Britain and European Integration since 1945

Gowland, David; Turner, A. Logan; Wright, Alex

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“…This interdisciplinary body of work – European Studies in empirical and methodological orientation, as opposed to contemporary ‘EU Studies’ (McGowan , p. 8; Warleigh‐Lack, ) – looks to the historical, cultural and background ideas informing Britain's policy responses to European integration dilemmas. This work takes various guises: British politics and/or foreign policy that have an explicit (Baker and Seawright, ; Deighton, ; Williams, ; Holden, ; Oppermann, ) or has a composite European focus (Turner, ; Gaskarth, ); the history of British diplomacy toward the EC/EU (George, ; Ludlow, ; Wilkes, ; Parr, ; Gowland et al ., ; Pine, ); political parties, civil society and other sectoral interests and European integration (Turner, ; Coupland, ; Crowson, ; Usherwood, ; Broad and Daddow, ; Lynch, ; Fitzgibbon, ); and accounts of the symbolism and cultural capital attached to Eurosceptical readings of the British (influentially, Colley, ) – but most often English – national ‘character’ (Marcussen et al ., , pp. 111–4; Redwood, , pp.…”

Section: The European Issue In British Politics: An Interpretivist Pementioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy

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Daddow

Schnapper³

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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Britain has had particular problems reconciling itself to the idea of being a 'European' actor and a wholehearted member of the EEC/EU since 1973. Now, potentially, the 'awkward partner', is edging towards the exit door of the EU because a membership referendum is an increasingly likely prospect in the coming years. The aim of this special issue is to consider how we can account for the present state of affairs by adopting an interpretivist perspective on British European policy over the past four decades. The article begins with a comprehensive review of the extant literature on Britain and Europe, and an elaboration of the 'traditions and dilemmas' framework within which the contributors have studied the empirical material in their articles. It then explains the major themes that connect the articles and suggests how future research might build on the agenda proposed in this special issue.

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Section: The European Issue In British Politics: An Interpretivist Pementioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy

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Daddow

Schnapper³

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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“…There is not, of course, one European policy tradition, but over the past 50 years Euroenthusiasts and Eurosceptics on both the political right and left have frequently framed British policy toward Europe—both for and against deeper integration—on the basis of expected economic benefits or costs (Gowland et al. ). The political and cultural aspirations for Europe that have underpinned the positions of other European leaders have not been primary determinants of Britain's European policy.…”

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“…The secular imperative is also a cultural judgment about European integration and thus marks a break from a longstanding tradition in British foreign policy that approaches Europe as primarily a means for achieving economic ends (Gamble 1999). There is not, of course, one European policy tradition, but over the past 50 years Euroenthusiasts and Eurosceptics on both the political right and left have frequently framed British policy toward Europe-both for and against deeper integration-on the basis of expected economic benefits or costs (Gowland et al 2010). The political and cultural aspirations for Europe that have underpinned the positions of other European leaders have not been primary determinants of Britain's European policy.…”

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Europe as a Cultural Project: Turkey and the European Union in the British Press

Phillips¹

2012

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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An interpretive approach to foreign policy explains the beliefs of actors and the meanings of their actions by locating them in their respective historical traditions and in response to particular dilemmas. This article explains how the British Press constructs ‘secularism’ as a requirement for Turkey's potential future membership in the European Union (EU) as a response to the rise of the Islamically‐identified Justice and Development Party (AKP). By emphasizing Turkey's secularism as a precondition for entry into the EU, the press effects a significant departure from the dominant British foreign policy traditions with respect to Turkey and the EU, which have highlighted considerations of material benefits. These arguments are pursued through a close analysis of how the British Press covered the attempted election of the country's next president in 2007 and the resulting conflict.

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“…In terms of its foreign policy orientation Britain has often been labelled a ‘stranger in Europe’, home to a nation of ‘reluctant Europeans’, sitting ‘on the sidelines’ of integration, politically, geographically and emotionally (Gowland and Turner, ; Wall, ; Gowland et al ., ). Elite decision‐makers in London were extremely cautious about throwing Britain's full weight behind supranational integration initiatives after 1945.…”

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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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Britain and European Integration since 1945

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Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy

Introduction: InterpretingBritishEuropean Policy

Europe as a Cultural Project: Turkey and the European Union in the British Press

Interpreting the Outsider Tradition inBritishEuropean Policy Speeches fromThatcher toCameron

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