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Regional resistance to European integration: the case of the Scottish National Party, 1961-1972
Regionaler Widerstand gegen die Europäische Integration: der Fall der 'Scottish National Party', 1961-1972
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Abstract 'This article examines the evolution of Scottish National Party (SNP) attitudes, policy, and rhetoric toward European integration between 1961 and 1972. Initially lukewarm, even positive, toward the proposed British membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), the party became increasingly h... view more
'This article examines the evolution of Scottish National Party (SNP) attitudes, policy, and rhetoric toward European integration between 1961 and 1972. Initially lukewarm, even positive, toward the proposed British membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), the party became increasingly hostile to EEC membership and adopted an aggressive anti-EEC position. By the early 1970s, the SNP was the leading anti-EEC political actor in Scotland, and it was the SNP's efforts that helped turn an ignored British foreign policy issue into a Scottish domestic political issue that had wider implications for Scotland's relationship with the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as for the ongoing Europeanization of Scottish politics and society.' (author's abstract)|... view less
Keywords
EU; international relations; party; foreign policy; historical analysis; Europeanization; European integration; national politics; Europe; resistance; political system; Great Britain; European Policy
Classification
General History
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
European Politics
Method
historical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 319-345
Journal
Historical Social Research, 33 (2008) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.33.2008.3.319-345
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed