Martin Westlake - Böcker

The 1994 Euro-elections may have marked a sea-change in British politics. This study is primarily about the short and complex 1994 Euro-campaign in Britain, but it places this in the more general context of Britain's awkward relations with its continental partners and the changing positions on Europe of British political parties.

Introduced with a preface by Jacques Delors, this volume offers new insights and develops generalised theories about the nature of European integration. The contributors step back from the detail of the latest intergovernmental conference and budgetary negotiations to generate conclusions of enduring value. The issues dealt with include the following:* Britain and integration* intergovernmental conferences* the rule of law* making foreign policy work* the democratic deficit.

This book brings together diverse voices spanning multiple generations, nationalities, institutional affiliations, and geographical contexts to examine contemporary developments in the study of personnel and professionals engaged in the European integration process. Edited by two distinguished authorities in the discipline, this comprehensive volume represents a significant scholarly contribution to the emerging field of European integration personnel studies.The collection presents a methodologically diverse array of empirical investigations, each grounded in original datasets and employing varied analytical frameworks. The chapters illustrate in a unique manner the state of the art in this rich subfield of European studies. This book is distinctive in taking stock of and reviewing new developments in the flourishing field of EU personnel and professional studies. Comprising a broad range of case studies, data, and methodologies, it constitutes an essential resource for specialists in European issues as well as for students seeking to engage at various levels with the European Union or within its institutions and processes.This book will serve as an essential resource for advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and established scholars specializing in European Union studies, comparative politics, and public administration. Academics and practitioners engaged in research on European governance, institutional analysis, and integration theory will find the volume particularly valuable. The work also addresses the needs of policy professionals and civil servants working within or alongside EU institutions who seek deeper understanding of the human dimensions of European integration.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK’s government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union.In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project. Rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union.

In the debates about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union, all sorts of possible alternatives have been bandied about, from “Singapore on the Thames” to “Canada Plus”, from “Switzerland” to “Ukraine”, from “Norway” to “Australia”. But what do these alternative relationship models really consist of and would they be viable for the UK?Martin Westlake brings together distinguished contributors to examine these various options, real and potential, and to consider whether they would offer a workable solution for the continued relationship between the EU and post-Brexit Britain.These essays offer expert insight into the scale and challenge of the practical issues facing Britain as it seeks to establish a new future with its largest trading partner.

In the debates about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union, all sorts of possible alternatives have been bandied about, from “Singapore on the Thames” to “Canada Plus”, from “Switzerland” to “Ukraine”, from “Norway” to “Australia”. But what do these alternative relationship models really consist of and would they be viable for the UK?Martin Westlake brings together distinguished contributors to examine these various options, real and potential, and to consider whether they would offer a workable solution for the continued relationship between the EU and post-Brexit Britain.These essays offer expert insight into the scale and challenge of the practical issues facing Britain as it seeks to establish a new future with its largest trading partner.

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU’s new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU’s new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.