Principles and practices of British international policy: ruptures and continuities since 1941

In the context of the 80th anniversary of the Atlantic Charter and Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, this conference seeks to reflect on understandings of sovereignty, self-determination and self-government, their place in public discourse and their translation into British policies – local, national and international. 

Chair: Adrien Rodd, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin

• Tommaso Milani, European University Institute: ‘An Anti-Atlantic Programme? E. H. Carr, Conditions of Peace, and Britain’s European Role’
• David Grealy, Lancaster University: ‘Transatlantic Triangulations: Britain’s Human Rights Diplomacy and US-EC Relations, 1977-79’
• Louise Dalingwater, Sorbonne Université: ‘Britain’s post Brexit trade deals: Taking back control or a threat to sovereignty?’

This panel session was part of the Afterlives of the Atlantic Charter: sovereignty, self-determination and self-government in British politics since 1941 Conference which was organised and supported by Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Institut universitaire de France, Université de Picardie Jules Verne/CORPUS and Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin/CHCSC.

Speaker(s): Tommaso Milani, David Grealy and Louise Dalingwater

Event date: Thursday, 10 June 2021 - 10:30am