State and Nation in the United Kingdom
The Fractured Union
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 April 2021
- ISBN 9780198841371
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 242x161x21 mm
- Weight 514 g
- Language English 138
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Short description:
This book argues that there is a need for fresh thinking about the United Kingdom's constitution and the basis of the union.
MoreLong description:
The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which the key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.
Except in the mid-twentieth century, its territorial boundaries have been contested and the matter of sovereignty has never definitely been settled. Since the end of the twentieth century, devolution to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland has made this more apparent. With the weakening of the British national project, tensions between the centre and the peripheral nations have grown, greatly exacerbated by Brexit. Eurosceptics have long argued that membership of the European Union is inconsistent with the sovereignty of the British people and Parliament. On another reading, however, both the UK and the EU are plurinational unions and highly compatible. The EU, indeed, served as an important external support system for the devolution settlement. Brexit destabilizes it. Unionism historically served as a doctrine and a set of practices seeking to reconcile a unitary state with a plurinational reality. Since devolution, it has struggled to come to terms with the new constitutional reality or embrace the idea of shared sovereignty. The Union is under increasing strain but there is no simple way of resolving these strains, either by secession of the component nations, or a return to the unitary state. The peoples of these islands need to find new constitutional concepts for living together in a world in which traditional ideas of national sovereignty have lost their relevance.
Table of Contents:
Nation States and Political Unions
Union: Its Challengers in the United Kingdom
The Millenium Settlement
The Sovereignty Conundrum
Union at the Centre
Between Two Unions
Union and Unionisms in the United Kingdom
Economic Union
Social Union
The Public and the Union
The Future of the Union
