islands. In this volume, which collects some of his most topical and prescient essays, he discusses the many crises which have afflicted the implementation of the Agreement since 1988 and which have paralysed the power-sharing institutions since 2002. He also deals in detail with the recent attempts to revive these institutions under the hegemony of the DUP and Sinn Fein. The book concludes with an insightful discussion of the future of Northern Ireland in the context of the elections of March 2007 and the historic agreement for power-sharing between these two long-standing political adversaries.