Vernon Bogdanor - Britain and Europe in a Troubled World

Acknowledgments

This book is based on a set of Stimson Lectures, delivered at Yale University in April 2019. I was invited to give them by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale. I am deeply grateful to him, not only for honouring me with the invitation but for his wonderful hospitality and for the stimulus of his ideas and criticism. A number of other distinguished professors at Yale were generous enough to attend the lectures and to give me the benefit of their criticisms. I would like to thank, in particular, Professors Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Reed Amar, Paul Kennedy, and Joseph La Palombara. I count myself fortunate to have been a member, even if only for a short time, of such an invigorating society.

I have been fortunate also in that a number of other friends have been kind enough to criticise earlier versions of these lecturesRudolf Adam, Chris Beauman, Gareth Cadwallader, Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, Paul McIntyre, Luuk van Middelaar, Malcolm Murfett, Nancy Neville, Raymond Seitz, Sandy Sullivan, and Christopher Tugendhat. In addition, Tim Garton Ash and Madeleine Sumption were kind enough to respond to queries. I am also deeply grateful to Anthony Teasdale, co-editor of the invaluable Penguin Companion to European Union. Not only has he read the manuscript with great care and made many constructive suggestions, most of which I have adopted; he has also given me the benefit over many years of his deep knowledge both of the European Union and of the Conservative party. But none of these kind friends should be implicated in my arguments or conclusions, much less my errors, which are entirely my responsibility.

I am grateful also to Elisha Cruz, Lourdes Haynes, Ozan Say, Carol Sequino, and Jennie Shamasna who helped to make my stay at Yale so very comfortable and enjoyable. Thanks also to William Frucht, Philip King, and Karen Olson, who made publishing with Yale University Press so pleasant an experience

But my greatest debt is to my wife, Sonia, who not only read an early draft, making valuable criticisms, but also encouraged and sustained me throughout.