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DESCRIPTION:I will reflect on my experience of writing two related books on
  the prominent late twentieth-century British Conservative politicians Eno
 ch Powell (1912-98)\, who set the political agenda\, and Margaret Thatcher
  (1925-2013)\, who was UK Prime Minister for over 11 years. The books grap
 ple with one of the conference’s main themes: understanding the historic
 al precedents of a connected but not globalised world by examining two fig
 ures whose political careers were spent in the shadow of the Cold War.\nAm
 id divisions between East and West from the mid-1940s\, I will discuss Pow
 ell and Thatcher’s evolving (and distinct) viewpoints on: the British Em
 pire and Commonwealth\; relations with the United States and the Soviet Un
 ion\; nuclear weapons\; neoliberalism (pitting economic and political free
 dom against centralised state control)\; and UK membership of the European
  Community. In each area\, the arguments advanced by Powell and Thatcher w
 ere shaped\, in different ways\, by commitments to the British nation\, wh
 ich characterised their Conservatism. I will reflect on methodology\, in p
 articular my concern to take seriously the ideas of politicians (and the s
 peeches through which they articulated them) and to place them firmly in t
 heir domestic and international political context. I will give prominence 
 to Asia\, ranging from Powell’s experiences in India in the 1940s throug
 h to Thatcher’s views of Chinese (and as opposed to Soviet) Communism an
 d to her suggestion\, in the mid-1980s\, that South Korea engage more with
  North Korea – following her example of building contacts with the Sovie
 t Union and Eastern Europe).
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LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Paul Corthorn\, author of Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Moder
 n Britain (Oxford University Press (OUP)\, 2019\; paperback\, 2022)\; and 
 Thatcher’s Cold War: The Battle of Ideas (forthcoming\, OUP\, 2026 - Pau
 l Corthorn
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/CXEFYG/
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