For example, in the Cohn-Bendit case (1978), 1 CMLR 543, where the conseil d’etat simply disregarded previous decisions of the European Court of Justice, decided that Community law could not be invoked in this case affecting public order, and quashed a decision of the lower court to refer the case to the European Court of Justice.
I am indebted to Martin Howe both for these suggestions, made in his pamphlet Europe and the Constitution After Maastricht (Society of Conservative Lawyers, June 1992), and for other helpful and stimulating suggestions which have influenced my thinking on these matters.
I have described this visit in The Downing Street Years, pp. 806-7.
The Downing Street Years, p. 767.
New York Times, 6 August 1992. Copyright © 1992 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History?’, The National Interest, Summer 1989. In the many subsequent debates it was sometimes forgotten that Mr Fukuyama had qualified his provocative assertion as follows: ‘This is not to say that there will no longer be events to fill the pages of Foreign Affairs’s yearly summaries of international relations, for the victory of liberalism has occurred primarily in the realm of ideas or consciousness and is as yet incomplete in the real or material world. But there are powerful reasons for believing that it is the ideal that will govern the material world in the long run.’
Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
See Jonathan Sunley’s pamphlet Hungary: The Triumph of Compromise, Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1993.
These issues are examined by Neil Melvin in Forging the New Russian Nation, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Discussion Paper 50, 1994.
See The Downing Street Years, p. 258.
William E. Odom, ‘Strategic Realignment in Europe — NATO’s Obligation to the East’, in NATO — The Case for Enlargement, Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, 1993.
