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Flashcards by Emilie Melzer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emilie Melzer
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| Question | Answer |
| Notion of Insularity | Geography - |
| Insularity | Geography: -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) |
| Appeasement Policy | 1930 - 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 |
| Britishness | Imperial 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 |
| White man's burden | GB thought it was their role to bring civilization to rest of the world that was inferior to them |
| Britishness 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 |
| Diplomacy (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 |
| Churchill | 2x 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 |
| Diplomacy in 3 circles - by Churchill | Britain = only country in all three circles = balance of world thus rested on Britain |
| Key principles - how UK has behaved towards Europe | 1. 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 |
| Problems with EU's and GB's compatibility | not compatible in 1. traditions 2. politics - rigidity 3. objectives/ambitions |
| ECSC & Schuman Paln | European 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 |
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