Britain's Failure to Enter the European Community, 1961-63: The Enlargement Negotiations and Crises in European, Atlantic and Commonwealth Relations

Format	Hardcover
ISBN	9780714646879
Publication Date	16/04/2006
Publisher	ROUTLEDGE
Manufacturer	Taylor & Francis Ltd

The essays in this collection outline the reasons why Britain failed to join the European Community in the early 1960s. These reasons include the Community's young age, disagreements over European strategy and political union, and the Commonwealth's importance to Britain.

The essays collected here outline a number of factors which made the EC too young to be able to assimilate Britain's important interests, and the British over-optimistic in their approach to negotiations with the Community. The role of conflict over Western strategy and European political union in the breakdown of the negotiations is re-assessed, and the negotiations over agriculture and the Commonwealth are revealed in an entirely new light.