The Common Market and its Colonial Heritage

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ID10076296
AuthorsCarol Ann Cosgrove (corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume4
Issue1
Pages73-87
Publication date1969-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002200946900400105
OpenAlexW2068946039
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The nation is the first reality of the twentieth century... while the second... is the interdependence of races, continents and nations.'l The contemporary phenomenon of nationalism and, paradoxically, the concurrent move towards regional integration are unprecedented. The nationalist impulse, linked with militant anti-colonialism, has resulted in a proliferation of new states for whom untrammelled sovereign equality is the most insistent goal and independence the supreme good. At the same time the nationstate in its oldest established form is being reshaped by the movement for regional integration in Europe, as exemplified in the European Economic Community. Few statesmen today would assert that independence and interdependence are mutually exclusive or that one trend has primacy over the other: throughout the greater part of the world they co-exist. The relations established between the Six of the European Common Market and the eighteen African Associated States provide an interesting field of enquiry where these two trends coalesce, especially in view of the neo-colonialist image that the EEC has acquired in initiating and continuing this special arrangement. An assessment of the validity of the numerous allegations ofneo-colonialism levelled against the Common Market is central to this argument. That the EEC was endowed with a colonial heritage is not in dispute, but how far was this a common Community responsibility rather than the projection of particular national engagements on to the collective level ? To what extent were the interests of the member states as metropoles affected by the initiation of the Common Market project ? Does the Association of African and Malagasy States merely ensure the continua

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Political science · African history and culture studies · Global Political and Social Dynamics · History

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