European Union

The Brexit and the Awkward Triangle: Britain, Turkey and the EU

Azriel Bermant and Gallia Lindenstrauss • Jul 8 2016 • Articles

Brexit might enable both Ankara and the EU to find a dignified face-saving solution over negotiations which have made little progress.

A Renewed Anglo-american Alliance? Putin’s Potential ‘Bregret’

Robert A. Saunders • Jul 2 2016 • Articles

Following Brexit, as Britain moves away from Europe (in spirit if not body), it will only become more ensconced in its Anglophone cocoon of geopolitical partners.

Brexit and China

Kerry Brown • Jun 30 2016 • Articles

If Brexit was a sharp sign of a global popular revolt against political elites, nothing about it will be reassuring to the Chinese government and Party.

Brexit! The Result and Its Implications

David Cutts • Jun 29 2016 • Articles

The UK’s exit represents a fundamental challenge for those advocates of an ‘ever closer union’ and EU leaders are conscious of the need to avoid further fragmentation.

The Brexit Fantasy

Moran M. Mandelbaum • Jun 28 2016 • Articles

In a Lacanian sense, the Brexit discourse invoked a fantasy return to a lost ‘golden era’ of British power while blaming immigration and the EU for standing in the way.

The Brexit Hangover

Stephen McGlinchey • Jun 26 2016 • Articles

If the EU is to endure, experts need to understand how to recapture the population and divert them away from an empowered, and sometimes dangerous, field of populists.

The Rationality Gap: Brexit and the Immigration Question

Phil Cole • Jun 16 2016 • Articles

If Britain abandons reason and principle, we will not be able to reclaim them and we will end up back in a place which we thought Europe had left behind forever.

“Green against Blue” – Reflections on the 2016 Austrian Presidential Election

Ruth Wodak • Jun 14 2016 • Articles

The Austrian election illustrates another troubling trend: a widening class and gender divide, and more specifically a struggle about the right values.

Making ‘remain’ the Cool Vote – Wolfgang Tillman & His Posters

Joel Vessels • Jun 6 2016 • Articles

What’s at stake in Wolfgang Tillman’s Brexit posters is the imagined community of Europe itself.

Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska • Jun 4 2016 • Articles

When Ukraine decided to postpone an EU Association Agreement in 2013, few would have predicted that it would lead to a prolonged conflict in Europe’s borderland.

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