1st Edition

Brexit and Liberal Democracy Populism, Sovereignty, and the Nation-State

By Amir Ali Copyright 2022
158 Pages
by Routledge India

158 Pages
by Routledge India

158 Pages
by Routledge India

This book analyses Brexit in the larger context of the crisis in liberal democracies and the continuing rise of 'nationalism'. With electoral verdicts favouring right-wing populists across the world, the volume argues that Brexit has become a key event in understanding global political currents, as well as emerging as a watershed moment in the current political climate. The author focuses on... Read more

1. Brexit: Beginning to write about a never-ending process 2. The Thatcherite Prelude to Brexit 3. Brexit, the 2007 financial crisis and Austerity 4. ‘Let’s take back control’: Brexit and the assertion of Sovereignty 5. Brexit and the worsening climate of democracy 6. Brexit, and the sum of all fears: Racism, Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism

Biography

Amir Ali teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Previously, he taught at the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and was Agatha Harrison Memorial Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has written a book on South Asian Islam and British Multiculturalism (Routledge, 2016).