Brexit in History - Sovereignty or a European Union? Heuser BeatricePevná vazba
Brexit in History - Sovereignty or a European Union? Heuser BeatricePevná vazba This is a stimulating work with an original perspective on the most important existential question in the UK since the…
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Brexit in History - Sovereignty or a European Union? Heuser BeatricePevná vazba
This is a stimulating work with an original perspective on the most important existential question in the UK since the Second World War. The result is an impressive synthesis of the evolution of power relationships within and between political entities.' -- Professor Michael Newman, author of Democracy, Sovereignty and the European UnionAre Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Rather than focusing on the minutiae of the on-going crisis, Beatrice Heuser considers Brexit in the light of the dialectic of Empire, sovereignty and co-operative syntheses throughout history.
The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their own sovereign independence. Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. Yet, since Antiquity, there has