William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire

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

Life

Study

Wallace attended the Westminster Abbey Choir School and sang in the choir at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. After another visit to the St Edward 's School, Oxford, he began in 1959 a study of the historical sciences at King's College, University of Cambridge, which he with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History) completed. During his studies he attended events organized by the student associations of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Party, but then decided to join the Liberal Party and in 1961 vice-president of the Cambridge University Liberal Club.

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

University teacher

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

He was also a Visiting Professor of International Relations, founded in 1991, Central European University ( CEU ) in Budapest and taught there until 1996, 1993.

At the same time in 1995 he became a lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE ), and finally took over in 1999 appointed professor of International Relations. This teaching he held until his retirement in 2005.

Political career

Unsuccessful candidates for the House

Besides his teaching, Wallace began in the mid -1960s, his political work in the Liberal Party and served as press assistant to the party during the election campaign in the general election on 31 March 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 at the constituency Huddersfield West, on February 28, 1974 to October 10, 1974 in the constituency of Manchester Moss Side and elections 9 June 1983 and 11 June 1987 in Shipley.

In the meantime acted Wallace, who was also a speech writer of party leader David Steel from 1977 to 1987 as Vice - Chairman of the Liberal Party Standing Committee.

House of Lords member and volunteer work

In 1995, he was raised by a Letters Patent as a life peer with the title Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Shipley of in the County of West Yorkshire in the peerage. On 20 December 1995, its introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.

During his many years with the House of Lords Lord Wallace was between 1997 and 2001, first Speaker of the Group of the Liberal Democrats on defense and also for twelve years from 1998 to 2010 spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations. In addition, he served between 2004 and 2010 as Group Vice Chairman ( Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat peers) as well as in the years 2007 to 2008 as the spokesperson on Justice.

After the general election on 6 May 2010 and the subsequent formation of a coalition government of the Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats Lord Wallace since 2010 Parliamentary Secretary (Government Whip ) the Liberal Democrats and also retained his position as spokesperson on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In addition, he has since also spokesperson on defense and in 2010 was for some time at the same time spokesperson on higher education and business, innovation and skills. After he was spokesperson on security from 2010 to 2011, since 2011, spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, he is also responsible for the Cabinet Office.

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

Publications

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

• 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, co-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, 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, The Hague, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, 1995
• Opening the Door: the enlargement of NATO and the European Union, London, Centre for European Reform, 1996
• Why Vote Liberal Democrat, London, Penguin, 1997
• Liberal Democrats and the Third Way, London, Centre 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, co-editor 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)

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