The Making of Eurosceptic Britain

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Explaining Euroscepticism, factionalism and opposition?......Page 16
On the concept of populism......Page 18
Conditions of populism, post-imperial Britain......Page 19
Britain, Europe and globalisation......Page 22
European integration, Fordism and the rise of regional governance......Page 26
The missing European rescue of the British state......Page 29
The British post-war consensus, the imperial state and the problem of modernisation......Page 31
The Labour government and the Schuman Plan 1950, an imperial approach to European integration......Page 36
The failure of the European Defence Community 1951-1954, a British victory......Page 43
Sabotaging Messina and the free trade proposals......Page 46
The Suez crisis and the turn to Europe......Page 49
Modernisation without modernising......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 59
The British post-imperial crisis......Page 60
Entry into the Community, the Heath government and flawed Europeanism......Page 65
Mobilising against the EC: ‘Europe’ as ‘other’......Page 71
The shifting balance of domestic forces and the further decline of Europeanism......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 78
The second wave of European integration......Page 80
Europeanisation, an effective response to globalisation?......Page 86
Thatcherism and British exceptionalism......Page 94
Thatcherism and the financialisation of the global order......Page 96
A struggle for hegemony......Page 98
Thatcherism, the crisis in the Conservative party and European integration......Page 99
A Thatcherite European policy, the budget dispute and the Westland affair......Page 101
The Single Market, Thatcherism in Europe......Page 104
‘You can’t buck the markets’, Conservative conflicts over the ERM......Page 107
The ERM and the leadership crisis......Page 111
Euroscepticism and renewing Thatcherism......Page 113
The end of Thatcher......Page 116
What kind of a victory?......Page 118
Conclusion: the emerging European crisis of the British state......Page 120
Majorism: the missing political strategy......Page 122
‘At the heart of Europe’......Page 125
The Maastricht negotiations: a Roman triumph?......Page 127
‘Black’ or ‘white’ Wednesday?......Page 130
Eurosceptic mobilisation and the Danish no-vote......Page 135
The Maastricht ratification and the European crisis of the British state......Page 138
Euroscepticism: a national movement for British exceptionalism......Page 141
Eurosceptics: the guardians of British exceptionalism......Page 145
Major’s Euroscepticism and the aftermath of the European crisis......Page 146
7 Labour in power: Anglo-Europe and Euroscepticism......Page 150
Re-asserting Anglo-Europeanism......Page 151
British exceptionalism continued......Page 152
Legitimation dilemmas and solutions......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 158
Bibliography......Page 162
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