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‘Muscular liberalism’: surviving multiculturalism? A historical and political contextualisation of David Cameron’s Munich speech

Vincent Latour
p. 199-216

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David Cameron’s Munich Speech (5th February 2011) has been frequently presented both as a major departure from New Labour’s approach to diversity and as a major blow to multiculturalism. It will be the aim of this article to qualify or indeed possibly challenge that view. The study of this speech will serve as an excuse to examine, one and a half years after the formation of the Coalition, how the new government has dealt with diversity-related issues and to what extent the hybrid nature of the new majority and the critical financial situation have impacted on the framing and reception of integration policies.

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Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral en août 2013.

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Cameron’s Munich speech: novel ideas?
Novel policies?
Near breaking point? The coalition and multiculturalism
Lib-Dem reactions to Cameron’s speech
Nick Clegg’s Luton speech as the antithesis of the Munich speech
Immigration, the London riots and ‘Islamism’
Conclusion

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David Cameron’s Munich Speech (5th February 2011) has been frequently presented both as a major departure from New Labour’s approach to diversity management and as a serious blow to multiculturalism. The speech echoed, that of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, in October 2010, had called German multikulti - a concept that emerged in the 1990s and 2000s -a ‘total failure’. The speech - Cameron’s first multiculturalism speech as Prime Minister - was delivered not as part of a European ministerial conference on integration (such summits have been held every other year since 2004 with a view to exchanging ‘good practices’) but as part of a European security conference.

The study of this speech will be an excuse for us to examine, one and a half years after the formation of the Coalition, how the new government has dealt with diversity-related issues and to what extent the hybrid nature of the new majority and the critical financial situation have impacted on the framing and reception...

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Vincent Latour, « ‘Muscular liberalism’: surviving multiculturalism? A historical and political contextualisation of David Cameron’s Munich speech », Observatoire de la société britannique, 12 | 2012, 199-216.

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Vincent Latour, « ‘Muscular liberalism’: surviving multiculturalism? A historical and political contextualisation of David Cameron’s Munich speech », Observatoire de la société britannique [En ligne], 12 | 2012, mis en ligne le 01 août 2013, consulté le 21 mai 2013. URL : http://osb.revues.org/1355 ; DOI : 10.4000/osb.1355

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Vincent Latour

Maître de conférences à l'Université de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail

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