David Baker & Pauline Schnapper 
Britain and the Crisis of the European Union [PDF ebook] 

This book centres on the effects of the political and later economic crisis which seriously affected the European Union and its impact on the seemingly endless UK debate over Britain’s position within the EU.

Table des matières

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A Multi-Faceted Crisis

2. Britain and Europe in a new Global Environment

3. Notes on Theory and Method

4. Intergovernmentalism and Historical Institutionalism

5. Comparative and Historical Political Economy

6. Outline

PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS

7. The Eurozone: A Crisis Waiting to Happen

8. The EZ Crisis – An Analytical Chronology

9. Phase One: From Maastricht to Meltdown

10. Phase Two: The Sovereign Debt Crisis

11. Solutions become problems

12. European Integration – From Embedded Liberalism to Variegated Neoliberalism

13. Conclusion: Winner Takes All, But at What Cost ?

PART II: BRITISH PREFERENCES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: UNSUNG SUCCESS

14. Consequences of a Late Entry 1945-79

15. The Conservative Governments 1979-97

16. The New Labour Years

17. The Convention and Constitutional Treaty

18. Conclusion

PART III: EUROSCEPTICISM IN BRITAIN

19. British Euroscepticism

20. Divisions about Europe 1945-88

21. Blair and New Labour: An End to Divisions ?

22. The Conservative Party after 1997: the Drift towards Hard Euroscepticism

23. Public Opinion since the late 1990s

24. Conclusion

PART IV: THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

25. Disillusionment and the Strains in the Political System

26. Fragmentation and Polarisation

27. The Effect of National and Global Trends

28. The Rise of Populist Parties

29. The Political Use of Referendums

30. Devolution and the Possible End of the British State

31. Conclusion

PART V: BRITAIN AND THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

32. An Ongoing Academic Debate

33. Consequences of the Financial and Economic Crisis

34. Attempts to Respond to the  »Democratic Deficit »

35. Domestic Crises and the Fear of Globalisation

36. Conclusion

PART VI: BRITAIN AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

37. The View from London

38. British Exceptionalism in the EU

39. Nation and Atlanticsm: the Exceptional Community

40. Nationhood and Sovereignty

41. A Alternative for Britain in the Global Economy ?

42. Hyperglobalism

43. Open Regionalism

44. Intergovernmentalism

45. Hyperglobalism: Will Winner Take All ?

46. Cameron »s Diplomacy in Europe and the Failure of Tory Statecraft

47. Semi-Detachment or  »Brexit » ?

Conclusion

Bibliography                                                                                  

A propos de l’auteur

David Baker is a retired professor of Politics from the University of Warwick. In 1991 he founded (with Professor Andrew Gamble) the ‘Members of Parliament Group’ which researched the influence of euroscepticism on the major UK political parties, with a special focus on the Conservative Party. His research is based upon a political economy approach.Pauline Schnapper is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.