The Commonwealth and Britain’s Turn to Europe, 1945–73
The Commonwealth and Britain’s Turn to Europe, 1945–73
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英联邦和英国转向欧洲，1945-73
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10.1080/00358533.2013.764082
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2013
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A. May
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A. May
摘要二战后的几十年里，英国的外交政策制定者试图将英国的外交政策框定在英联邦、美国和西欧这三个“圈子”中。欧洲一体化的进程有可能将英国排除在一个圈子之外，并严重削弱其在其他两个圈子中的影响力。英联邦的吸引力正在减弱，但它仍然是英国在1961年至1963年加入欧洲共同体的第一次谈判中最重要的问题。到1966- 1967年第二次申请时，英联邦国家已经作出了替代处置，英联邦本身也变得越来越分裂;因此，英联邦在当时或随后的1970- 1971年成功谈判中不是一个问题。然而，英国的申请代表了英联邦以及英欧关系的分水岭。
Abstract British policy-makers in the decades after the Second World War sought to frame British foreign policy in terms of three ‘circles’, the Commonwealth, the US and western Europe . Moves towards European integration threatened to shut Britain out of one circle and severely diminish its influence in the other two. The pull of the Commonwealth was fading, but it remained the single most important issue in Britain’s first negotiations to join the European Communities, in 1961–63. By the time of the second application in 1966–67 Commonwealth countries had made alternative dispositions and the Commonwealth was itself becoming increasingly fractured; hence, the Commonwealth was less of an issue then or in the subsequent successful negotiations in 1970–71. Britain’s applications nevertheless represent a watershed in British–Commonwealth as well as British–European relations.