THE ‘PARRY REPORT’ (1965) AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
GABRIEL PAQUETTE
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Academic Politics

AbstractThis article examines the origins of the ‘Parry Report’ (1965), the implementation of which led to the massive expansion of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom. Drawing on material from several archives, the article argues that the Report was the product of a peculiar geopolitical conjuncture – decolonization, the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Britain's rejection from the European Economic Community – that prompted the Foreign Office to convene a group of academics (and selected others) from institutions then in the process of formalizing links with US-based private foundations. It seeks to show how extramural and intramural factors, geopolitics and academic politics, combined to generate an interdisciplinary area study that survived long after the conditions that had given rise to its genesis had disappeared.

State and Private Pension Schemes in the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom

1963 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. N. Ratcliff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
The Common

The European Economic Community came into existence on 1 January 1958, following the ratification of the Treaty of Rome by the parliaments of the six member countries, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The long-term aim of ‘The Six’ in setting up the Community was to achieve a unified economic unit with a common economic policy, and whilst commonly referred to in the United Kingdom as the Common Market it should not be thought of merely as an advanced form of customs union.

When Germany Accepted a European Industrial Policy: Managing the Decline of Steel from 1977 to 1984

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Warlouzet
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Member States ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Steel Sector ◽  
Supranational Institutions

Abstract From 1977 to 1984, an ambitious European industrial policy was implemented by the European Economic Community for the first and only time in its history. It dealt with the crisis of the steel sector. This paper strives to understand why member states chose this solution, despite the fact that some of them were hostile to the devolution of power to supranational institutions, as for example Britain or France. The most reluctant state was Germany, whose officials usually associated any attempts of EEC-wide industrial policy with dirigism. The paper, based on archives of three governments (Germany, France, the United Kingdom) and of the European Commission, argues that the European solution was best for member states, and in particular for Germany, in order to control their neighbours and avoid a costly subsidy race.

From the Treasury Diaries of Sir Alec Cairncross: Four Anglo-French Conflicts 1967–8

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Alec Cairncross
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
International Liquidity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Special Drawing ◽  
International Importance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Special Drawing Rights

In the 1960s, when I was Head of the (UK) Government Economic Service, I kept a private diary of conversations and events which has just been published. The excerpts from the diary which appear below relate to what I learned in 1967–8 about French attitudes to issues of international importance in which the United Kingdom was involved. The diary deals with four such issues: (1) the British application to join the European Economic Community; (2) the proposals to add to international liquidity through the creation of a new unit or, alternatively, of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); (3) the British devaluation of 1967; and (4) the Bonn Conference in November 1968, at which it was widely expected that agreement would be reached to devalue the franc and revalue the mark.

scholarly journals Does Brexit Spell the Death of Transnational Law?

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Michaels
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

Philip Jessup would not be pleased. Exactly sixty years after he published his groundbreaking book onTransnational Law, a majority of voters in the United Kingdom decided they wanted none of that. By voting for the UK to leave the European Union, they rejected what may well be called the biggest and most promising project of transnational law. Indeed, the European Union (including its predecessor, the European Economic Community), is nearly as old Jessup's book. Both are products of the same time. That invites speculation that goes beyond the immediate effects of Brexit: Is the time of transnational law over? Or can transnational law be renewed and revived?

Council of Europe

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 288-293 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Stabilizing Effect

The ninth joint meeting of the European Parliament (formerly the European Parliamentary Assembly) and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe was held in Strasbourg on September 17 and 18, 1962, under the joint presidency of Mr. Gaetano Martino, President of the European Parliament, and Mr. Per Federspiel, President of the Consultative Assembly. The debates were based on two reports, one presented by Mr. Edoardo Martino (Italian Christian Democrat), on behalf of the European Parliament, and the other by Mr. Georges Margue (Luxembourg Social Christian) for the Consultative Assembly. Mr. Martino, in speaking of the future of the European Economic Community (EEC), commented that the success of the negotiations with the United Kingdom would have a stabilizing effect on the whole of Europe. Mr. Margue, after paying tribute to the progress of EEC, stressed the importance of defense problems in connection with the development of Europe, and listed the most salient features of this question.

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