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Britain and the commonwealth: confronting the past-imagining the future / Murphy, Philip

Murphy, Philip	Journal Article
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2011.

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This is an extended version of Philip Murphy's inaugural lecture as director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, delivered on 23 February 2011. It traces the relationship of the UK with the wider Commonwealth over 40 years, paying particular attention to the rhetoric of governments and opposition parties from Wilson and Heath to Cameron. It examines the reasons for the Commonwealth being relegated to a peripheral role in British foreign policy, especially European preoccupations and the issues of Rhodesia and South Africa. It argues that the Commonwealth remains of considerable practical and enormous symbolic importance to the UK. The British government should engage with the Commonwealth more than it has done in the recent past and the Commonwealth should be both open to and critical of its imperial past.

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Commonwealth ; South Africa ; Rhodesia ; British Government ; Commonwealth Effect

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ID: 102746

Commonwealth effect revisited / Bennett, Joanna; Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan

Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article argues that, even as the Commonwealth has been seen by some commentators to have lost some of its political salience, its attractiveness as a trading bloc remains as strong as ever. It draws on recent research that indicates very healthy growth rates in intra-Commonwealth trade, and that reaffirms the continuing relevance of the 'Commonwealth effect' identified by Ludan and Jones in 2001.

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Commonwealth ; Trade ; Business ; Commonwealth Business Council ; Edinburgh Declaration ; COMTRADE ;
Commonwealth Effect

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