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‘Concentric Circles’ at the Periphery of the European Union
Author(s) -
Muller Karis
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8497.00100
Subject(s) - member states , colonialism , european union , colonial rule , state (computer science) , political science , member state , first world war , political economy , economic history , economy , international trade , history , law , economics , ancient history , algorithm , computer science
After World War II when the governments of several European states attempted to form supranational groupings, colonial obligations posed problems that persist to this day. The article traces immediate postwar history, outlining the present relationship between the EC institutions and what remain of member‐state Empires, before proceeding to two case studies. The first concerns the ramifications of ‘Euroland’ in present or past dependencies after European Monetary Union. The second considers the role of European dependencies in military alliances and analyses how one of the founding Treaties was used in the mid‐1990s after the discovery that it applied extra‐territorially. The conclusion is that the external border of multi‐speed Europe is even more variable than it might otherwise be because of the attachments some member states retain to colonial remnants.