146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a novel perspective on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, providing insights to the ways in that domestic concerns interact with European policy to produce sometimes counter-intuitive outcomes. The 2016 decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union was a seminal one for both political parties in the UK. This innovative volume considers the... Read more

Introduction - The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe 

Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Pauline Schnapper and Simon Usherwood 

1. Brexit and Trump: contesting new cleavage formation 

Chris Gifford 

2. Brexit, nationalism and disintegration in the European Union and the United Kingdom 

Ben Wellings 

3. Labour and the Interplay of Brexit and Electoral Politics 

Emmanuelle Avril 

4. Post-Brexit nationalism: challenging the British political tradition? 

Emma Bell 

5. Theresa May, the Brexit negotiations and the two-level game, 2017–2019 

Pauline Schnapper 

6. From UKIP to the Brexit party: the politicization of European integration and disruptive impact on national and European arenas 

Karine Tournier-Sol 

7. The post-referendum reconfigurations of conservative cleavages around black and Asian minority ethnic MPs 

Agnès Alexandre-Collier 

8. Northern Ireland and Brexit: where sovereignty and stability collide? 

Mary C. Murphy 

9. Disintegration reversed: Brexit and the cohesiveness of the EU27 

Thierry Chopin and Christian Lequesne 

Biography

Agnès Alexandre-Collier is Professor of British Politics at the Université de Bourgogne, France.

Pauline Schnapper is Professor of British Politics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

Simon Usherwood is Professor of Politics & International Relations at the Open University, United Kingdom.