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EU&GB - Lesson2
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- 1Notion of InsularityGeography
- - 2InsularityGeography:
-Safety because is island - everyone failed to invade
- Far away from EU Problems
- Opportunity to dream bigger - open see
History:
-Maritime nation
- trying to impose balance of power - EU = dangerous --> GB isolated so safe BUT during WW2 needed allie (France) - 3Appeasement Policy1930 - GB needed ally during WW2 - Allied with France + made policy
What is it: try to avoid another war - made "friends" with Hitler to
Wanted to stay safe from Hitler and for him to turn anger towards Russia and the Soviet Union - 4BritishnessImperial ideology - thought they were always better than the others
Richness and glory (19th Century) came from EMPIRE and NOT Europe!
- White Mans burden
-GB sees itself as "mother country" - whereas Europe sees it as "just another nation" --> reinforced after WW2 - 5White man's burdenGB thought it was their role to bring civilization to rest of the world that was inferior to them
- 6Britishness 2- Institutions- Solidity of British Institutions --> No need for centralized source of authority - Parliament + Monarchy together
- two century lead over rest of Europe (government)
Institutions stood test of time
- flexibility and adaptation - EU NOT - 7Diplomacy (after WW2)1. Impact of WW2
- GB stood alone against Hitler and WON - pride & nostalgia
2. Churchill myth
- symbol of strength - stood for british values - 8Churchill2x PM - 1940 bis 1945 & 1951 bis 1955
Pro Europe but saw Eu only as
1. instrument to keep Soviet Union away from them (balance or Power)
2. strategically good for Britain
BUT - GB would ALWAYS come first
His ideology was used by Brexiteers AND STAY - 9Diplomacy in 3 circles - by ChurchillBritain = only country in all three circles = balance of world thus rested on Britain
- 10Key principles - how UK has behaved towards Europe1. As a friend - but from distance
2. America first (new superpower - GB could stay superpower if close to USA)
3. No supra-nationalism - didn't like to be held down by Union - but had to join ECSC
4. Dislike of European treaties - rigidity of EU - 11Problems with EU's and GB's compatibilitynot compatible in
1. traditions
2. politics - rigidity
3. objectives/ambitions - 12ECSC & Schuman PalnEuropean Coal and Steel Comunity established in 1951 by Belgium, G, FR, IT, Lux & Netherlands
created after WW2 to regulate the coal and steel Industries
Goal = make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible
would create common market for coal & steel
Doesn't exist anymore since 2002 - activities fully absorbed by the EC = European Community under the framework of Amsterdam Treaty and Nice Treaty