Review: Europe: The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-First Century
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800121 |
| Author | John Sutcliffe |
| Date | 01 March 2003 |
| Published date | 01 March 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Perhaps
not,
in
theory,
but
the
example
of
'safe
areas'
established
in
Bosnia
by
the Security
Council,
for
the
protection
of
which
United
Nations
member
states
were
never
willing
to
provide
the
necessary
mil-
itary
forces,
is
not
encouraging.
Canada
is
not
the
only
country
to
have
so
anticipated
a
'peace
dividend' at
the
end
of
the
cold
war
as
to
be
lit-
erally
incapable
of
sustaining
the
deployment
of
more
troops
for
even
the most
desirable
of
missions
overseas.
John
M.
Fraser/Ottawa
THE
BRITISH
CONTRIBUTION
TO
THE
EUROPE
OF
THE
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY
Edited
by
B.S.
Markesinis
Oxford:
Hart,
2002,
xi,
26 6
pp,
us$60.00,
ISBN
1-84113-276-4
This
edited
volume
began
life
as
a
conference
that
examined
the
British
contribution
to
Europe.
Perhaps
not
surprisingly,
given
the
broad theme,
the
result
is
an
eclectic
collection
covering
a
diversity
of
topics,
some
of
which
are
likely
to
appeal
only
to
specialized reader-
ships.
To
take
just
a
few
examples,
individual chapters
deal
with
the
different techniques
of
teaching
law
in
England
and
Germany;
the
problems
facing
British
historians
studying
the
Iberian
Peninsula; and
the
Warburg
Institute
as
a
microcosm
of
cultural
exchange between
Britain
and
Europe.
To
the
extent
that
any elements
of
the British-European
relationship
dominate
in
this
volume,
it
is
the
legal
and
political
aspects
of
the
rela-
tionship;
six
chapters
are
devoted
to
the
former
and
five
to
the
latter.
With
respect to
the
political
relationship,
Britain's
place
within
the
European
Union
(EU)
occupies
a
central
place in
the
various
contribu-
tions.
Kenneth
Dyson's
chapter,
for example, provides
a
sweeping
sur-
vey
of
the
factors
that
influence
Britain's
position
in
the
EU.
Dyson
indicates
that
this
relationship
is
likely
to
continue
to
be
controversial
because
the
EU
is
an
experimental
union
with
an
unclear
final
destina-
tion
and
because
of
conflict
over
identity
politics
in
Britain.
The
chapters
by
the politicians Douglas
Hurd
and
Laurent
Fabius
also
indicate
that
the
future relationship
will
contain
controversies.
Where
Hurd
suggests
that
co-operation
inside
the
EU
is
increasingly
moving
in
an
intergovernmental direction,
Fabius
argues
for deeper
co-operation,
especially
in
the
fields
of
economic and taxation
policy.
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