Author : Alasdair Blair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429873522
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Book Synopsis Dealing with Europe by : Alasdair Blair
Download or read book Dealing with Europe written by Alasdair Blair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999. This book provides a detailed analysis of the positions and strategies adopted by Britain during the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conference which concluded in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. The main focus is on the questions of British policy coordination and the factors which determined the government’s position during the negotiations on European Political Union and European Monetary Union. This is the first major study which reconstructs the mechanisms of British policy making and notes the internal and external factors which shaped the construction of the government’s position on the major points of the negotiations. The hypothesis of the book is that domestic politics, primarily through the Prime Minister’s aim to maintain the unity of the Conservative Party, was the determining factor in shaping government policy. This view is based upon micro-level empirical analysis undertaken through a methodological approach of historical interpretation.