Brexit has the potential to bring Ukraine and the UK closer than they have ever been before, vis-à-vis the EU.
The political history of certain Latin American republics is discussed as a cautionary tale regarding the current growth of populism within the European Union.
The Hungarian government’s, anti-migration and anti-EU, posturing persists as a populist strategy to maintain a firm grip on power.
The lesson of the election for the Labour party is that if they want to govern again, they need to unite again. The starting point is respecting Jeremy Corbyn’s brand of politics.
The task of people who viscerally fear and dislike nationalism is to make a positive argument on behalf of the shared gains of migration, free trade, and cosmopolitanism.
Borders both constitute and personify political communities, simultaneously symbolizing their cohesiveness and embodying their separateness from (and fear of) ‘others’.
If the past is any guide opinion will continue to swing as the effects of BREXIT unfold but these effects are as obscure as those of the decision to remain were in 1975.
With Britain departing from the Union, the EU finds itself in a position where everything points to a reinforcement of German dominance.
Brexit is a symptom of the same kind of inward-looking spirit that has characterised Norway ever since it refused to join the EU almost half a century ago.
The benefits of Brexit for Japan, which are largely geo-political, could offset its costs, which are mostly economic.
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