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During the past twenty years the British discussion of European
issues has increasingly lost contact with reality or rationality.
Wilful ignorance, political opportunism and media manipulation have
unrecognizably distorted the European debate in the United Kingdom.
Even those in theory favourable to a central and constructive
British role in the European Union have found themselves endorsing
many of the premises of their opponents. In this short book,
British attitudes to the European Union, particularly those of the
media and political classes, will be critically reviewed. The
authors conclude that Britain's position within the Union is
currently in great jeopardy; and that those who sincerely wish to
ward off this danger need fundamentally to reconsider the political
tactics and rhetoric they have employed until now.
For some politicians and commentators, Britain is always destined
to be the 'odd man out' in the European Union, with a history and
set of political attitudes which must always pit the United
Kingdom's interests against those of its neighbours. For others,
such claims of British exceptionalism are at best much exaggerated,
and to the extent this exceptionalism exists it arises largely from
subjective rather than objective factors. This collection of essays
reviews British attitudes towards a number of current European
issues. It does not attempt finally to decide the controversy about
British exceptionalism, but rather to provide material for a more
informed debate on this complex subject.
This is a study of the European Union's external decision-making
processes and the present debate which surrounds them. It considers
in turn three main elements of these processes, the Common Foreign
and Security Policy (CFSP), the External Security and Defence
Policy (ESDP)and the Common Commercial Policy (CCP).
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Andrew Hammond, Brendan Donnelly, Nanjappa Ashwath
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