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Buttering up: Britain, New Zealand and negotiations for European Community enlargement, 1970–71
The International History Review Pub Date : 2020-05-13 , DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2020.1759673
Hamish McDougall 1
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Abstract

There is widespread perception that Britain’s entry to the European Community in 1973 was a ‘shock’ for Commonwealth nations. In the most extreme views, Britain is seen to have ‘abandoned’ or ‘betrayed’ the interests of its former colonies and long-time allies, particularly the ‘old Commonwealth’ nations of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, thereby accelerating decolonial independence. Yet an examination of British accession in the early 1970s does not necessarily support this view, especially when using New Zealand as a political case study. New Zealand’s political and economic response to European integration was not sudden; rather, it was sustained over decades. New Zealand strived, largely successfully, to retain as much of its traditional export trade with Britain as possible while simultaneously diversifying elsewhere. Despite being a small nation as far from western Europe as it is possible to be, the New Zealand Government exerted disproportionate influence on the terms of British entry, partly because of Westminster parliamentary opinion. Far from a betrayal, the British Government went to extraordinary lengths to secure a satisfactory arrangement for New Zealand in accession negotiations in 1970-71. This research is the first to examine the topic using British, New Zealand and continental European sources. It adds to the relatively limited historiography on European integration and third countries and separately, on Britain and European integration in the 1970s.



中文翻译:

加油:英国,新西兰和扩大欧洲共同体的谈判,1970–71年

摘要

人们普遍认为,1973年英国加入欧洲共同体对英联邦国家来说是“震惊”。从最极端的观点来看,英国被视为“放弃”或“背叛”了其先前殖民地和长期盟友的利益,特别是澳大利亚,加拿大和新西兰的“旧联邦”国家,从而加速了殖民主义的独立性。然而,在1970年代初期对英国的加入进行审查并不一定支持这种观点,尤其是在将新西兰作为政治案例研究时。新西兰对欧洲一体化的政治和经济反应并不是突然的。相反,它持续了数十年。新西兰在很大程度上成功地努力保持了与英国的尽可能多的传统出口贸易,同时在其他地方实现了多元化。尽管新西兰是一个尽可能远离西欧的小国,​​但新西兰政府对英国的入境条款施加了不成比例的影响,部分原因是威斯敏斯特议会的意见。英国政府绝不背叛,竭尽全力为新西兰在1970-71年的加入谈判中取得令人满意的安排。这项研究是首次使用英国,新西兰和欧洲大陆资源来研究该主题的研究。它增加了关于欧洲一体化和第三国以及1970年代英国和欧洲一体化的相对有限的历史学。部分原因是威斯敏斯特议会的意见。英国政府绝不背叛,竭尽全力为新西兰在1970-71年的加入谈判中取得令人满意的安排。这项研究是首次使用英国,新西兰和欧洲大陆资源来研究该主题的研究。它增加了关于欧洲一体化和第三国以及1970年代英国和欧洲一体化的相对有限的历史学。部分原因是威斯敏斯特议会的意见。英国政府绝不背叛,竭尽全力为新西兰在1970-71年的加入谈判中取得令人满意的安排。这项研究是首次使用英国,新西兰和欧洲大陆资源来研究该主题的研究。它增加了关于欧洲一体化和第三国以及1970年代英国和欧洲一体化的相对有限的历史学。

更新日期:2020-05-13
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