Britain and Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10359264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Wall (European Union, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 325-333 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2012.02312.x |
| OpenAlex | W2093720758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Britain decided to join the European Community because its postwar, postimperial policies had failed and successive Governments saw no viable alternative. After ten years of being denied entry by De Gaulle, Britain joined on disadvantageous terms and with the British political parties, and the British people, deeply divided. Accession did not resolve the underlying issues and Britain's first year of membership saw an unprecedented oil crisis, bad relations between Britain and the United States and the demise of the British government led by Edward Heath. The underlying issues which had not been resolved in the accession negotiations were reopened by Harold Wilson and later by Margaret Thatcher. Some of them remain unresolved in British politics to this day
Accession · Demise · Economic history · Economics · European union · Government (linguistics · International trade · Join (topology · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |