Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe

Front Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Imprint......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Table of contents......Page 10
List of figures and tables......Page 13
List of abbreviations......Page 14
List of contributors......Page 16
Part One Actors and institutions......Page 38
1 Cameron’s European legacy......Page 41
2 Brexit and the improvised constitution......Page 47
The British constitution......Page 48
The intoxications of mandate theory......Page 50
The demands on Parliament......Page 51
The rule of law......Page 52
The plurality of the people......Page 53
Conclusions......Page 55
3 Is the EU ‘a crap 1950s idea’?......Page 56
Brexit and disaster-avoidance......Page 57
What disasters should we worry about?......Page 61
4 How British was the Brexit vote?......Page 65
The local story: Brexit as a British event......Page 66
The contagion story: Brexit as a boat on the global tide of populist anti-internationalism......Page 69
The EU’s many crises......Page 73
The eurozone crisis......Page 74
The migration crisis......Page 75
The EU governance crisis......Page 76
The impact of the crises on the Brexit process......Page 77
The ways in which the EU is structuring itself 
to conduct the Brexit negotiations......Page 78
The stances of the EU27 in the Brexit negotiations......Page 80
Conclusions......Page 81
Introduction......Page 82
The UK: an influential EU Member State......Page 83
The centrifugal trajectory......Page 85
The centripetal trajectory......Page 87
Conclusions......Page 89
7 Decentralised federalism......Page 91
1. Starting point: British voters have not gone mad......Page 100
3. Second message: Brexit weakens Brussels doctrine......Page 101
4. Battlefield: national elections......Page 102
6. Policies: the importance of borders......Page 103
7. The ‘We are Europe’ policy......Page 105
The road to Brexit......Page 107
David Cameron and renegotiation......Page 108
The economics of Brexit......Page 109
The clouds gather......Page 110
Germany’s lonely position......Page 111
Changing geopolitics......Page 112
Conclusions......Page 114
2017: a year of disruption......Page 116
Brexit and the EU in the 2017 French elections......Page 117
Sixty years of French engagement with the EU: at what cost?......Page 118
Towards a ‘political Europe’?......Page 119
Negotiating change …......Page 121
… Or change through disruption?......Page 122
Conclusions......Page 123
Introduction......Page 124
1. The EU and Northern Ireland......Page 125
2. Northern Ireland’s ‘hard border’ conundrum......Page 128
Conclusions......Page 131
12 Something new under the sun?......Page 133
Taking (back) control......Page 134
Undoing and reconnecting......Page 135
Incremental solutions......Page 136
Colonial legacies......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 139
Part Two Issues and policies......Page 140
13 What impact will Brexit have on the euro area?......Page 143
Relocation of financial services......Page 144
Refocusing the regulatory approach......Page 146
Strengthening of the euro vis-à-vis the pound......Page 148
Unlikely changes......Page 149
14 The Brexit iceberg......Page 151
An EU of discontent......Page 152
One market, many growth models......Page 153
The endurance of Member Statehood......Page 154
Conclusions......Page 156
15 The new crisis of ungovernability......Page 157
Introduction......Page 167
A Danish ‘adjustable bend’......Page 169
A Norwegian ‘anglers’ loop’......Page 170
Bespoke Brexit–Europol ‘tangles’......Page 171
‘Now you can’t break the ties that bind’......Page 173
Introduction......Page 175
Ending free movement?......Page 176
Free movement and citizenship......Page 180
Conclusions......Page 183
Introduction......Page 184
A positivist and doctrinal reading......Page 185
Devolution......Page 187
The external constitution......Page 189
Conclusions......Page 191
Introduction......Page 193
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)......Page 195
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)......Page 197
The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ)......Page 199
Conclusions......Page 201
The historical background......Page 202
Enlargement......Page 204
Between Europe and globalism......Page 206
Some practical implications......Page 207
21 A speculation on the future of Europe......Page 212
The Trump factor......Page 213
The EU faces Brexit......Page 215
A British alternative?......Page 219
Introduction......Page 223
Identity politics......Page 224
Policy structure......Page 225
Political participation......Page 228
Conclusions......Page 229
Guardian of the long term: what future 
for the EU after Brexit?......Page 231
Institutions: democracy of a different kind......Page 235
Policies: sustainability across the board......Page 236
Structure: flexibility without fragmentation......Page 238
Conclusions......Page 239
24 Losing control......Page 241
25 The heart of the matter......Page 249
Emotions and decision-making......Page 250
Emotions, motivation and mobilisation......Page 252
Emotions and political representation......Page 254
Conclusions......Page 257
26 Square peg, round hole......Page 258
Hayek’s trap......Page 270
Thatcher’s plot......Page 273
Fair Brexit......Page 275
Understanding Brexit outside of Britain......Page 279
Brexit as a ‘wicked problem’......Page 280
The future of Europe......Page 283
Notes......Page 285
All URLs were live at 2 November 2017.......Page 292
Index......Page 310
Back Cover......Page 314