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Things I have posted recently
- The Year of Covid: Political religion and the Cultural Wars. Part 2.6. The Utilitarians: the birth of economics as a science. 18/04/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.5. The Utilitarians I: Elie Halévy and the Philosophical Radicals 1750-1867. 12/02/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity. 29/03/2022
- The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus. 03/02/2022
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages. 30/06/2021
- The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410. 26/02/2021
- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. 16/12/2020
- The UK Internal Market Bill: Supranational v. International law 14/09/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability. 11/07/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform. 27/06/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power. 16/05/2020
- China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia 25/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism? 09/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part IV. The pre-1945 Roots of British Supranationalism. 10/01/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part III. Efficiency, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Bureaucracy. 02/12/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament: Part IV. New law or constitutional aberration? 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part III. Assessment. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part II. The Arguments for and against. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part I: Definitions and timeline. 06/11/2019
- Apocalypse and Guilt: Why Savonarola and Greta differ. 01/10/2019
Tag Archives: world politics
Realpolitik and the European Union. Final Chapter: Part 2. The true challenge facing the Merkel-Macron tandem.
The UK’s certain idea of Europe. A USE maybe attainable. But the hurdles along the path towards it are innumerable, and as likely as not unknown. Not the least of these is that a USE would be at the very … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, EU, Euro, Europe, France, Germany, Globalization, Greece, interdependence, monetary union, Russia, supranationalism, UK, world politics
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Final Chapter: Part I. The true challenge facing the Merkel-Macron tandem.
Realpolitik- politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives-is flourishing in Europe. In fact, it never disappeared, but became absorbed within Europe’s society of states, dispersed and played out across and within the many international … Continue reading
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 11. Europe in the World. Part II. Russia, energy, demography.
The theme of Chapters 10 and 11 is the tension between a shrinking Europe living in an expanding world of nation states, while all the while seeking to dis-establish European nation states which experience global developments differentially. Chapter 10 discusses … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 10. Europe in the World:Part I. The US and the rise of Asia.
The transformation of the world. In the key years of 1989-1992, it was Europe, not the U.S., which had the distinction of being both source and origin of the process which came to be called “globalization”—understood driven as technologically conditioned … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 8. Germany learns to say Nein.
Germany learns to say Nein. The salient feature of the events of the first decade of the new millenium was Germany’s assertion of its position as the pivotal power in Europe. The novelty lies not in the fact of German … Continue reading
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Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 5: France’s voyage from state to market
France’s voyage from state to market. As with Germany, the years prior to 1945 cast a long shadow over post-war France. The defeat of 1940 was blamed by both Vichy and the Resistance on the failings of a liberal economy. … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 4. The Atlantic alliance, the UK and the EU.
The Euro is a neo liberal engine. One of the happy assumptions made by the advocates of the Euro holds that, if all member states hang on in there long enough, all will converge on a European norm, due to … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union: Chapter 3. The Rise of the DM
The rise of the DM. As Germany acquired formal, then effective sovereignty in Europe, France moved away from de Gaulle’s attempt to impose French primacy in the EEC, to accommodating Germany as a special partner in the 1970s, then to … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union. Chapter 2. Early years: France, the EEC, and the UK
Early years: France, the EEC, and the UK. A simple starting point is to observe that Europe and the EU are not the same thing. The EU has expanded from the founding six, to nine, then twelve, to fifteen and … Continue reading
Realpolitik and the European Union: Chapter 1. Europe and the EU
Europe and the EU The salient feature of the EU is that it seeks merger by integration, in contrast to the preferred pre-1945 method of merger by hostile takeover. Originally a French creation, designed to provide an answer to “the … Continue reading
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