ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 synthesises the main findings and conclusions of the study, with reflections on transnational movement solidarity, ‘shared political culture’, an unstructured nexus dynamic, and the dominant thread of asymmetricity that runs throughout the history of radical Basque nationalist-Irish republican relations. The main theoretical finding concerns a trilogy of accumulative factors that grounded the emergence, development and sustainment of transnational allyship. While shared ideology acted as a magnet for transnational engagement, material and/or learning movement needs and objectives tended to drive more advanced levels of cooperation. In the Basque-Irish case, these two factors created the conditions for the development of a ‘shared political culture’ at the intersection of both movements and for nexus sustainment.
