'The Empire of England': Enoch Powell, Sovereignty, and the Constitution of the Nation
'The Empire of England': Enoch Powell, Sovereignty, and the Constitution of the Nation
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《英格兰帝国》：伊诺克·鲍威尔、主权和国家宪法
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10.1093/tcbh/hwaa022
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发表时间：
2021
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0.9
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Aqui L
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Aqui L
以诺鲍威尔的“血河”演讲50周年纪念日使现代英国政治史上最具争议的人物之一重新回到了公众辩论中。鲍威尔仍然与他在20世纪60年代和70年代在种族和移民问题上采取的立场有着不可磨灭的联系，但近年来，人们看待他的政治和公共论点的透镜有所扩大。本文有助于这种重新评价，认为他的思想的中心方面是由他在20世纪50年代初对主权，代表性和民族国家的高度独特的思考。它表明，鲍威尔对民族国家内部结构和对外关系的立场是相互交织的，并在他的整个职业生涯中相当一致地应用，这体现了他在20世纪70年代对欧洲和阿尔斯特的争议问题以及移民问题上的立场。我们对他的思想的描述挑战了他的解释者将他对国际关系和联合王国内部政治的观点视为不同主题的倾向，以及对政治机会主义的指责，这一直是评论他政治生涯的中心主题。
The 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech brought back into public debate one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. Powell remains indelibly linked to the stances he took on race and immigration in the 1960s and 1970s, but in recent years there has been a widening of the lens through which his politics and public arguments are viewed. This article contributes to this reappraisal, arguing that central aspects of his thinking were shaped by his highly distinctive reflections on sovereignty, representation, and the nation state in the early 1950s. It demonstrates that Powell’s positions on both the internal configuration of the nation state and its external relations were intertwined, and were applied by him on a fairly consistent basis throughout his career, informing the stances he took on the contentious issues of Europe and Ulster in the 1970s, as well as immigration. Our account of his thinking challenges both the tendency of his interpreters to treat his views on international relations and the internal politics of the United Kingdom as thematically distinct, and the accusation of political opportunism that has been a central motif in commentary on his political career.