Brexit in history : sovereignty or a European Union? / Beatrice Heuser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heuser, Beatrice, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--European Union countries.

Great Britain.

European Union countries--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

European Union countries.

Diplomatic relations.

Membership requirements.

European Union--Great Britain.

European Union.

European Union--Membership.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : C Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 2019.

Contents:

1 Introduction: the Dialectic of Empire, Sovereignty, and Co-operative Syntheses p. 1

State Systems: Neglected Dimension of International Relations Theory p. 3

2 Inter-'national' Relations? Problems of Terminology and Basic Assumptions p. 7

The Evolution of Words and Ideas p. 7

Prescriptions for Inter-Polity Relations p. 15

Geography, Geopolitics and Geostrategy p. 18

Demography and Identities p. 25

3 Ideas Inherited from Antiquity p. 43

One People, One God: the Israelites p. 44

Fighting for Liberty, and Rival Autarkic Polities: Ancient Greece p. 46

Alexander's Empire: Liberator or Tyrant? p. 52

Rome: Imperium becomes Empire and Pax Roman p. 54

4 The Middle Ages: the Christian Universe p. 59

The Restoration of the Roman Empire and Peace through Universal Empire p. 61

Three Forms of War vs Pax Dei and Landfrieden p. 67

The Outsiders' Bid for Independence: Sovereignty and Competition p. 69

Arbitration and Mediation p. 77

Dynastic Ambitions and Proto-Nationalism p. 80

How Europe Came to Rule the World p. 83

The Medieval System p. 85

5 Early Modern History: The Break-Down of the Universal Republic of Christendom p. 87

The Reformation p. 88

Imperium and Global Competition p. 91

The Holy Roman Empire vs Bodin's Sovereign State p. 94

Liberties vs Universality p. 101

The Turkish Threat p. 107

Raison d'état, Dynastic Competition and Balance-of-Power Wars p. 110

6 The Quest for a Peace System or a European Union, 1305-1796 p. 119

Pierre Dubois and King George Podiebrad p. 119

Crucé, Sully, and Penn p. 123

Nijmegen 1678 to Utrecht 1713: Balance of Power and Common Good over Dynastic Interest p. 128

The Abbé de Saint-Pierre and Jeremy Bentham p. 132

Guibert, the French Revolution, and Kant p. 137

Napoleon's Succession to the (Holy Roman) Empire p. 142

Gentz's Critique of the Confederative Proposals p. 144

7 From Great-Power Oligarchy to Nationalist Competition, 1813-1918 p. 149

The Congress System: Concert of Great Powers p. 149

Bluntschli vs Moltke p. 160

Colonial Empires for all and the Growth of Nationalism p. 164

8 Recreating a Universal Order I: the League of Nations p. 175

A European Alternative? p. 181

The 1929 Financial Crisis, the Return of National Interests, and the Drift to War p. 184

9 Recreating a Universal Order II: the United Nations in the Cold War p. 189

Western Defence Co-operation: WU, WEU and NATO p. 191

10 European Integration: between Confederation and Federation p. 201

Defence Integration or a Europe of the Fatherlands? p. 208

11 From the Renewed UN Concert to the New Cold War p. 217

The 'New World Order' or the hope that the Pentarchy will Finally Work p. 223

Cold War II and the Return to Sovereigntism p. 228.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1787381269

9781787381261

OCLC:

1055265137

Publisher Number:

99980628576