UK Challenge to Europeanization (eBook)

Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Professor of British Studies, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France Cornelius Crowley, Professor of British Studies, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France Oliver Daddow, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Chichester, UK John FitzGibbon, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Dr Chris Gifford, Head of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK Catherine MacMillan, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey Dr. Andrew Mycock, Reader in Politics, University of Huddersfield, UK Pauline Schnapper, Professor of British Studies, University of Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Nicholas Sowels, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Dr Menno Spiering, literary historian and a co-founder of the programme of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Karine Tournier-Sol, Senior Lecturer in British politics, University of Toulon, France Hajnalka Vincze, independent security and defence policy analyst Ben Wellings, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University, and Deputy-director of the Monash European and EU Centre, Australia

Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Figures and Tables 8
Acknowledgements 9
Contributors 10
Introduction: The Structure of British Euroscepticism 13
Part I Nation and National Identity 27
1 The Essential Englishman: The Cultural Nature andOrigins of British Euroscepticism 28
2 ‘Beyond Awkwardness: England, the European Union andthe End of Integration’ 44
3 Beyond the English? The UK’s Pluri-NationalEuroscepticism 62
4 British Euroscepticism and the Geopolitics of aPost-Imperial Britain 84
Part II Party Politics and Euroscepticism 107
5 Reassessing British Conservative Euroscepticism as a Caseof Party (Mis)Management 108
6 The Dilemma of Pro-European Parties in the UK: The Caseof Labour and the Liberal Democrats Since 2010 126
7 The UKIP Challenge 143
Part III Eurosceptic Civil Society 157
8 Performing Euroscepticism: The UK Press and Cameron’sBloomberg Speech 158
9 Extra-Parliamentary Eurosceptic Actors in the UK 179
Part IV Eurosceptic Interests? 196
10 British Political Discourse on the EU in the Context ofthe Eurozone Crisis 197
11 The Role of Finance in the UK’s Relationship with theEuropean Union 216
12 The Transatlantic Dimension of British Euroscepticism 238
Index 255