Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text employs various theories of foreign policy change to argue that Britain in the early 1970s did not make a fully coherent adaptation to EC membership. In particular, there were conceptual incoherences in the areas of sovereignty, relationship between the EC and member states, collective action to deal with economic interdependence and multilateral diplomacy. Confusions at UK government level were only reinforced by the processes of negotiation with Britain's new partners, 1970-1, and the characteristics of contemporary British domestic politics.