1st Edition

Small States of the European Union and Brexit

Edited By Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira Copyright 2024
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

This book seeks to offer a better understanding of the strategic responses to Brexit from ten small European Union (EU) member states: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal and Slovakia. Inspired in an intersection of different streams of research, it examines the extent and the ways Brexit has impacted these countries, analysing their coping... Read more

Introduction: Small EU member states and Brexit

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira and António Raimundo

 

1. Coping with an EU and domestic crisis: Ireland’s approach to Brexit

Mary C. Murphy

 

2. Portugal’s strategic response to Brexit: enduring Europeanisation?

António Raimundo and Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

 

3. Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks

Juha Jokela

 

4. Brexit and Malta’s coping strategies: diverging shelters

Mark Harwood

 

5. Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies

Monika Brusenbauch Meislová

 

6. Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states

Kārlis Bukovskis and Andres Kasekamp

 

7. A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit

Kristijan Kotarski and Senada Šelo-Šabić

 

Epilogue—Responses to Brexit: insights from small EU member states and lessons for exits from other regional organizations

Diana Panke and Lukas Grundsfeld

Biography

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho, Portugal; and Visiting Professor of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has published extensively on EU foreign security and defence policy (CFSP/CSDP), and Portuguese foreign policy in several renowned scientific journals.