Daddow Harold Wilson and European Integration

Britain's Second Application to Join the EEC
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-95798-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Harold Wilson's direction of the second British application to join the EEC us ripe for reinterpretation. With new and exciting material now available in the Public Record Office and abroad, this is an extremely propitious moment to reconsider Wilson's motivations, and to contextualise them in light of evidence on foreign policy-making contained in the official record.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daddow, Oliver J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - the historiography of Wilson's attempt to take Britain into the EEC, Oliver J. Daddow. Part I The domestic context: the Labour Party, public opinion and the "second try" in 1967, Anne Deighton; the Conservatives and the Wilson application, Philip Lynch; gone native - the Foreign Office and Harold Wilson's policy towards the EEC, 1964-67, Helen Parr; technological cooperation in Wilson's strategy for EEC entry, John W. Young; the Confederation of British Industry and European integration in the 1960s, Neil Rollings. Part II The external context: a short-term defeat - the community institutions and the second British application to join the EEC, N. Piers Ludlow; John Bull v. Marianne, round two - Anglo-French relations and Britain's second EEC membership bid, Anthony Adamthwaite; dealing with de Gaulle - Anglo-American relations, NATO and the second application, James Ellison; from imperial power to regional powers - Commonwealth crises and the second application, Philip Alexander; "we too mean business" - Germany and the second British application to the EEC, 1966-67, Katharina Bohmer; Ireland and Britain's second application to join the EEC, Jane Toomey; conclusion - the ironies of "successful failure", Peter Catterall. Appendices: Labour Cabinet members, October 1964 - June 1970; chronology of European integration and the British approach, 1964-1970.