Slipping loose : the United Kingdom's long drift away from the European Union /
Westlake, Martin,
Slipping loose : the United Kingdom's long drift away from the European Union / Martin Westlake. - 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK's government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union. In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project. Rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union. --
9781788212021 (electronic bk.) 1788212029 (electronic bk.) 9781788212892 (electronic bk.) 1788212894 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctvtn1962 JSTOR
GBC275169 bnb
020556930 Uk
European Union--Great Britain.
European Union--Membership.
Union européenne--Adhésion.
European Union.
Referendum--Great Britain.
Référendum--Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--World--European.
International relations.
Membership requirements.
Referendum.
Great Britain--Relations--European Union countries.
European Union countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Pays de l'Union européenne--Relations--Grande-Bretagne.
European Union countries.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
JF497.G7 / W47 2020eb
341.24220941
Slipping loose : the United Kingdom's long drift away from the European Union / Martin Westlake. - 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK's government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union. In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project. Rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union. --
9781788212021 (electronic bk.) 1788212029 (electronic bk.) 9781788212892 (electronic bk.) 1788212894 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctvtn1962 JSTOR
GBC275169 bnb
020556930 Uk
European Union--Great Britain.
European Union--Membership.
Union européenne--Adhésion.
European Union.
Referendum--Great Britain.
Référendum--Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--World--European.
International relations.
Membership requirements.
Referendum.
Great Britain--Relations--European Union countries.
European Union countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Pays de l'Union européenne--Relations--Grande-Bretagne.
European Union countries.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
JF497.G7 / W47 2020eb
341.24220941