William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire

William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire

William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire (born March 12, 1941 in Leicester ) is a British political scientist , historian , university professor , author and politician of the Liberal Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 1995 .

Life

Education

Wallace attended Westminster Abbey Choir School and sang in the choir at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. After further attending St Edward's School in Oxford , he began in 1959 to study history at King's College of the University of Cambridge , with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). During his studies he attended events of the student associations of the Conservative Party , the Labor Party and the Liberal Party, but then decided to join the Liberal Party and became Vice President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1961 .

After completing his studies at the University of Cambridge, he moved to Cornell University in 1963 , where he worked on his dissertation for a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) . In 1966 he completed his PhD with a dissertation on the Liberal Revival of 1955-66 at the University of Oxford , but received his degree as Ph.D. from Cornell University.

University professor

Wallace then began his professional activity as a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1966 , where he worked until 1977. After that, he served from 1978 to 1990 as Director of Studies of the Royal Institute of International Affairs before he 1990-1990 bis 1995 Walter Hallstein -Research Fellow at the of Ralf Dahrendorf led St Antony's College was the University of Oxford.

In 1993 he also became a visiting professor for international relations at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest , founded in 1991 , and taught there until 1996.

At the same time, he became a lecturer in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1995 and finally took over a professorship there in 1999 . He held this teaching position until his retirement in 2005.

Political career

Unsuccessful candidacies for the lower house

In addition to teaching, Wallace began his political work in the Liberal Party in the mid-1960s and was the party's press assistant during the election campaign in the general election on March 31, 1966 .

Then he ran himself five times without success for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons and indeed in the general election on 18 June 1970 in the constituency Huddersfield West , on February 28, 1974 and October 10, 1974 in the constituency Manchester Moss Side and elections from 9 June 1983 and 11 June 1987 in Shipley .

Meanwhile, Wallace, who was also speechwriter for party chairman David Steel , served from 1977 to 1987 as vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liberal Party.

House of Lords and volunteer work

In 1995 he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a life peer entitled Baron Wallace of Saltaire , of Shipley in the County of West Yorkshire . On 20 December 1995 its introduction (carried Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

During his long membership in the House of Lords, Lord Wallace was initially spokesman for the Liberal Democrats Group on Defense between 1997 and 2001 and, for another twelve years, from 1998 to 2010 Group spokesman for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth of Nations Affairs . Between 2004 and 2010 he also served as deputy group leader ( Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Peers ) and from 2007 to 2008 as parliamentary group spokesman for justice.

After the general election on May 6, 2010 and the subsequent formation of a coalition government made up of the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats, Lord Wallace has been Parliamentary Secretary ( Government Whip ) of the Liberal Democrats since 2010 and also retained his post as parliamentary spokesman for foreign and Commonwealth affairs. He has also been the political group spokesman for Defense since then, and for some time in 2010 he was also the political group spokesman for higher education, business, innovation and skills. After he was parliamentary group spokesman for security from 2010 to 2011, he has also been spokesman for the Liberal Democrats for the Cabinet Office since 2011.

Furthermore, engaged Lord Wallace, who since his own education at the Westminster Abbey Choir School for choral music interested when trustee of the National Children's Choir , as well as chairman of the professional choir Voces Cantabiles . He is also Vice President of the Upper Wharfedale Agricultural Society and a member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative .

Publications

In the course of his professional and political life to date, Lord Wallace has published numerous non-fiction books on political topics, such as Policy-making in the European Union , which is now in its fifth edition, together with his wife Helen Wallace , who was also a professor at the London School of Economics , which was first published in 1977. His most famous works include:

• A against the European Community? Issues and problems of further enlargement , co-author Geoffrey Edwards, London, 1976
• The Foreign Policy Process in Britain , London, Allen and Unwin, 1977
• Reform of Government , London, Liberal Publications Department, 1977
• Foreign Policy Making in Western Europe: A Comparative Approach , co-author William Peterson, Farnborough, Hants, Saxon House, 1978
• The Illusion of Sovereignty , London, Liberal Publications Department, 1979
• Britain in Europe , London, Heinemann, 1980
• Economic Divergence in the European Community , Associate Editor Michael Hodges, London, RIIA, 1981
• Britain's bilateral links within Western Europe , London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984
• Options for British foreign policy in the 1990s , co-author Christopher Tugendhat, London, RIIA, 1988
• Introduction - “the dynamics of European integration. The dynamics of European integration ” , London and New York, Pinter Publishers, 1990
• The nation state and foreign policy. French and British foreign policies in transition - the challenge of adjustment , New York, Berg Publishers, 1990
• The transformation of Western Europe , London, Pinter, 1990
• West European unity - implications for peace and security. Towards a future European peace order? , Basingstoke, Macmillan Academic and Professional Publishing, 1991
• The Dynamics of European Integration , London, Pinter, 1991
• Regional integration: the West European experience , Washington, DC, Brookings Institution, 1994
• Flying Together in a Larger and More Diverse European Union , co-author Helen Wallace, Den Haag, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, 1995
• Opening the Door: the enlargement of NATO and the European Union , London, Center for European Reform, 1996
• Why Vote Liberal Democrat , London, Penguin, 1997
• Liberal Democrats and the Third Way , London, Center for European Reform, 1998
• Walter Hallstein: the forgotten European? , Co-authors Wilfried Loth and Wolfgang Wessells, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998
• Rethinking European Order: West European Responses, 1989-97, Associate Editor Robin Niblett, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000
• Non-state actors in world politics , co-author Daphne Josselin, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001
• Reconciliation in Cyprus: the window of opportunity , Florence, European University Institute, 2002
• Policy-making in the European Union , Associate Editors Helen Wallace, and Mark A. Pollack, 5th edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 (1st edition, 1977)
• William Wallace, “Europe or Anglosphere? British Foreign Policy Between Atlanticism and European Integration ” (London: John Stuart Mill Institute, 2005)

in German language

• European political cooperation: a model for a European foreign policy? , Co-author David J. Allen, Bonn, Europa-Union-Verlag, 1976

Web links

Commons : William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on February 7, 2016)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 9, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Introduction of Baron Wallace of Saltaire . In: Hansard (December 20, 1995)
2. ↑ Members & Advisory Board ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Atlantic Initiative website, accessed August 21, 2012.