Brexit and the problem of European disintegration
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Brexit and the problem of European disintegration. / Rosamond, Ben.
In: Journal of Contemporary European Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2016, p. 864-871.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Brexit and the problem of European disintegration
AU - Rosamond, Ben
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Brexit referendum provokes speculation about the likelihood of European disintegration. This article discusses how scholarship might deal with the issue of disintegration and argues that it should be thought of as an indeterminate process rather than an identifiable outcome. Within the EU system, Brexit is likely to unleash disintegrative dynamics, which could see the EU stagnate into a suboptimal institutional equilibrium. At the same time, EU studies needs to lift its gaze beyond the internal dynamics of the EU system to consider the disintegration of the democratic capitalist compact within which European integration has been embedded historically.
AB - The Brexit referendum provokes speculation about the likelihood of European disintegration. This article discusses how scholarship might deal with the issue of disintegration and argues that it should be thought of as an indeterminate process rather than an identifiable outcome. Within the EU system, Brexit is likely to unleash disintegrative dynamics, which could see the EU stagnate into a suboptimal institutional equilibrium. At the same time, EU studies needs to lift its gaze beyond the internal dynamics of the EU system to consider the disintegration of the democratic capitalist compact within which European integration has been embedded historically.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Brexit
KW - Disintegration
KW - EU
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 864
EP - 871
JO - Journal of Contemporary European Research
JF - Journal of Contemporary European Research
SN - 1815-347X
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 167133816