Britain in Europe: The Impact on Foreign Policy

Younger, Kenneth

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“…As during Phase 1, there was no consistent immersion by British political parties in the transnational political networks that evolved from 1945, such as the Geneva Circle and Nouvelles Equipes Internationales (Gehler and Kaiser, ). Establishment Britain encouraged European unity while wishing to maintain a free hand in line with the limited liability conception of Britain's global role articulated by Churchill (Younger, , p. 580).…”

Section: The Outsider Tradition In the Historiographymentioning

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Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron

Daddow

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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The article investigates how British European policy thinking has been informed by what it identifies as an 'outsider' tradition of thinking about 'Europe' in British foreign policy dating from imperial times to the presen. The article begins by delineating five phases in the evolution of the outsider tradition through a survey of the relevant historiography back to 1815. The article then examines how prime ministers from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron have looked to various inflections of the outsider tradition to inform their European discourses. The focus in the speech data sections is on British identity, history and the realist appreciation of international politics that informed the leaders' suggestions for EEC/EU reform. The central argument is that historically informed narratives such as those making up the outsider tradition do not determine opinion-formers' outlooks, but that they can be deeply impervious to rapid change.

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Section: The Outsider Tradition In the Historiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron

Daddow

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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Britain in Europe: The Impact on Foreign Policy

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Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron

Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron

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