@article{2014:simms:scotland_,
title = {Scotland, the British question and the European problem: A Churchillian solution},
year = {2014},
note = {Continental Europe and the United Kingdom face a series of
interlocking constitutional, economic and strategic challenges today,
ranging from the Scottish Question, through the English Problem, the
relationship between London and Brussels, the threat of Russian
territorial revisionism in the east, to the future of the common
currency and thus of the Union itself. This article shows that all
these problems not merely interact with and aggravate each other, but
that they all have their origin in one great European question, which
is how to order the continent and relations within the British Isles
in such a way as to ensure the survival of parliamentary government
against external attack. After looking back at the historically
successful Anglo-American models of political union, both of which
were primarily devised in order to repel potential aggressors, the
article finishes with a recommendation for a full federal union of the
Eurozone, in confederation with the United Kingdom to manage the
single market. It would solve all these problems by creating a state
robust enough to solve the euro crisis and to deter Mr Putin, and
thereby Europe so strong as to render it unappealing for Scots wishing
to break away from the United Kingdom, who would then have no other
home except full independence outside of both Unions, which is
improbable.},
journal = {ZSE Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften | Journal for Comparative Government and European Policy},
pages = {456--483},
author = {Simms, Brendan},
volume = {12},
number = {4}
}