Reluctant Europeans de David Gowland

Reluctant Europeans: Britain and European Integration 1945-1998

David Gowland

Arthur Turner

During the past fifty years few issues in British politics have generated such heated controversy as Britain's approach to European integration. Why has Europe had such an explosive impact on British politics? What impelled British policymakers to embrace a European destiny and why did they take such a cautious approach? These are some of the key issues addressed inThe Reluctant Europeans. This new study draws upon recently available source material providing a clear chronological account and covering events right up to Blair's first year in office and the launch of the Euro.

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Paperback (1)

328^.03 lei 43-57 zile

Taylor & Francis – 13 oct 1999

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Taylor & Francis – 14 dec 2016

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Frontispiece; Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; Chapter One Britain, Europe and the Audit of War; Chapter Two Western Union and the Reconstruction of Western Europe; Chapter Three ‘We are not ready’: Britain and the Schuman Plan; Chapter Four The Case for Association; Chapter Five The ‘Special Relationship’ and European Unity; Chapter Six The Commonwealth Dimension; Chapter Seven From Messina to Rome; Chapter Eight On the Defensive; Chapter Nine From Application to Veto; Chapter Ten Ancient Rivalries; Chapter Eleven Labour’s Retreat into Europe; Chapter Twelve Mission Accomplished; Chapter Thirteen Renegotiating ‘Tory Terms’; Chapter Fourteen ‘Full-hearted Consent’: the 1975 Referendum; Chapter Fifteen Semi-detached: the Callaghan Government and Europe; Chapter Sixteen More U-turns: Labour and the EC in the 1980s; Chapter Seventeen ‘Megaphone Diplomacy’: Thatcher and the EC, 1979–1984; Chapter Eighteen Fatal Attraction: Thatcher and the Single European Act; Chapter Nineteen ‘At the Heart of Europe’?; Chapter Twenty Opting out: the Maastricht Treaty Review; Chapter Twenty-One Eurosceptics versus Europhiles; Chapter Twenty-Two ‘War at Last’: the Beef Crisis of 1996; Chapter Twenty-Three Under New Management: the General Election of 1997; Chapter Twenty-Four After Amsterdam: Enlargement, Employment and the Euro; Chapter Twenty-Five New Labour, Old Problems: the British Presidency of 1998;

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An objective account of Britain's relations with continental Europe, and divided attitude to the processes of European integration, from postwar reconstruction to the present day. The authors adopt a jargon-free approach to cover the economic, financial and commercial dimensions of the story as well as its politics. Their clear chronological approach brings all these aspects into play together (gathering much widely-dispersed data, and using a wealth of newly-released material from the Macmillan and Heath eras) to clarify the changing patterns of this relationship. The result - for a multidisciplinary and general readership - illuminates the postwar history of Britain and Europe alike.