Notably, he has already published and participated in several conferences talking about the implementation of international human rights mediated via EU legislation and policies. Finally, the EU used deadlines effectively to get its way, whereas the UK walked into a series of traps.

Last but not least, if spy novels are your thing, it turns out even John Le Carré has written a Brexit book with his thriller, Agent Running in the Field. Brigid Laffan and Stefan Telle’s The EU’s Response to Brexit offers an incisive analysis of how the European Union has turned Brexit into an opportunity. Ahmed and Fahey have gathered an impressive array of scholars to uncover these questions, and some potential answers. The EU is the epitome of a globalised world: an organisation with a huge number of members, partners and collaborators, seeking to further common goals, with pooling of resources to address shared concerns. This once-in-a-generation opportunity to free the UK from the grip of Brussels saw egos put to one side and rivalries put on hold to push for a Leave vote in the EU referendum … Or did it?The book as a whole aims to engage with the methodology, lexicon and explicitness of analytical perspectives in relation to Brexit. But the effect of Brexit on the future of the EU and Europe’s wider institutional structures is carefully assessed. In this sense, it is an ideal specimen of Cultural-Studies scholarship, no matter whether all contributors would readily identify with this label or not. When negotiations opened, the media made much of a photo of Barnier sitting with a file full of papers on the table in front of him while David Davis had nothing at all. Part I brings together three social studies that reveal that Brexit may be the result of international nationalist narratives, and that the choice to leave the EU is already affecting Brits abroad and the future opportunities for British students.

a wide-ranging and thought-provoking tour through the vagaries of British exit, with the question of Europe’s fate never far from sight. Laffan and Telle’s book is both a definitive statement on Brexit-EU relations and a clear-sighted investigation of how the EU may cope with future tests, ranging from climate change to Ukraine enlargement. Beacháin has made good use of governmental papers and political party archives and he has conducted interviews with a wide range of Irish and British politicians. Contributors: Richard Bellamy, Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Birgit Bujard, Ian Cooper, James Dennison, Helen Drake, Federico Fabbrini, John Erik Fossum, Christian Frommelt, Roy H.Academics from various disciplines - historians, political scientists, literary studies scholars, etc. That said, Barnier may be an excellent haut fonctionnaire, but judging by the stilted prose of this “secret diary” he is definitely not an author. For an economic perspective, we asked economics professor Jonathan Portes for his book recommendations in early 2017, less than a year after Britain's momentous decision. One of the principal arguments put forth by Brexit supporters is that by freeing the UK from the stranglehold of EU law, the country will be able to expand its markets through increased bilateral trade and enhance economic growth. Rarely do we see thinking of the other side of a negotiation so quickly, while the trail is still warm.