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Joseph M. Brown

Joseph M. Brown is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Articles by Joseph M. Brown
A member of the Orange Order looks on July 12, 2016, at a temporary blockade put in place by police during the order's annual parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Loyalists were commemorating the 1690 defeat of the Catholic King James II by the Protestant Prince William of Orange. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
What Americans can learn from Northern Ireland: Walls make bad neighbors
Joseph M. BrownGordon McCord
The Troubles in Northern Ireland were worsened by the failure to build social bridges between Protestants and Catholics, write Joseph M. Brown and Gordon McCord. The lesson applies to divisions in our own time.