Ulsterisationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Ulsterisation ‎(uncountable)

1. The devolution of security and policing to Northern Irish forces such as the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
   • 1987, John Darby, Northern Ireland: the background to the conflict, Syracuse Univ Pr (ISBN 9780815624172)

     The first indication of the Ulsterisation policy came in April 1974 when the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, announced that he intended to restore 'the full responsibility of law and order to the police'.

2. (by extension) The devolution of security and policing to local forces in any area with an active insurgency.
3. The rise of nationalism in a region, and consequent rejection of traditional left/right politics in favour of nationalist/unionist politics.
   • 1978, Jane's Information Group, Foreign Report

     Suarez told the Carter administration that 'Ulsterisation' of the Basque problem would present a serious threat to Spain's precarious democratic regime.

   • 2012, Jean-Jacques Chardin, The Déjà-vu and the Authentic: Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ISBN 9781443839297), page 170

     India being also at the forefront of the anti-colonial battle in the world, any official recognition of territorial limits for a would-be Pakistan on Indian territory could have led to the Ulsterisation of India.

   • 2016 May 9, David Torrance, “The Ulsterisation of Scottish politics is complete”^[1], The Herald: