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13 Nov 2009 @ 12:45Does Britain Have a European Policy?
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Renowned foreign policy expert, European integration theorist and international relations scholar William Wallace addressed his audience on contemporary Britain's complicated relationships with its European neighbours and with the EU.
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William Wallace (Lord Wallace of Saltaire) is a Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader in the House of Lords and a spokesperson for Home Affairs and Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Widely recognised as one of the UK’s pre-eminent analysts of European integration and British foreign policy, Lord Wallace was Director of Studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) from 1978-1990. Since then he has held academic posts at Manchester, Oxford (St. Antony’s College) and the Central European University and published several books including The Transformation of Western Europe (1990), Regional Integration: the West European Experience (1995), Rethinking European Order (with Robin Niblett, 2001), and Non-State Actors in Global Politics (with Daphne Josselin, 2001). He has also published five editions of Policy Making in the European Union in collaboration with his wife, Helen Wallace (Lady Wallace of Saltaire).
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Thanks for posting this excellent lecture. I've blogged about it on my website: http://www.eur-policy.com
I would like to know if the Queen has signed the Lisbon treaty and if indeed England, Scotland, Ireland will be no more as of this January/10 and if The Queen will no longer be considered the head of the Anglican Church.