Bulletin n. 3/2009
January 2010
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gueldry Michel
    La Grande-Bretagne et l’Europe: du pragmatisme insulaire au partenariat sceptique
    in Europe en formation (L') , n. 353-354, automne-hiver ,  2009 ,  94-110
    On January 1, 1973, Britain finally became a full-fledged member of the European Community after decades of avoidance, rancorous negotiations and chagrined conditionality. Thus this chapter focuses on the relationship between Britain and “Europe” as an economic and political project between the late 1940s and the 1970s. First it presents the structural factors that precluded British participation to the nascent European project from the early 1950s to the late 1960s and still impeded it afterwards. Then it analyzes the specific circumstances that facilitated a progressive British rapprochement, with special consideration paid to Britain’s successive yet structurally ambivalent candidacies. Next this chapter turns to the implications and difficulties of Britain’s entry in the Common Market in the mid-1970s, and details Margaret Thatcher’s rupture with the post-World War II Beveridgean consensus, her embrace of economic liberalism and her dissenting, belligerent views on European integration. These historical considerations lead to more theoretical analyses that identify and interpret the core components –historical, cultural, political, economic, and institutional – of the British approach toward the European project. Full text available on-line: http://www.cife.eu/UserFiles/File/EEF/353_54/EEF353_54-6MG.pdf
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