Britain and the European Union
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Britain and the European Union

  1. 476 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Britain and the European Union

About this book

This engaging and concise new edition offers the student and general reader a compact, readable treatment of British membership of the European Union (EU) from 1973 up until the present day and Brexit, with detailed analysis of the period 1945-1972 accounting for Britain's absence from the formation of the EU.

It provides a highly distilled and accessible analysis and overview of some of the parameters and recurring features of Britain's membership of the European Union, touching on all the major facets of membership at this critical time in Britain's relationship with Europe.

Key features of the new edition:

  • examines the constant and changing character of British membership of the EU;

  • discusses the problematical and often paradoxical features of EU membership;

  • familiarises the reader with both academic and public debates about the subject;

  • offers thematic treatment of all aspects of policy and attitudes towards the EU;

  • significantly restructured and updated to include the origins of the decision to hold a referendum on UK membership of the EU, the campaign, explanations for its outcome, and the course, substance and implications of the UK-EU Brexit negotiations.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and the generally interested reader in the areas of European Politics/Studies, British Politics, EU Politics/Studies, Area Studies and International Relations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of tables and boxes
  8. Preface
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Europe and the European Union
  12. 2 Back to the future
  13. 3 Belonging without believing
  14. 4 Leading from behind: opt-outs, opt-ins, rebates and red lines
  15. 5 Party games and politics
  16. 6 Devolution and European Union membership
  17. 7 The press and the European Union
  18. 8 The pound, the euro and the City: brief encounters and quick exits
  19. 9 Britain, the European Union and the wider world
  20. 10 ‘Banging on about Europe’: the Conservatives and the European Union 2010—15
  21. 11 Hallmarks of British membership of the EU
  22. 12 The Referendum of 2016: the campaign
  23. 13 The Referendum of 2016: the result
  24. 14 The May government and Brexit, 2016–19: decline and fail
  25. 15 The Brexiter government, 2019–20
  26. Chronological table
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index